Projects

This Austroads project develops a practical toolkit for practitioners applying the Movement and Place framework on Australian road networks. The intent of the framework is straightforward — recognise that streets serve both movement (people and goods passing through) and place (people staying, exchanging, and spending time) — but translating it into infrastructure decisions in projects bidding for limited capital has been inconsistent across jurisdictions. The toolkit gives engineers, urban designers and planners a common language, a classification matrix tied to land-use context, and worked examples from urban, suburban and rural contexts.

The deliverables include a classification guide, design checklists for each movement-place quadrant, a stakeholder-engagement playbook, and a set of intervention case studies covering main-street pedestrianisation, regional town centres, suburban arterial corridors, and rural through-roads. The toolkit is being developed iteratively with input from all jurisdictions and includes a feedback loop so practitioners can submit field experience back into the methodology. A pilot release is targeted for early 2025 with a national launch following peer review.