Innovations in Road Design

Dutch ideas for UK Roads

Adrian LordChartered Institute of

Logistics and Transport

Five Criteria

• Direct – least distance and time

• Coherent – continuous appropriate provision

• Comfortable – physically and mentally

• Attractive – to all intended users

• Safe

What is a cycle route?

• Gives sufficient advantage to attract would be cyclists

• Makes it clear that cyclists (and pedestrians) are valued travellers in the cycling town, in a modern city and in the 21st Century

New St

Successes – New Road

Brighton

7 Dials, London

Selly Oak

Digbeth

Cycle \Lanes

Paris

Challenges• Self explaining roads?

• Reconfigure whole highway – not just a ‘cycle facility’

• Legal issues – one-way cycle tracks, parallel crossings, low-level signals

• Driver behaviour – e.g. lane markings, junctions

Thank you!

Adrian Lord

Tel: 0113 389 6384

E: adrian.lord@sdgworld.net