Elevated highways – a solution to Brisbane’s traffic congestion?

摘要

The title “Elevated Highways – A Solution to Brisbane’s Traffic Congestion?” initially outlines the probable contents of the upcoming dissertation.Many cities around the world are experiencing worsening traffic chaos especially in peak hour travelling times. The construction of road tunnels, elevated highways, freeways and interchanges, bus ways, transit lanes, tollways and automated traffic systems are some of the methods that planners, engineers and governments have utilized to try to increase the capacity of the road infrastructure network toalleviate the congestion in peak hour traffic.Thus, the much debated topic of what infrastructure or road systems to construct in order to overcome the dreaded “peak hour rush” for any city reaching the capacity of their current road and transport network, is a never ending question and topic for today’s transport engineers, planners, governments, environmentalists and public to agree upon.I believe the answer lies within the creativity of the design engineers to conjure up new designs of infrastructure, with new materials, creativity and form that are environmentally acceptable and at a viable cost.Today’s transport planners and governments need to also implement acceptable systems of control to allow the traffic to flow as well as increase the capacity anduse of public transportation systems.My aim for the upcoming thesis was to highlight another type of road infrastructure solution that is affordable and could be designed to alleviate the traffic congestionthat is now evident on our roads in Brisbane, primarily in the peak travel times.Thus, my infrastructure solution of elevated roadways/highways strategically placed throughout Brisbane within existing railway corridors or over existingfreeways/motorways to increase the existing capacity had primarily been my predominant solution for the ease of the traffic congestion in Brisbane.Elevated roadways / motorways could be established within existing railway corridors and over existing freeways to minimise the traffic congestion on South East Queensland’s infrastructure as the population grows.