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Business View Australia - November-December 2015
Local Area Traffic
Management Policy
The objective of Yarra’s Local Area
Traffic Management Policy (LATM) is
to manage the physical road space
available within city limits. For this
purpose, the city is divided into
twenty-one local precincts, each
one bound by arterial roads or other
physical barriers such as creeks or
rivers. A holistic approach has been
adopted that considers the entire
area rather than only specific sites
or isolated streets. In the future,
Local Area Place Making (LAPM)
studies are set to replace LATM,
as Council will be taking a broader
place making approach to Yarra’s
neighbourhoods.
The city’s 40km/h speed limit is an
important part of Yarra’s initiative to
control traffic and make the streets
safer for pedestrians. In view of the
fact that the speed at which people
drive motor vehicles is strongly
influenced by the design of roads,
Council has implemented a number
of strategies to deter motorists from
speeding.
It has provided several physical
devices
and
streetscaping