Any event that will affect the road network must have a Traffic Management Plan (TMP) included with event application.
A TMP is a document that outlines all essential traffic and transport management matters associated with events on the road and/or road related area. This includes risk assessment, traffic demand and accommodation, traffic routing and control and provision for vulnerable road users and special vehicles such as buses and over-dimensional vehicles.
The TMP is to be developed in accordance with the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management. A Traffic Guidance Scheme (TGS), or a number of TGS’s, are often included within a TMP. A TGS is a document that outlines an arrangement of temporary traffic control devices to warn traffic and guide it around, through or past a worksite or temporary hazard.
If a Traffic Guidance Scheme (TGS) is required for the event, it must be designed and implemented by a person who is trained and accredited, through an approved training course, by a registered training organisation in accordance with part 4.9 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017. This may be a traffic management company, may incur a cost, and is to be in accordance with the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management and Australian Standards 1742.3.
Council’s Local Traffic Committee (LTC) will assess the TMP to ensure the traffic management requirements have been met and therefore the regulation of traffic is authorised. The regulation of traffic must be organised under the Roads Act 1993 and the use of traffic control devices implemented under the Road Transport Act 2013, and/or Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management.
Approval of the TMP is for the regulation of traffic only and the endorsement of the concept proposed for managing the traffic and transport network.
If a temporary road closure is required, this will incur an administration fee to cover the cost of advertising the closure in local newspapers and may attract inspection fees for the day(s) of the event. Please refer to Council’s Fees and Charges document for more details.
Please note to complete this application you will need to upload a copy of your TMP.
Further information relating to the management of traffic and transportation associated with special events can be obtained from the TfNSW document ‘Guide to Traffic and Transport Management for Special Events’.
View the guide here