Battersea Park Road Traffic Management
Project Section:
Transport Planning & Infrastructure DesignClient:
London Borough of Wandsworth & Transport for LondonScheme Objectives:
Jointly between the Transport for London’s Bus Initiative Team (LBI), the Congestion Charging Scheme (CCS) and third party consultants, it was resolved that the Prince of Wales Junction on Queenstown Road should not release more traffic per signal cycle westbound onto Battersea Park Road than the Queenstown Road junction could cope with.
Mayer Brown’s Role:
As Consultants to the London Cycle Network, Mayer Brown have been carrying out the detailed traffic engineering design for A3205 Nine Elms Lane - Battersea Park Road including bus lane proposals.
MB carried out the necessary modelling work to determine the length of the westbound bus lane necessary to bypass the queues associated with:
- Experimental diagonal pedestrian crossing introduced at the Queenstown Road junction.
- Proposals associated with the London Congestion Charging Scheme.
- Complex pedestrian crossing and bus/rail interchange requirements by Battersea Park Station.
- Local frontage and access requirements.
Mayer Brown demonstrated that proposals would not cause conflicts with the existing eastbound bus lane on the approach leading towards Vauxhall Cross, which was required to meet the CCS objectives.
Mayer Brown were also required to liaise closely with CCS modelling and traffic signal experts in order to meet the requirements of the Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems and a SCOOT analysis of the area traffic signals (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique).