Street types and junction

design
• Shows how to estimate the approximate traffic
capacities and carriageway widths of the roads in the
scheme, together with their junction designs

• Street classification Both the spacing and the detailed

design of junctions depends on the street types they
connect. Urban streets are classified by traffic engineers
according to their traffic role: the amount and type of
vehicular traffic they carry (I). To classify the streets in
your scheme, therefore, it is necessary to assess the
vehicle flows which each will carry

• Estimating vehicle flows In the case of major roads

linking into the main city network, it is necessary either
to carry out a traffic survey, or to obtain the relevant
flow data from the local highway authority. On streets
which carry only local traffic, approximate figures can be
calculated from a knowledge of the uses in the buildings
and land to which the streets give access.
Checking block sizes
• Way of checking which uses could be accommodated within the
tentative street/block structure already developed.

• The minimum size of a perimeter block depends on two main factors: -

• the private activities to be housed in the outdoor space within the
block: usually private gardens, service access and parking or garaging.
the form of the buildings around the block perimeter.
• Because these factors vary with different building uses, this Design
Sheet is divided into three sections, covering the following uses: - - non-
residential uses - flats - houses with gardens Each section contains a
series of handy reference graphs displaying the relationship between
three factors: the overall size of the block private outdoor space and
parking or garaging provision within the block characteristics of the
buildings around it - - - The graphs are based on rectangular blocks of
the form sketched below. The ‘average block dimension’ referred to is
the mean of two adjacent sides: (A + B) - 2 in the sketch.

• Perimeter blocks with non-residential buildings Worked examples The

graphs are based on continuous perimeter buildings. No allowance is
made for space between fronts of buildings and backs of pavements,
nor between backs of buildings and parking areas. If you want to include
either of these, the average block dimension must be increased as
shown below.