Reinventing our City Streets Presenter: Arjan Rensen

24.07.09

Arjan Rensen

ARRB Group

Email: arjan.rensen@arrb.com.au

Website: www.arrb.com.au

 

Presenter Profile

Arjan is a civil engineer with extensive experience in project and contract management in major infrastructure and urban development projects. He is currently the ARRB Regional Manager for NSW and ACT. Prior to the ARRB, Arjan worked as a Civil Group Leader with MWH Australia, and as Regional Manager (Eindhoven) with Tauw in the Netherlands, specialising in transport infrastructure. Arjan has also held positions with Delft University of Technology and several service companies focusing on the natural and built environment.

Presentation Synopsis

Building Cooler and Greener Cities is a call for change in the way we look at how we design roads, how to prioritise the various functions on the road and what activity we use the road for. It is also a call for more vegetation, pale pavements and less street lightning.

On 1 July 2009 a new series of AustRoads guidelines were launched. The development of these guidelines was managed by ARRB and all the road authorities in Australia and New Zeeland are committed to implement these guidelines. These guidelines can help to design a sustainable road; a maintainable and safe road that makes people behave safely and help society reduce its carbon footprint.

The challenge is to design a residential road where cars are ‘guests’, travel with low speeds and give priority to all other road users. The Guide to Traffic Management; Part 8: Local Area Traffic Management gives principles of standard engineering solution that can be changed and adapted to suit the new principles of a sustainable road.