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Effective and integrated public transport CITY OF MELBOURNE - 2012 - TRANSPORT STRATEGY 60 CITY OF MELBOURNE, - 2012 TRANSPORT STRATEGY 61 CITY OF MELBOURNE > TRANSPORT STRATEGY Effective and integrated public transport Overview need to enable better east west Goal travel through the sub-region. Public transport includes rail, Public transport will be tram, bus, taxi, car share and bike Priorities the most attractive way share and, for regional trips, air travel – all cases of the use of a Planning public transport for to travel around the shared vehicle. Government plays growth municipality and the a major role through ownership, Over the next 20 years the inner metropolitan operation, regulation and municipality and the inner region Melbourne region. An coordination of these services. will see continued significant State Government is largely growth in population and integrated system of responsible for running much of employment. The main growth rail, tram, bus, taxi, car the public transport system, but sector will be knowledge/services. local government, as the land use Constraints on public transport and bike share will regulator, and the manager of the availability may significantly impede meet customer’s needs pedestrian network, has a key role labour productivity. Melbourne’s and be fully integrating the system with land productivity growth has been use and the walking component falling in recent years, in part due coordinated with the of each public transport trip. to these constraints on its transport municipality’s The City of Melbourne has an system. This sector thrives on the pedestrian network. It additional role, as it is at the hub agglomeration effects of high of the public transport system. densities enabled by very good will be possible to live Melbourne’s public transport transport connections. This growth and do business in network extends throughout will need to be matched by a inner Melbourne metropolitan Melbourne, with significant expansion and upgrade varying degrees of service. Most of the public transport system. without needing a car. of the train stations and tram stops are in the inner metropolitan Public transport within the region because much of the central city expansion beyond this region has Metropolitan train and tram been enabled and driven by car networks have traditionally usage. The inner metropolitan focussed on Swanston Street as region also has the highest the spine of the central city. This densities of residents and jobs. has reinforced both the public The municipality of Melbourne transport network itself and the has the highest concentration economic productivity of the of public transport services. city. As the city has expanded projects like the City Loop and Public transport in the inner road-based tram improvements metropolitan sub-region needs have improved the ability of the to provide for continuing high network to deliver and disperse employment and residential larger numbers of people to their growth, coordination with land destinations in the Hoddle Grid. use development, integration of all the public transport modes as Swanston Street plays a vital one system, increased capacity, role in the tram network, reliability and accessibility, and the bicycle network and for establishing a complementary pedestrians. Balancing these role with private transport, competing priorities has made particularly in addressing the the redevelopment of the street a CITY OF MELBOURNE - 2012 - TRANSPORT STRATEGY challenge. A significant opportunity 62 Sunbury Sunbury Eltham Eltham Caroline Caroline Springs Springs Ringwood Ringwood Sunshine St Kilda St Kilda Williamstown Williamstown Brighton Brighton WerribeeMelbourne 2010 Werribee Public Transport Index Dandenong Dandenong Very goodExcellent (25 - 32 points) Very Good Good Above Average Mordialloc Mordialloc Average Below Average Chelsea Chelsea Poor Minimal Below minimum service Melbourne 2030 Public Transport Index Average: 19.7 Average: 14.5 Frankston Frankston CoburgCoburg Coburg EssendonEssendon Essendon Heidelberg Heidelberg CliftonClifton Clifton HillHill Hill FootscrayFootscray Footscray CamberwellCamberwell Camberwell ToorakToorak Toorak Port Port Melbourne Melbourne V St Kilda St Kilda CaulfieldCaulfield Caulfield Melbourne 2010 Melbourne 2030 Public Transport Index Public Transport Index Average: 14.5 Average: 19.7 CITY OF MELBOURNE, - 2012 TRANSPORT STRATEGY Fig 6.0 Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) 2010. Source: RMIT. Dr Jan Scheurer 63 CITY OF MELBOURNE > TRANSPORT STRATEGY > EFFECTIVE AND INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSPORT exists with the development of suited to meet the demands of and 36,000 people use the the Melbourne metro rail project people travelling late at night. Federation Square tram stop. to create better tram connections In 12 years these numbers will and land use integration through Integrating public transport more than double, to 380,000. Southbank, to the west of the modes as one system CBD and the north of the CBD . Each of the public transport modes Reliability suits different types of trips. These Overloaded trains, cancellations Coordinated development of modes must be integrated into a and maintenance difficulties are transport and land use seamless public transport system reducing train service reliability. The development of urban allowing users to mix and match Melbourne’s large suburban rail transport and land use must modes easily to suit their trip needs. system is ill suited to providing be coordinated. Rail and tram This has started, with Public a high frequency, high capacity are space efficient and high Transport Victoria and myki service. The reliability of the tram capacity, making them ideal providing customers with and bus services is undermined for the mobility needs of high information for a single user by delays caused by road traffic density mixed development land perspective for trip planning and congestion and insufficient uses. These modes are also at payment, but we are only beginning priority at intersections. their most efficient when their to optimise the coordination of rail, Users rate reliable departure and high infrastructure and running tram and bus routes, the modal arrival times as more important costs are spread across a large interchanges and the incorporation than journey time. As customers number of trips over the whole of taxi, car share and bike share come to rely more on public daily and weekly cycle. directly into one system, planned transport its reliability becomes This relationship is evident in the developed and coordinated more critical. Improvements to region of the Melbourne’s network across government departments, reliability require improvements to extending out from the central transport companies and infrastructure as well as operations. city along the inner south-eastern agencies, and local government. corridor. This area has the highest A ‘one system’ approach to Accessibility density of stops, interchanges and planning and governance. A world standard public transport service levels and is also the region system in a dense, mixed-use city with metropolitan Melbourne’s Making our public transport provides users with good access highest effective jobs density. system more effective to a wide range of destinations at most times of the day and The economy in this region is also Capacity well serviced by high capacity week. The London Underground, Public transport capacity today roads for driving, but driving is a Paris Metro and New York cannot comfortably meet demand. space hungry mode best suited Subway do this. These metro To meet the future demand from to lower density urban areas. style systems provide business projected growth, especially at As this region’s land use density users, visitors and residents with peak times, the capacity of the increases, driving will become a a high degree of accessibility, system will need expansion and less effective mode. This trend is meeting most of their transport significant upgrades, including evident already in the municipality requirements and underpinning metro style separated train lines, and particularly in the central city. the economy in those city centres. new rolling stock, tram and bus An assessment of the accessibility Twenty-four hour activity in the City priority, and new tram routes. of Melbourne requires reliable and afforded by Melbourne’s combined The walking component of public 1 safe inter-peak transport options. rail, tram and bus network shows transport journeys also requires There is currently a clash between more capacity. Many parts of the hours of operation of many the pedestrian network are now 1 Spatial Network Analysis for central city land uses (restaurants, Multi Modal Urban Transport at capacity during peak times. bars and clubs) and the hours of Systems (SNAMUTS) 2010. More than 153,000 people per RMIT. Dr Jan Scheurer CITY OF MELBOURNE - 2012 - TRANSPORT STRATEGY public transport operation. Taxis day use Flinders Street Station and flexible bus transport are best 64 that a large east-west corridor into a system of separated metro Walking in particular is a critical through the inner Melbourne style lines, reducing travel times trip component of the public region provides users with above by 25 per cent, increasing service transport system and its ability to average accessibility. A world class frequency to no less than every service land uses effectively. The system should provide them very 10 minutes, adding new rolling locale of a station