Sector
Transport advice that gets your development moving
Arcvia provides developers, town planners, architects and building designers with traffic and transport advice that anticipates what councils will ask — delivered on your programme.
Sector context
For a development, transport is often the difference between a smooth approval and a stalled one. Councils and referral authorities scrutinise traffic generation, parking, access and servicing, and a weak or missing assessment invites objection, delay or a request for further information. Developers need advice that is commercially aware, gets the application right the first time, and keeps to the programme — not a report that raises more questions than it answers.
How we help
We prepare the transport evidence a planning application needs and anticipate the authority's concerns before they're raised: traffic impact assessments, car parking demand assessments and management plans, access design and swept paths, waste and active-transport plans, and signage assessments. We write to be understood by the planner and the council alike, and we coordinate cleanly with the rest of your consultant team.
Relevant services
Traffic Impact Assessments (TIA)
A traffic impact assessment is an engineering report that shows how a proposed development will affect the surrounding road network — and what, if anything, is needed to make it work safely.
ExploreCar-Parking Demand Assessments
A car-parking demand assessment works out how much parking your development actually needs — and provides the evidence to support a rate different from the standard planning requirement.
ExploreCar Park Management Plans
A car park management plan sets out how a development's parking will be allocated, controlled and operated — so it works day-to-day and satisfies the council.
ExploreAccess Design and Assessments
Access design and assessment confirms that vehicles can safely enter and leave your site — and designs the crossover, driveway or intersection treatment to make it work.
ExploreSwept-Path Analysis
Swept-path analysis uses vehicle-turning software to prove that the largest vehicles using your site can actually enter, manoeuvre and leave it safely.
ExploreWaste Management Plans
A waste management plan shows how a development will store and collect waste — including safe access and manoeuvring for the collection vehicle — as required for a planning permit.
ExploreActive Transport Assessments
An active transport assessment shows how a development supports walking, cycling and access to public transport — increasingly expected in planning applications.
ExploreBillboard and LED Signage Assessments
A signage assessment evaluates whether a proposed billboard or digital/LED sign is safe for drivers — the road-safety evidence councils and road authorities require for advertising-sign approvals.
ExploreWorking with property and development
We're commercially aware: we scope the right level of report for what your application actually needs, we're clear on fee and timeframe up front, and we keep the work moving. We frame our advice around anticipating and addressing authority concerns — never around promising an approval we can't guarantee. For referring professionals, we're an easy sub-consultant to coordinate with and to put your name behind.
Locations served
Servicing Victoria and Queensland. Queensland projects are supported by appropriately registered engineering capability.
Representative work
Have a project that needs a clear way forward?
Tell us about your development and we'll set out the scope, deliverables and fee.