Manual for Streets

Practical Road Safety Auditing. S. Proctor, M. Belcher and P. Cook. ISBN 978-0-7277-2938-5 Manual for Streets. Department for Transport. ISBN 978-0-7277-3501-0... 

Residential roads should be designed to be safe for all road users. In 2007 the Department for Transport produced Manual for Streets which gives advice for designing lightly trafficked residential streets. 

The Manual for Streets suggests that quality audits should be carried out for new housing estate layouts. 

The IHT guidelines describe how Road Safety Audits may be carried out on local streets in relation to advice given in Manual for Streets. In this case, it is recommended that Road Safety Audits should be carried out as part of a comprehensive quality audit. The use of risk assessments is also suggested for schemes in local streets as a way of prioritising the safety issues identihed, and a methodology for such assessments is included. 

Department for Transport (2007) Manual for Streets. Thomas Telford, London, UK. Devon County Council (2006) Road Safety Audit Review. Devon County Council, Exeter, UK. 

The Transport Research Laboratory s (TRL) report Manual for Streets Evidence and Research (York et al, 2007) contains information on the effects of road and junction layouts on speed and road safety. However, the sites chosen for the study were aU in housing estates with average speeds under 25 mph and traffic flows up to about 1000 vehicles per day. Indeed, one site was eliminated from the study because it was significantly different from other sites, and the report states that The site had to be excluded from the analysis and therefore other exceptions could exist. Should a Road Safety Auditor rely on research in this report when looking at a design likely to be outside these speed and flow limits ... 

Manual for Streets 2 Wider Application of the Principles CIHT, 2010... 

Provides advice for designing non-trunk roads. The section on priority junctions confirms recommendations in the DfT s Manual for Streets. 

York I, Bradbury A, Reid S, Ewings T and Paradise R (2007) Manual for Streets Evidence and Research. Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthome. Report TRL661. 

CIHT (Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation) (2010) Manual for Streets 2 Wider Application of the Principles. CIHT, London, UK. 

The document Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007) introduced the concept of quality audits. Manual for Streets 2 (CIHT, 2010) has refined the idea, and recommends the process to local authorities carr3ring out schemes on their roads and streets. 

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