Consulting Engineers
Providing client focused professional engineering services
Our Specialities
- Bridge Inspections
- Bridges and Highway Structures
- Buildings
- Demolition
- Expert Witness
- Flood Assessment and Drainage
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Highways
- Historical Structures
- Industrial and Process
- Nuclear and Seismic
- Power, Energy and Waste
- Rail
- Schools and Education
- Structural Surveys and Site Appraisals
- Traffic and Transportation
Traffic and Transportation
Wilde Consulting Engineers experience extends to specialist traffic and transportation engineering working for local authority and private clients. Typical services requested are: -
• Parking studies; consultation; reports
• Junction assessment, junction design and detail
• Traffic calming; 20 MPH zones
• Accident reduction, safety scheme design
• Formal technical and committee reports
• Rights of way improvement plans
• Cycling strategies
• Safety audits
• Traffic analysis, transport assessments, traffic management
• Infrastructure design for commercial, retail and residential developments
• Travel plans
• Park and ride studies
• Controlled crossing upgrades
• Signalised junction upgrades
• Bus corridors
• Congestion studies
• Traffic regulation orders
• Signs and lines
• Highways related development control
• Section 278, 38 agreements
• Traffic , pedestrian, cycle survey and consultation
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Relevant Case Studies...
Bus Stop Upgrades
• Standard bus stop carriageway markings
• Liaison with supplier of bus shelters
• Liaison with GMPTE
• Temporary bus stops arranged during construction
Crossing Upgrades
• Topographical survey of existing site
• Design feasibility proposal
• Swept path analysis
• Liaison with Greater Manchester Urban Traffic Control
• Design to comply with Best Value Performance Indicator (BVPI) criteria
Connect 2
• Improved links to Bridgewater Canal and Trans Pennine Trail form urban areas
• Directional signage
• Improved footways / dropped crossings
Various TRO / Parking Schemes
• Design and implementation of TRO sign plates using KeySigns software
• Setting out and coordination of road markings works
• Work carried out in accordance with The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002
• Design carried out to limit the number of new traffic sign posts required
Update of Controlled Crossing Line Markings
• Specification of minimal works required to bring each crossing into compliance
• Value for money
• Approximately 60 number of sites upgraded throughout the borough
Automated Safety Signs
• Advanced warning notifications
• Speed activated
• Programme specification prepared for each sign on a site specific basis
• Electrical connection (mains and/or solar)
• Public consultation
Trans Pennine Trail - Greenway Routes
• Works carried out on urban highway and rural routes / canal tow paths
• Specification of timber sign post martial in protected areas
Greater Manchester Urban Transport Corridor
• Design of civil engineering works
• Design/management of signage works (Key Sign Software)
• Tree protection
Safer Routes to School
• Safer routes to schools in Trafford area
• Implementation of shared use pedestrian / cyclist footpaths
• Footpath improvement works
• Formalised crossings for shared cyclist / pedestrian use
• Setting out on site
• Memorandum of Understanding documents to secure charity funding
Priority Junction Upgrades
• Raised plateaux junction for traffic calming
• Carriageway road markings
• Pedestrian crossing facilities
• Swept path analysis
Traffic Calming Zones
• Safe routes to school programme
• Raised speed plateau / cushions
• Electronic vehicle activated safety signs
• Upgrade of school crossing patrol sites
• Footway build outs / carriageway narrowing
• Regulatory signs and road markings
Cycle Links
• Links to Greenway routes
• Civil, signage and line marking works