Date, Time and Venue

February 23, 2016; 6:30 to 8:00p.m. at the HKIE HQ Seminar Room

Speaker(s) (if applicable)

Mr. Li Wai Sing is an Associate Director of MVA Hong Kong Limited, has over 25 years of experience in traffic and transport related projects in the territory, especially in the design and implementation of Temporary Traffic Management Schemes. He worked for numerous projects and studies in examining the traffic constraints and traffic impacts during the investigation, design and implementation stages of highway improvement projects, railway projects, sewerage and drainage improvement works in the territories. His expertise covers signal control design, TIA studies, design and implementation of TTMS. 

Programme highlight

The Contract No.: 1109 was commenced in July-2102 for construction of two MTR Stations at To Kwa Wan (TKW) and Sung Wong Toi (SUV), and approximately 1.8Km of tunnel for the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) rail project. In the Detailed Design Stage of the SCL Project, MTRC had conducted a Construction Traffic Impact Assessment (CTIA) to assess the traffic impact that would be caused by the construction of TKW. The CTIA proposed that a Temporary Traffic Diversion Scheme (TTDS) should be implemented at Ma Tau Wai Road to cope with the TKW construction, which consists of 2 major traffic diversion schemes as follows:

i. To divert all vehicles except buses, GMB and goods vehicles from the northbound of Ma Tau Wai Road to Kau Pui Lung Road via Chi Kiang Street.

ii. To reverse the traffic flow direction of Farm Road between Ma Tau Wai Road and Tin Kwong Road from one-way westbound to one-way eastbound in order to provide an alternative eastbound route in parallel with Tin Kwong Road, named the Farm Road reversal. 

Many traffic problems were encountered during the design and implementation of the TTDS, including the objection of vehicle restrictions on the northbound of Ma Tau Wai Road, and the objection of the Farm Road Reversal. The contents of this seminar would describe how to modify the TTDS to address the concerns of stakeholders, and the traffic engineering principles and methodologies to derive the relevant engineering solutions.

Medium: Cantonese

Registration details (e.g. contact and fee)

This seminar is free-of-charge and prior registration is required. The number of participants is limited to 80 and applications will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. For registration, please enroll to charles.so@aecom.com with our standard reply form. 

Enquiry details:

Ir Charles So (Tel: 3922 9870)

Shatin to Central Link : Temporary Traffic Management Schemes for Construction of To Kwa Wan MTR Station (TKW)

Nowadays all construction works that occupy road space are required to conduct traffic impact assessment (TIA) to assess the impact to all road users including vehicular traffic, pedestrian, public transport operation, good vehicles services etc. It is also necessary to derive temporary traffic management schemes (TTMS) to mitigate the problems and issues arise during the construction period, in order to minimize the impact to all road users in the vicinity.  

On 23^rd February 2016, LT Division organized the captioned seminar at the HKIE Headquarters. The seminar attracted an overwhelming response from the members with over 90 attendances. The speaker was Mr Li Wai Sing, Associate Director of MVA Hong Kong Limited. He has over 25 year of experience in the design and implementation of TTMS, he has been playing an important role in the development of TTM practices for Hong Kong in the last 25 years.

Mr Li presentation included the project background, TTMS for the construction of the station, detailed assessment on the impacts of the schemes, the mitigation measures and contingency plans. He also shared with the members the lessons learned during the consultation and implementation stages, in which he emphasized the important of maintaining good communication with the stakeholders was essential to the successful implementation of the TTMS.

On behalf of the LT Division, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr Li Wai Sing for delivering such an interesting and informative seminar.