Active travel contains an abundance of new terms. Here are some of the more common ones. The definitions are from the Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05).
Active Travel Routes (ATR) – The five Active Travel Route types as detailed in this Design Standard (refer Section 3.2).
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Active Travel Route Alignments (ATRA) – The spatial alignment datasets of the five Active Travel Route types.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Active Travel Street (ATS) – Streets carrying Main Community Routes (MCR) or Local Community Routes (LCR) where traffic management measures have been installed to achieve vehicle volume reduction to < 3,000 vehicles per day (vpd) and a reduction in vehicle speeds to 30km/h by design.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Active Travel Infrastructure Practitioner Tool (ATIPT) – A web-based user interface that provides access to spatial mapping of the Active Travel Routes for walking, cycling and equestrian routes (ATRA) as well as access to planning and design policies, guides and other information relevant to the planning and design of active travel infrastructure in the ACT. The tool is available for use by all stakeholders including government agencies, developers and consultants and may be accessed at http://activeinfrastructure.net.au/
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Arterial Road – A road with a prime function to provide for major regional and inter-regional traffic movements, usually with traffic volumes of greater than 6,000vpd (vehicles per day).
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Bicycle Boulevard (BB) – An on-road cycling facility used to implement the cycling component of an ATS. BBs are designed or retrofitted to streets to achieve, low traffic volume and 30km/h speed environment by design where bicycle travel is favoured over motor vehicle movements.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Collector – A street with a prime function to distribute traffic between arterial roads and local access streets. There are two categories of collector road:
> Major Collector – with traffic volumes generally between 3,000 – 6,000vpd which are access controlled; and,
> Minor Collector – with traffic volumes generally between 1,000 – 3,000vpd.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Equestrian Trail – A track or trail identified for use by equestrians. Equestrian trails are also known as bridle paths or bridleways and can be either naturally-formed or gravel-surfaced on sections of high usage.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Estate Development – A context of development that sets the standard for facilities, refer to Section 3.3 for details.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Facility – Any engineering or traffic management intervention (including traffic control devices) which provides safe, comfortable and efficient travel for ATN users.
Footpath – A minor path for use by pedestrians and cyclists. In the ACT unless designated otherwise, a path may be designated for pedestrians only if it conforms to the requirements of the Australian Road Rule 239 to become a separated footpath and signed accordingly.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Gifted assets – Infrastructure constructed by developers to be accepted by the ACT Government to own and maintain.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Key documents – Standards and guideline documents which should be used in the planning and design of active travel facilities. These are listed in Sections 2.2.3 to 2.2.7.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Local centre – A small retail, community and employment centre serving a catchment of one or two suburbs, typically providing for goods and services on a daily basis.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Minimum requirement (in Retrofit) – Where facilities are retrofitted as part of existing infrastructure, the Road Authority requires that the added facilities improve, or at a minimum do not diminish, the performance, function and safety of the facility. The minimum design requirements for Estate Development are to apply in Retrofit unless it can be proved to the satisfaction of the Road Authority that application of the required standard is not possible, in which case the minimum specified for Retrofit may be used.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Mixed traffic – Those parts of the street network where bicycles are not separated from traffic by physical barriers such as kerbs or visually through linemarking. In these situations, bicycles share the streets with motor vehicles.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
National Capital Authority – The Commonwealth Government Agency responsible for planning in areas identified as Designated Areas in the National Capital Plan.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
New development areas – Areas of land where the Estate Development context is to be applied.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Path – A paved off-road facility of varying width and surfacing, for shared use by pedestrians and cyclists. In some established areas, paths through underpasses or pinch points may, by necessity, be shared with equestrians. All paths in the ACT, including paths adjacent to streets, are shared by pedestrians and cyclists, differing from NSW and Victoria where cyclists over 16 or 12 years of age respectively are not permitted to ride on paths unless appropriately designated.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Path Priority crossing – A crossing type that includes Give Way or Stop sign control to give priority to pedestrians and cyclists over motor vehicles.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Principal Community Route (PCR) –A subset of Main Community Routes (MCR) that form direct links between town centres. There are routes that are to include route labels and branding.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Retrofit – A category of development that sets the standard for facilities, for details refer to Section 3.3.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Road Authority – The ACT Government agency responsible for ownership and maintenance of road and path infrastructure.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Road reserve – Land comprising the road and verge. And also referred to as the road or street corridor in this (Active Travel Facilities Design) Standard.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Roadway – The road pavement including the area trafficked by motor vehicles and the sealed shoulder if present or the area between kerbs if present.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Route – An alignment designed for active travel, active recreational travel or special needs connecting origins to destinations. See Section 3.2 for a full explanation of the five main Active Travel Route types and their various sub categories.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Separation – The separation of either pedestrians and cyclists or vehicles and cyclists. This may be by visual means such as linemarking or through physical means such as grade, median or verge separation. Where separation is not provided a path is said to be “shared” and a road labelled as “mixed traffic” (ie: sharing with no separation).
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Separated footpath – A section of path designated for the exclusive use of pedestrians by signage or pavement marking as detailed in Australian Road Rule 239.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Shared path – In the ACT it is legal for cyclists and pedestrians to use all paths unless signed otherwise. A shared path is a type of facility used in other jurisdictions where legal sharing of paths is not permitted. The term shared path is not used in these guidelines – see “Path” definition above.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Town centre – The retail, community and employment centre of a district, providing for higher order goods and services which are bought less frequently and for which customers would travel further. The Town Centres are Gungahlin, Belconnen, Woden and Tuggeranong.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Trail – An off-road facility for walking and/or cycling or horse riding with a surfacing to suit the general recreational purpose and its intended user group(s). May be coincident with, and share the same facilities as, a Community Route.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
User groups – Pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians are made up of different groups of users that have different values and needs. Pedestrian user groups include walkers, joggers, people pushing prams or strollers and those using wheelchairs, both motorised or non-motorised. Cyclist user groups include primary and secondary school children, family groups / recreational cyclists, commuters, neighbourhood / utility cyclists, and touring and training cyclists (refer AGTM04 Table 4.12).
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Verge – Public land within a road reserve between the road kerb and the property boundary also referred to as the road related area in the Australian Road Rules.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Vehicular cyclist – A cyclist electing to use on-road facilities within the roadway when off-road facilities are provided (typically a more experienced cyclist). A cyclist on a roadway is subject to different road rules than when on a path and this term is used to differentiate this context.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
Wheeled recreational device – Includes roller blades, roller skates, a skateboard or similar wheeled device.
Active Travel Facilities Design – Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)
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