It puts forward a functional approach to addressing street priorities, addressing local context and wider street network strategic needs. It provides context sensitive street design advice for all modes of transport, based on a variety of street typologies. It provides advice of how and when to design shared streets in South Australia.
To support the advice provided, the Compendium offers over a hundred local, national and international examples of re-designed streets and makes direct links with current standards and guidelines applicable in South Australia. The Compendium aims to assist professionals and authorities grappling with the dilemmas of creating people-friendly streets whilst meeting the requirements of national standards and regulations applicable to street and road design. Development of the Compendium involved a number of information sessions and hands-on trial workshops that tested draft principles by a wide range of professionals.
The Compendium received the Planning Excellence 2012 South Australian Award from Planning Institute Australia in the category Improving Planning Processes and Practices.
