determining future traffic trends and compiling a comprehensive picture of traffic movement in the major population centres of the Colony.
9.51. Measurements of overall lengths and widths of more than two thousand private cars parked at various locations were made. The distribution of the lengths and widths found were then analysed and studied, and were used in selecting an optimum vehicle size for the revision of design standards for parking layouts.
9.52. Vehicular traffic routing in the areas bordering Nathan Road between Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui was studied in detail, and various alterations to traffic circulation were progressively implemented following discussion and agreement with the Police Traffic Branch.
9.53. A journey time study was carried out in the Star Ferry Concourse area as the first part of a 'before and after' study of the effect on vehicular traffic of closing the road bordered by Queen's Pier and the new City Hall. A small scale ‘origin and destination' survey was carried out at Hong Kong Airport to determine by which roads drivers were journeying to and from the Airport.
PLANNING
9.54. The Section was represented on a Departmental Working Party set up to consider various matters concerning the future provision of multi-storey parking garages.
9.55. Frequent meetings of the Department's 'Roads Planning and Improvements Committee' were held throughout the year, and the discussion greatly assisted the improvement and co-ordination of road planning.
DESIGN
9.56. Numerous designs for road and junction improvements were prepared; many were proposals for interim improvements of a minor nature that could be implemented at little cost. Schemes were also prepared for the construction of central dividing strips in sections of Nathan Road, Argyle Street, Salisbury Road and Connaught Road Central.
9.57. During the year, standard drawings showing the recommendations for parking of goods vehicles, the layout of turning arrangements in cul-de-sacs, and typical cross-sections for roads other than traffic routes, were issued.
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