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Parking Supply Restriction
and Mode Shift at QEII
Medical Centre:
A Case Study
Jacob Martin, Senior Transport Planner
Cardno

2. Background

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Land Use and Location Context
Existing Land Uses
> Large health campus
> 36 tenants
> 8,000 employees
> 5,000 patients and visitors
Location
> 4km from Perth CBD…
> …but not on any high
capacity public transport or
vehicular routes

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Transport Provision Characteristics
• Historic abundance of on-site
parking and high private vehicle
mode share
• Traffic impacts felt along several
significant arterial connections from
the Western Suburbs to the
Freeway and Perth CBD
• Not adjacent to high-capacity public
transport
• Access to high-capacity cycle links
is relatively poor

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ROLE
Medical
Nursing
Academic
Executive
Allied Health
Hospital Support
Administration
Research
Volunteer
60%
18%
22%
ORGANISATION
SCGH
NMHS
Other
Transport Needs
Groups
> Staff
> Patients
> Visitors
> Volunteers
Staff include:
> Administration
> Researchers
> On-call
> Consultants
> Executives
> Shift Workers
> Nurses

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The Future: a Paradigm Shift
Development
> Relocation of Women’s and Children’s Hospitals to QEIIMC underway
– Plus other hospital growth to a total of 1,500 beds
> Growth in ancillary facilities – Medical research and education service
providers
Parking
> Long-term on-site parking supply supplemented by off-site parking to assist
with transition
> Agreed parking cap under the Activity Centres Policy of 3,600 staff bays
> Requires a 44% car-as-driver mode share (based on current staff profile)
– Significantly less than the unrestrained parking demand revealed in 2009 travel
surveys
Public Transport
> Short-term: High Frequency Bus
> Long-term: Light Rail

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Research Completed

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Projects Completed
> Travel Diary Survey
> Stated Preference Survey
> Travel Plan and Comparison
> Public Transport Demand Assessment
> Parking Priority Assessment

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Mode Shift Evidence
43%
11%
32%
14%
Mode Choice at TripEnd
Drive A
Carpoo
Public T
Walk/C
2009 2012

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Travel and Parking Behaviour

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Parking Management
Priority System
> Core hour staff
> Green Commuters and Official Car Pool
> Shift Workers
> Medical consultants
> On-call staff
> Work vehicles
> Cross-campus staff
> Commercial tenants
> Compassionate grounds
> Volunteers and
> Motorcycles
Parking Analysis
> Peak parking demand has been calculated at
1,600 bays for the existing
development…excluding core-hour staff.
> Approximately 80% of staff work core-hours
> 2,350 existing bays - but 2,760 bays consumed
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
1:00 5:00 9:00 13:00 17:00 21:00
Time
Site Attendance and Parking
Total Staff On-Site
Total Parking Demand

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Travel Behaviour by Time
Mode share by arrival
Mode share by departure
DriveAlone Carpool PublicTransport Walk/Cycle
52%
14%
24%
10%
Before 7am
35%
12%
38%
15%
7am-9am
52%
6%
28%
14%
9am-noon
80%
5%
7%
8%
Noon-6pm
84%
13%
3% 0%6pm-Midnight
DriveAlone Carpool PublicTransport Walk/Cycle
67%
0%
23%
10%
Before 7am
62%11%
18%
9%
7am-noon
42%
14%
36%
8%
noon-4pm
37%
11%
35%
17%
4pm-6:30pm
69%
6%
15%
10%
6:30pm-midnight

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Travel Behaviour by Need
> Core hour staff
> Afternoon Shift Workers
> Night Shift Workers
> Medical consultants
> On-call staff
> Work Vehicles
> Cross-Campus Travel
> Commercial Tenants
> Compassionate Grounds
> Volunteers
Afternoon Shift Workers
> Existing staffing ~ 530 employees
> Future staffing ~ 800 employees
Night Shift Workers
> Existing staffing ~ 165 employees
Future Peak Parking Demand at Current
Behaviour
> 4,140 bays, of which 3,600 are
provided on-site

14. Travel Demand Management
and Behaviour Change

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The ‘Stick’
Supply
> On-site parking provision dropped from 75% to 38% of staff attendance
figures during construction
> Off-site “Park ‘n’ Ride” available approximately 3.5km from QEIIMC
> Additional on-street, informal and ‘private’ parking
Price
> Free parking shifted to daily rate
> Daily parking fee still well below market rate ($4.80/day in 2014)
> Evidenced by high demand for visitors parking @ $3/hr
> Note that stated preference surveys showed:
– very little change in demand below $7.50/day
– 14% reduction in demand at $12/day
> Ongoing political pressure

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Parking Demand Management
The Priority System
Green Commuter Parking
> Preferential parking
> 200 permits issued in 2013
> Limited impact on demand (due to part-time staff and off-site parking)
Official Car Pool
> Guaranteed Parking (for groups of 2 or more employees)
> Only 100 cars registered
Ride-Sharing
> Car pool modes increased to 11% (approx. 700 employees)
> Significant growth of 260% as a result of TDM measures and parking
pressures

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Walking and Cycling
• Despite affluence, local employees (within 5km) drive only 36% of trips
• Walk/Cycle share for the closest 5 suburbs is approximately 22% compared to 14%
average (10% in 2009)
• QEIIMC has supported these modes through improvements in EOT; currently
oversubscribed
• Surrounding cycle network has not undergone any significant improvements
• Preference survey results suggested that the existence, rather than quality of EOT is
important

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Public Transport
QEIIMC is served only by public bus transport
Funding was provided by the QEIIMC Trust to improve service
> Route 79 (Perth CBD – QEIIMC) and Route 97 (Subiaco – QEIIMC)
> Capacity is shared by UWA but service was oversubscribed in peak, with
long queues despite high frequency
> Increase of 400,000 PT trips per year (32% of all staff travel)
> Ticket price subsidised by DoH and PTA (-45%)
Route No. First bus
(arrives QEIIMC)
Service Frequency (buses per hour) Last Bus
(departs QEIIMC)AM Peak Daytime PM Peak Evening
79 to QEIIMC 6:23am 6 4 - - 3:00pm
79 from QEIIMC 9:57am - 2 6 - 6:50pm
97 to Subiaco 7:15am 4 4 4 - 6:45pm
97 from Subiaco 7:08am 4 4 4 - 6:38pm

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Public
Transport
Supply

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TravelSmart Junction
Provides advice for
> PT
> Ped/Cycle
> Other transport
Prominent location
Passed by 30,000 people per week
Accessed 10,000 times since 2012

21. Conclusion and
Acknowledgements

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Thanks to:
The Cardno Traffic team for their hard work
QEII Medical Centre Trust and particularly Michelina Lawson for their assistance
during this project