The General Roads Authority Saudi Road Code has set specific requirements for parking near sidewalks to enhance traffic safety. These standards are part of ongoing efforts to improve the quality of life and achieve the highest levels of safety and efficiency in the Kingdom's road network. These requirements include taking into account the classification and function of the road, preserving the urban appearance of the city, reducing visual distortion, ensuring that parking lots do not affect safety or impede the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, and do not impede the access of emergency vehicles and services to entrances and exits, in addition to providing additional or alternative dedicated parking lots if they are insufficient, and adapting parking lots to the nature of the area to meet its needs.
Saudi Road Code
The Saudi Road Code is a comprehensive technical reference for all entities responsible for roads in the Kingdom, including ministries, city development authorities, regional secretariats, municipalities of cities and governorates and others, with the aim of enabling these entities to access the information necessary for the planning, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of all types of roads in the Kingdom, taking into account environmental aspects and requirements for self-driving vehicles, along with guidelines, drawings, procedures and checklists for all road networks in the Kingdom, to achieve the minimum acceptable levels of quality, safety, security, economic efficiency and sustainability.
The Saudi Road Code is a comprehensive technical reference for all entities responsible for roads in the Kingdom, including ministries, urban development authorities, regional secretariats, municipalities of cities and governorates, and others.</p It is noteworthy that the General Authority for Roads has been entrusted with the tasks of supervising and regulating the road sector by setting the necessary policies and legislation, including the launch of the Saudi Road Code.
The code was introduced on a pilot basis until the end of last year, while its application was activated for all government agencies at the beginning of this year, and private agencies in the middle of this year, within the framework of achieving the targets of the road sector strategy that focuses on safety, quality and traffic density, and aims to reach the sixth place in the world in road quality by 2030.
