Creating a Detour
Detours are a vital component of effective traffic management, ensuring that traffic flows smoothly and safely around worksites. MyWorksites makes it easy to create, map, and manage detours directly within your Traffic Management Plan (TMP), streamlining the process and enhancing the overall safety of your project.
Key Features and Benefits
Easy Detour Creation: Effortlessly create and adjust detours using an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that saves time and ensures accuracy.
Customisable Routes: Modify detour paths with waypoints to ensure the detour follows the most appropriate streets, maintaining traffic flow and minimising disruption.
Instant Feedback: Receive real-time updates on detour descriptions, distances, and travel times, giving you immediate insight into the detour’s impact.
Clash Prevention: Avoid overlaps with other planned works using the built-in feature to display nearby worksites and impacts, reducing delays and conflicts.
Comprehensive Documentation: Automatically generate detailed detour descriptions, maps, and travel times that are included in the TMP layout and PDF certificate, ensuring all stakeholders are informed.
How to Create a Detour
Detours can be created in two ways:
Save & Add a Detour: When adding impacts to the TMP extent, click the “Save & Add a Detour” button.
Edit Detour: Alternatively, after adding TMP extent impacts, click the “Edit Detour” button.
Once you select to create a detour, you will be redirected to the detour mapping page.
Mapping the Detour
To map your detour:
Drag the A and B markers to set the start and end points of your detour.
Adjust the route by clicking and dragging the blue line to move it to the desired streets. Each click creates a waypoint, allowing you to fine-tune the detour’s path.
As you modify the route, the detour description, distance, and estimated travel time are updated automatically on the right side of the screen.
If multiple detours are required, select “Yes” under “Is there more than one detour?”:
If the second detour follows a similar route, choose “Yes” to replicate the first detour in the opposite direction.
If the second detour takes a different route, select “No” and repeat the process for the new detour.
Avoiding Clashes with Other Planned Works
To prevent potential conflicts with other projects:
Check the “Show worksites in vicinity” box at the top left of the page. This displays all accepted worksites, impacts, and detours in the area that coincide with the same date range as your TMP.
Saving and Viewing Your Detours
Once you’ve mapped your detour:
Click “Save & Return” to go back to the TMP layout form.
After completing the TMP layout, click “Save Layout”. The TMP page will display a map with your detour routes, along with detailed descriptions, distances, and times.
The TMP PDF certificate will include a page showing the detour details and a map of the routes, ensuring full visibility for all stakeholders.