What are Traffic Management Plans and Why You Need It?

When you are organizing an event or possessing roadside construction, controlling traffic will be your major concern. In this matter, traffic management plans (TMP's) plays a crucial role. These plans are in detail process of handling the traffic. If you hire professional service providers, they ensure you well efficient plans to control traffic during your event or construction work.

What are TMP's?

Traffic management plan helps you manage risks and communication factors in your workforce. With this, you can decide how to control the high volume of traffic. This will let you create the flow of pedestrian and vehicle movements. A profession will create an efficient plan with latest technologies estimating your needs and desires.

Now, why these plans are required for traffic management? Here is the answer:

Ensure vehicle routes

Deciding vehicle routes is one of the major aspects of any traffic plan. Traffic controllers working according to the plan know well where to stopping, waiting and passing the vehicles. If there is a regular road nearby then professionals direct the vehicles to take other routes so that it does not hassle other drives on road.

Following signage

Signage is important to instruct drivers about zone parking or no parking. These are also required to limit speed and guide about other hazards. In a traffic control plan, signage and other equipment put on the right place to make the things clear for drivers. Traffic management plans guide the controllers where to put reflective markers and lines so that vehicles take right routes.

Decide pedestrian

Traffic plans also help to decide pedestrian crossing. So that people want to cross the road on foot do not feel hassle. These plans make sure that these crossings are demarcated. Plus it ensures there will be no barriers at the entrance and exit points. It also makes clear that crossing is safe.

Make routes safe

With TMP's you van ensure that all pathways and roads to routing to your event or construction site are safe and clear. Traffic management let all types of vehicle like bicycle, motorcycle, cars or any other to reach and park safely.

So, as above-said, TMP's are needed for the clear and smooth functioning of traffic created by a vehicle coming in your way of the construction site of attending your event. It ensures those vehicles are not hassled other regular traffic and go by line without any barrier. Plus it let on-foot people walk along with the pedestrians without any worry.

3 safety tips of traffic planning at a construction site

A construction site is often a hazardous place for workers, due to the heavy flow of vehicles and the large machinery. It also creates traffic in and near the construction site, troubling both the pedestrians and public transport.  A proper traffic planning should be implemented to ensure safety of the workers and also to calm the traffic near the construction site.

Following are a few traffic controlling tips to be executed for the maximum safety at a construction site:

1. Proper sign system
   All types of signs like regulatory, warning and informatory should be kept wherever necessary in the construction site. Signs must be kept outside the construction site to alert the motorists of any possible diversions. Check whether these signs are easily and clearly visible to the workers and public transport. Traffic controllers who are properly trained must be kept on the construction site to guide the vehicles and workers safely, thus preventing the unexpected outcomes.
   
   
2. Using delineators
   Delineators are the driving aids that are put adjacent to the roadway. Delineators like cones, barricades, barriers, etc. create areas for vehicle parking, material storage in the site and indicate the areas where heavy equipment is used. Also, using flashlights, pavement markings, post-mounted reflectors, etc alert the pedestrians and workers of any possible causes of accidents in the construction site.
   
   
3. Using safety equipment
   All the personnel inside the construction site should wear protective equipment like hard hats, highly visible clothing, steel toed boots, etc. Depending on the noise level at the site, proper hearing equipment should also be maintained. Workers have to take particular care, especially at nights by only wearing visible and reflective materials which are made of bright fluorescent colours.

Good traffic planning at the construction sites will avoid unexpected accidents and ensures safety of the workers and public transport. It's important to have the traffic planning from an efficient company which helps you to create a safety area around your construction site. First Traffic Management is popularly known for implementing the best traffic planning and signage system in Melbourne city. Get in touch with us today for the FREE consultation of the traffic management plan for your site.