National guidelines
There are a few key organisations that set transport planning, street design, active travel guidelines for Australia.
Resources include:
design manuals
policies
webinars
These resources contain useful policies and designs that can be used to communicate / demonstrate issues with current infrastructure, and provide guidance and inspiration for future infrastructure. Eg. best practice for bollard use, path widths and crossing designs.
Austroads
Austroads is the association of the Australian and New Zealand government transport agencies.
All their publications and webinars are available to view for free with an Austroads account that anybody (even the general public) can create easily.
Guidelines
The most important Australian guideline for active travel is the
Guide to Road Design Part 6A: Paths for Walking and Cycling
(You’ll need to set up a free account to access this file)
It’s quite a large PDF document but you can search for keywords to find what you need.
Webinars
Austroads offers a range of webinars on all types of road topics. The most recent active transport webinars are linked below. Webinars can be attended live, or you can watch the recording at your own convenience.
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Participants learnt about the different categories of interventions that can be used to increase active transport mode share. They also learnt how a prioritisation framework can be used to select interventions that are the most impactful in boosting walking and cycling mode share, while also considering the cost and complexity of different interventions.
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This is the second session in a three-part webinar series to present the outcomes of the Austroads project “Prioritising Active Transport”. This webinar builds on the first webinar by focusing on the types of infrastructure interventions that can be used to increase active transport mode share.
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Presenters Dr Elliot Fishman and Andrew Somers focus on various policies and other non-infrastructure interventions that can be used to increase levels of active travel. These interventions include measures such as speed reduction, policies to integrate public transport with walking and cycling, pricing measures for motor vehicle use and parking and shared micromobility programs.
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This webinar focuses on Canberra's first Gender Sensitive Urban Design Guidelines.
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From Barcelona’s Superblocks to women’s cycling rates in Copenhagen, through to building women’s autonomy into the business case, this webinar’s presenter Estelle Grech shares key insights from her Churchill Fellowship where she travelled to 14 cities around the globe to research how to design cities for women in girls.
Cycling and Walking Australia and New Zealand (CWANZ)
Cycling and Walking Australia and New Zealand (CWANZ) is the Australasian lead reference group for walking and bike riding on transport and recreation networks.
Vision - Safe and connected walking and cycling networks and neighbourhoods for all
Mission - Working collaboratively to recommend strategies and actions that make walking and cycling an easy choice and a normal part of everyday life
They have a range of documents on their website from across Australia and New Zealand, as well as webinars available to assist the community. Their resources also include an archive of the documents produced during the time of being the Australian Bicycle Council (up to 2018).
