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Active Travel Design Guide

The Active Travel Design Guide offers design principles for active travel and green infrastructure development. This includes walking and cycling facilities, intersections, street greening and shared streets.

Building on past successes, the guide helps designers create solutions for active travel. It aims to inform the designs of future projects to simplify the process and promote uniformity in outcomes across the state.

Why it matters

Prioritising active travel modes at the design stage is key. Doing this helps to create urban environments that are more pleasant and liveable for everyone.

Active travel means getting about in a physically active way, like walking or cycling.

Encouraging more active travel brings many benefits, including:

  • improving public health and air quality
  • increasing road safety
  • creating better community connections
  • reducing carbon emissions.

Active travel has great environmental and health benefits for communities. This is why we must consider walking and cycling in all our projects.

Applying the guide

This guide is relevant for projects of all sizes. This can range from new suburbs to major road and rail projects. You can use it for smaller infrastructure improvements. It also applies to state and local government roads.

When planning and designing new projects, we put our strategies into action by:

  • encouraging and supporting green spaces, walking and cycling
  • ensuring easy access to public transport stops, stations and interchanges.

Developing the guide

We developed the guide in consultation with:

  • South Australian Government agencies
  • industry bodies
  • stakeholder groups.

We will work together with state government agencies and local councils to deliver resulting projects.