Project summary

The SA Regional Road Priority Project report has been completed and presented to SA Regional Organisation of Councils. A “Login” link to access QGIS Cloud has been provided to all Regional LGAs for distribution to their members of their region’s roads or transport advisory group and/or their region’s board.  SAROC have approved the release of the HDS Australia/Legatus Group’s SA Regional Road Priority Project report; and noted that a working group will be established comprising representatives from LGA Secretariat, the Department for Industry and Transport, the Local Government Transport Advisory Panel and Regional LGA EOs to assist with reviewing the recommendations.

Project outcomes and outputs

All regions now have access to the SAROC map for a holistic view of the state regional road network.  In addition, these accounts will also provide access to the respective Regional LGA database, which all have the same name as that Regional LGA’s account. In addition to the “Road Classifications” layer, each Regional LGA database also contains a “Road Differentiators” layer, which has been initially populated with a “Responsibility” sub-layer. This defines each road in the regional network as either DIT (state managed), Local (council managed) or Other (e.g. national parks roads, private property roads).

The layer has been set up in response to queries received during the SAROC online demonstration last Wednesday and the Legatus Group Roads Forum demonstration last Thursday.  The layer also demonstrates the capability of this map-based solution to create other sub-layers covering attributes stored in the database, such as “sealed” vs “unsealed”, “rural” vs “township” or “road purpose”, thereby potentially fully replacing published maps in each Region’s Transport Plan with a digital version.