Megan Bourke-O'Neil, Executive Director of Transport Integration at the Victorian Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure, presented at our seminar entitled 'Sustainable Transport in Victoria: Developing, financing and implementing a state plan', on Thursday 8 May, 2014 in Melbourne.
Held as part of our Sustainability Leadership Series, this seminar brought together experts and practitioners from across business, government and civil society to discuss how we can achieve a sustainable transport plan for Victoria and how it would be financed and implemented.
For more information about this seminar and the UNAA Sustainability Leadeship Series please visit www.unaavictoria.org.au/education-advocacy/masterclasses/
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Sustainable Transport Seminar - Megan Bourke-O'Neil, Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure
1. Planning for a More
Efficient & Sustainable
Melbourne
Megan Bourke-O’Neil
Executive Director, Transport Integration,
Department of Transport, Planning and
Local Infrastructure
2. Victoria’s Planning Strategies
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Transport & Land Use Planning
Transport Modal & Sub-Network
Plans
Budget
Process
IA Process
Reform
Agenda
Infrastructure
Pipeline
Planning System/ Precinct Planning
The vision for
Melbourne’s growth
to 2050
Overarching land use
vision
Effective management
of the growing freight
task
3. Melbourne’s population & economic growth is
placing ever greater pressure on our transport
system, particularly our roads
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4. Modelling of future urban forms for Melbourne showed that
a denser city with large centres tends to promote more
efficient & sustainable travel
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Few centres and constrained
urban fringe growth
Few centres and trend urban
fringe growth
Many centres and constrained
fringe growth
Many centres and trend urban
fringe growth
Urban renewal and constrained
urban fringe growth
Reduction in % Congested Roadspace
-30% -25% -20% -15% -10% -5% 0 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Base 2046
Increase in Public transport mode share
Less congestion,
more trips by
public transport
5. Plan Melbourne: promoting a more efficient
urban form
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Expanded Central City
& Urban Renewal
A polynodal city:
National Economic
Clusters
20-minute
Neighbourhoods
A fixed Urban Growth
Boundary
6. Plan Melbourne’s transport directions
Transport’s directions support the land use directions
1. Transform the transport system to support a more productive central city
2. Improve access to job-rich areas across Melbourne and strengthen
transport networks in existing suburbs
3. Improve transport infrastructure and services in Melbourne’s newer
suburbs
4. Improve local travel options to increase social and economic participation
5. Increase the efficiency of freight networks while protecting urban
amenity
6. Improve the capacity of ports, interstate rail terminals and airports, and
improve landside access to these gateways
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7. State-shaping new transport infrastructure and
network improvements were announced in the
2014-15 State Budget – road and rail
• $8.5‐11 billion for Melbourne Rail Link
• $2‐2.5 billion to upgrade Cranbourne‐Pakenham line
• $8‐10 billion for Western Section of East West Link
• $850 million for CityLink – Tulla widening (in partnership with private
sector)
• $685 million to remove level crossings
Together these projects will provide long term solutions to bottlenecks in our network,
reducing conflicts between routes and modes, providing alternate travel paths, and
allowing for connectivity between the Ports, airport and Melbourne’s CBD – consistent
with the long term directions of Plan Melbourne
This major program to be delivered over the next 10-15 years
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8. Victoria – The Freight State: Integrating freight
with broader transport and land use planning
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Source: Plan Melbourne 2013 Source: The Freight State, 2013
Increasing freight on rail –
including a metropolitan
intermodal system
Ensuring freight gateway
capacity
Managing freight delivery
in urban areas, to improve
efficiency while protecting
amenity
9. Delivering the Melbourne and Victoria of
2050 (1)
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Metropolitan Planning
Authority
Metropolitan Local
Government Sub-
regions
Regional Growth Plans
Engagement with the
Commonwealth &
Infrastructure Australia
11. Delivering the Melbourne and Victoria of
2050 (3)
Will require a stronger focus on productivity and funding and financing
reform
• Strengthening the focus on productivity enhancing infrastructure
• Reforming inter-governmental payments
• Removing barriers to private-sector investment
• Broadening alternative funding mechanisms
• Reducing the cost of construction
• Engagement with the community about how we pay for the infrastructure and
services we need
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12. Delivering the Melbourne and Victoria of
2050 (4)
Engagement with stakeholders, industry, community
Keeping a focus on reform
Commonwealth-State interaction
Productive engagement across agencies and government
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