COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

School Traffic management plan checklist

1. Understand your school traffic environment

You can’t implement anything without first understanding how traffic moves around your school. To
understand this, you’ll need data. There are a few factors to consider here:

1. The size of the school

2. The school’s location and nature of the roads surrounding it
3. Number of people who walk, ride, drive or catch the bus into school
4. Local traffic environment

Compiling data on these factors will inform what strategies you implement and how.

2. Ensure proper wayfinding

Intuitive wayfinding is a hallmark of any well-thought-through school traffic management plan. When
people (especially stressed-out parents) can easily navigate in and around the school campus, the less
congested the roads become.

Wayfinding should be universally accessible. That means easy-to-read signage for all age groups, and
designed with the correct Australian standards in mind.

3. Install speed humps in the right places

Pick-up and drop-off zones, high-traffic areas, and roads with adjacent footpaths leading into and
throughout the school should be integrated with speed bumps to ensure speed limit compliance and
general caution. Various types of speed humps exist to encourage different driving styles.

4. Enforce School Zone speed limits and signs

School zone speed limits and signs should be adapted to your school surroundings. Ensuing the signs are
positioned to account for traffic movements that might occur further outside the school parameters is
essential. Look back to your traffic movement data to inform exactly where these signs should be
positioned. It could be worth reaching out to the local council for more ideas on how to enforce local speed
limits if this is an issue you’re dealing with on a regular basis.
5. Install safety bollards around key walkways and infrastructure
Ensuring the safety of students and the wider public is essential – and safety bollards play a big role in
creating safe walkways in heavy traffic areas, and can prevent injury or death. Installing safety
bollards along critical sections of road where high pedestrian activity, or critical infrastructure is in close
contact with moving cars will greatly improve your safety management system.

6. Stock removable bollards and traffic cones for special events

It’s always good to stock several removable bollards and traffic cones to ensure traffic compliance on
special occasions such as graduation day, open days, or school festivals where increased traffic and
parking demands can put the safety of students and others at a higher risk.

7. Meet your disabled parking obligations

Disabled parking is an important part of your traffic safety plan. Without adequate disabled parking, you
run the risk of heavy fines and endangering people in the community. The exact number of disabled
parking bays required will depend on the size of the school, and other local factors.

Innovations that are worthy to be adopted and applied to our locality:

Ensure proper wayfinding
Meet your disabled parking obligations
Stock removable bollards and traffic cones for special events
Enforce School Zone speed limits and signs