Active Travel Design Guide

The Design Guide offers technical design recommendations for walking links, bicycle links, intersections and street greening. It builds on previous successes and achievements and will inform designs for future projects.

The Design Guide has been developed in consultation with South Australian Government agencies, industry bodies and stakeholder groups. Resulting projects will be delivered in collaboration with state government agencies and local councils.

Read the Active Travel Design Guide (PDF, 20517 KB).

About Active Travel

Active travel means getting about in a way that makes you physically active, like walking or riding a bike.

Encouraging more active travel brings lots of benefits including improving public health and air quality, increased road safety, better community connectivity, and reduced carbon emissions.

Active travel has significant environmental and health benefits for communities which is why we must consider walking and cycling in all projects, ranging from the development of major road and rail projects and new suburbs to relatively small infrastructure improvements.

The Department is putting into action strategies that encourage and support green spaces, walking and bike riding when planning and designing new projects, including access to public transport stops, stations and interchanges. By prioritising active travel modes during the design stage of projects we can make urban environments more pleasant and liveable for everyone.