South East Queensland Regional Plan 2017 Shapingseq
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ShapingSEQ background paper 1: connect theme Page 2 of 50 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 5 Purpose ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Theme defined ........................................................................................................................... 5 Relationship with other themes................................................................................................ 5 Context ............................................................................................................................... 7 Related specific issues research ............................................................................................. 7 Other government strategies .................................................................................................... 7 Current and previous regional plans ....................................................................................... 8 Related infrastructure planning and plans .............................................................................. 9 The future growth task ............................................................................................................. 9 Linking land use and infrastructure ........................................................................................ 10 Transport in SEQ ..................................................................................................................... 10 Transport investment .............................................................................................................. 11 Evidence and issues........................................................................................................ 13 Measures of travel trends ....................................................................................................... 13 Share of travel by transport mode .......................................................................................... 13 Distances travelled, trip duration and travel speeds ............................................................... 15 Moving people by public transport ........................................................................................ 19 Barriers to increased public transport use .............................................................................. 20 Public Transport Infrastructure ............................................................................................... 24 Active transport ....................................................................................................................... 26 Role and function ................................................................................................................... 26 Well connected networks ....................................................................................................... 27 Principal Cycle Network Plan ................................................................................................. 29 Relationship between active transport and public transport .................................................... 30 Freight demands ..................................................................................................................... 32 Future freight challenges and opportunities ........................................................................... 33 Increasing congestion impacting on national significant freight routes.................................... 34 Integrated planning and prioritisation of freight infrastructure ................................................. 34 Movement of freight volumes ................................................................................................. 35 Evolving technologies changing the way we move ................................................................. 35 Risks around rail freight ......................................................................................................... 36 Digital communications .......................................................................................................... 36 Other urban infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 37 Sewer .................................................................................................................................... 37 Water supply .......................................................................................................................... 38 Energy ................................................................................................................................... 39 Social infrastructure................................................................................................................ 39 Policy directions in ShapingSEQ ................................................................................... 40 Approach to managing growth ............................................................................................... 40 Spare infrastructure capacity ................................................................................................. 40 Autonomous vehicles and related changes .......................................................................... 43 Cross River Rail ....................................................................................................................... 44 Other future public transport trunk corridors and services ................................................. 44 Catalytic infrastructure funding ............................................................................................. 47 Best practice planning ............................................................................................................ 47 Region-shaping infrastructure ............................................................................................... 47 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 49 ShapingSEQ background paper: connect theme Page 3 of 50 List of tables Table 1: Significant transport infrastructure projects 2000–2016 ................................................... 11 Table 2: Various types of bus priority ............................................................................................ 25 Table 3: Typologies of active transport .......................................................................................... 26 List of figures Figure 1: South East Queensland region ........................................................................................ 5 Figure 2: Mode share for all trips ................................................................................................... 13 Figure 3: Mode share for journey to work trips .............................................................................. 13 Figure 4: Public transport patronage ............................................................................................