Managing Traffic Management Plans (TMPs)
Traffic Management Plans (TMPs) are essential for ensuring the safe management of traffic while work or activities are carried out in the road corridor, including roads, footpaths, or berms.
Each TMP outlines the design, implementation, maintenance, and removal of temporary traffic management (TTM) measures for a specific worksite.
TMPs are typically submitted to the same Road Controlling Authority (RCA) as the linked Worksite, but this can be changed if needed. In some cases, multiple RCAs must be included in the application.
Key Features and Benefits
Linked Worksite and TMPs: Manage multiple TMPs for a single Worksite from one place, ensuring efficient planning and tracking.
Flexibility: Submit TMPs to the appropriate RCA and add multiple RCAs when required.
Clear Workflow: Easily create, revise, and submit TMPs directly from the Worksite View, keeping all traffic management plans centralised.
Creating and Managing TMPs
Once a Project and Worksite have been created, you can start designing a TMP for the planned work. A Worksite can have multiple TMP applications, all accessible from the Traffic Management Plans panel on the Worksite View page. Here, you can view linked TMPs, add new ones, or revise existing applications.
It is important to understand the overall structure of a TMP within myWorksites:
A TMP holds information about the RCA and the different parties who may have permissions to contribute to or edit details within the TMP.
A TMP has one or more Layouts. Layouts hold the detailed information about the associated impacts, and the dates, days and times relevant and detour routes. For activities that require more comprehensive temporary traffic management, multiple Layouts are often needed.
A Layout can contain one more Impacts and associated Detours. For high quality situational awareness for all parties interested in the road corridor (other contractors, traffic operations, road users), define your Impacts and Detours accurately.
A Layout can then have a Deployment, which signals exactly when the specific Layout is in effect.
Adding a New TMP
To add a new TMP:
Click the 'Add New TMP' button in the Traffic Management Plans panel. You will be redirected to a draft of your new TMP.
On this page, details of the parent Project and Worksite will be displayed. In the TMP Details panel, you can change the Primary RCA or add additional RCAs to your submission.
Next, click 'Add Layout' to create a new layout for the TMP.
Creating a Layout
Layouts specify when and where the work will take place, as well as its impact. Multiple layouts can be included in a single TMP for simultaneous approval.
The Layout details required include:
Specific days of the week and times for when a Layout will be active
Specification of the Impacts to road users, e.g.:
the footpath will be affected
parking restrictions will be implemented
full road closure in place
whether the temporary traffic management will be deployed continuously (select Yes if cones remain in place over multiple days, or No if they are redeployed daily), and details on traffic impacts.
Detailed geospatial mapping of the Impacts to the transport network (lanes, footpaths)
If required, defining up to two Detour Routes per Layout
Addition of layout methodology files
Defining Traffic Impacts
In the layout editing screen, there is a section on Impacts (screenshot below)
Defining the Traffic Impacts is a valuable step when developing your TMP. The data is extremely useful to parties managing the transport network operations, as well as informing the public & other users of the roads where the network will be impacted, and how.
Defining Traffic Impacts can be labour intensive. It's important to understand your RCA requirements on how much data is necessary to be captured in order to provide value to the RCA and road-users.
Geospatial data capture of Traffic Impacts
To capture network and lane level data of your Impacts, use the 'Edit layout extent' which will bring you to a full map view.
How to define Impacts:
The map will automatically zoom you to your Worksite extent (blue polygon)
Click on the section of the road network to start to define your Impacts (the system will automatically find the nearest section of road, and put an A and B marker)
Drag the A & B markers to represent the relevant sections of the network (note: you can click to a different road if the initially selected section is not correct)
Using the diagram on the right side, click on the coloured highlighted lanes to cycle through three settings:
Green - open
Orange - capacity reduced
Black - closed
Note: you can also click the grey-hatched footpath and cycle through the same options
'Save Impact'. If you only need one section of network, you can 'Save and return'
If you need to define additional sections of the network, click to another part of the road network and repeat the steps until you have sufficiently captured your Impacts in relation to this particular Layout.
A & B markers will be unable to extend beyond an intersection, or where the road/number of lanes changes. You will need to save the Impact and then click on the next part of the network to continue defining Impacts.
More detailed instructions are available by clicking 'View Instructions' on the page.
Finalising the Layout
Once all information is entered:
Click the 'Done' button in the bottom right corner to return to the Layout page.
Review all fields, then click 'Update Layout' to save changes.
Submit the TMP by clicking the 'Submit' button. Note that the linked Worksite application must be submitted separately for the Worksite to be processed.
Scheduling Deployments on a Layout
Deployments can be scheduled on a per-layout basis. To schedule a Deployment, go to the TMP Overview screen, find the Layout you want, and 'Schedule a deployment'. See screenshot below.
Note: Only Accepted TMPs can have scheduled deployments.
Different organisation for Worksite and TMP
When a Worksite (Corridor Access Request / Work Access Permit) is managed by a different organisation to who will be managing (and submitting) the TMP, you need to ensure the appropriate organisation creates the TMP.
Firstly, the Applicant of the Worksite needs to add the organisation/party to the Worksite as a Contact (Traffic Management type) to enable them to easily find the Worksite. When they are in the Worksite overview screen, they can Add a TMP to that Worksite.
Once a TMP exists, the creator of the TMP can assign additional organisations to have permissions to edit the TMP (e.g. adding/removing/updating layouts/deployments). This can be done from the TMP overview screen under the 'TMP Permissions' section.
Worksite Notices
Any notices issued for a Worksite (such as Work Start/Complete, Non-conformance, or Stop Work) will be displayed in the Comments, Files, and Notices section of both the Worksite and all associated TMPs.