Public transport developments in integrated transport and land use planning in the three largest Australian cities.

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Wadhwa, L.C.
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Abstract

The feedback relationship between land use and the transport system is well understood by transport engineers and planners. However, in the traditional urban transport planning process, the impact of land use on transport (travel demand) has been taken into account but the feedback of the transport system on land use has largely been ignored. The traditional planning process is based on the premise that capacity requirements of urban transport networks should be dimensioned to meet predicted demand as a result of changes in socio-economic factors and planned land use changes (1950s-70s). No effort is made to incorporate the effect of transport system developments on land use. However, the current thinking in the urban transport planning process emphasises an integrated framework. In recent plan developments, the emphasis is on sustainable urban transport and represents a considerable shift in the treatment of transport modes and land use in the planning process. Transport plans are becoming an integral part of the strategic plans for improving the quality of life and liveability in the cities. In this paper, the salient shifts in objectives and processes are brought out through detailed examination of the urban transport plans of three largest Australian cities (Brisbane 2002-16), Melbourne (2030) and Sydney (2010). These recent plans are based around the integrated transport-land use framework. The translation of the objectives of integrated transport and land use plan on public transport developments and infrastructure investment is highlighted. For the covering abstract see ITRD E128680.

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C 36175 (In: C 36168 [electronic version only]) /72 / ITRD E128687
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In: Urban Transport X : urban transport and the environment in the 21st century : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Urban Transport and The Environment in the 21st Century, Dresden, Germany, 2004, p. 63-72, 5 ref.

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