MOREE SPECIAL ACTIVATION PRECINCT Assessment of refined land use – transport and traffic plan 16 FEBRUARY 2021 CONTACT GHAITH FARFOUR Principal Transport Planner T 02 8907 3904 Arcadis M 0450 548 212 Level 16, 580 George Street E [email protected] Sydney, NSW 2000 Copyright © 2015 Arcadis. All rights reserved. arcadis.com DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT MOREE SPECIAL ACTIVATION PRECINCT B3.2A - Assessment of refined land use Transport and traffic plan Author Wendy Hu Checker Ghaith Farfour Approver Nicole Vukic Report No B3.2A Date 20/01/2021 Revision Text B This report has been prepared for the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment in accordance with the terms and conditions of appointment for the Moree Special Activation Precinct Engineering Studies dated June 19th 2020. Arcadis Australia Pacific Pty Limited (ABN 76 104 485 289) cannot accept any responsibility for any use of or reliance on the contents of this report by any third party. REVISIONS Revision Date Description Prepared by Approved by A 11/12/2020 Draft GF NV B 12/02/2021 Draft Final – DPIE Comments GF/WH NV V i CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 1 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 2 1.1 Moree Special Activation Precinct ................................................................................ 2 1.2 Vision statement and mobility aspirations ................................................................... 4 1.3 Report structure.............................................................................................................. 4 2 STRATEGIC CONTEXT ................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Policy overview and analysis ........................................................................................ 5 2.1.1 Federal Government ......................................................................................................... 5 2.1.2 State Government ............................................................................................................ 5 2.1.3 Local Government ............................................................................................................ 9 2.2 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ....................................................... 10 3 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................... 12 4 KEY FINDINGS .............................................................................................................. 14 4.1 Road safety and crash history .................................................................................... 14 4.2 Active transport ............................................................................................................ 16 4.2.1 Current infrastructure and proposed expansion .............................................................. 16 4.2.2 Active transport snapshot ............................................................................................... 16 4.3 Buses ............................................................................................................................. 17 4.3.1 Local connectivity ........................................................................................................... 17 4.3.2 Regional connectivity ...................................................................................................... 18 4.4 Rail ................................................................................................................................. 18 4.5 Vehicle ........................................................................................................................... 19 4.5.1 Road network ................................................................................................................. 19 iii 4.5.2 Point to point ................................................................................................................... 25 4.6 Freight connectivity and journeys .............................................................................. 25 4.6.1 Agricultural output and freight patterns ........................................................................... 25 4.6.2 Road freight .................................................................................................................... 29 4.6.3 Rail freight ...................................................................................................................... 32 4.6.4 Air freight ........................................................................................................................ 36 4.7 Air services ................................................................................................................... 36 4.8 Mode share .................................................................................................................... 36 4.9 Summary of existing transport .................................................................................... 37 5 STAKEHOLDER LIAISON ............................................................................................. 39 5.1 Transport for NSW ........................................................................................................ 39 5.2 Moree Plains Shire Council ......................................................................................... 39 5.3 Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) ................................................................. 40 6 STRUCTURE PLAN ....................................................................................................... 41 6.1 Initial land use scenarios ............................................................................................. 41 6.2 Land use maps ............................................................................................................. 41 6.3 EbD Master Plan ........................................................................................................... 45 6.4 Final Master Plan .......................................................................................................... 46 6.5 Land use type and size ................................................................................................ 47 7 TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................ 48 7.1 Road network ................................................................................................................ 48 7.1.1 Traffic generation ............................................................................................................ 48 7.1.2 Trip distribution ............................................................................................................... 49 7.1.3 Trip assignment .............................................................................................................. 51 7.1.4 Road network performance and upgrade ....................................................................... 52 7.1.5 Moree Intermodal Overpass (MIO) location .................................................................... 52 7.1.6 Indicative road layouts .................................................................................................... 53 7.2 Rail and intermodal terminals ..................................................................................... 56 7.2.1 Northern intermodal terminal location ............................................................................. 56 7.3 Active transport ............................................................................................................ 57 7.4 Public transport ............................................................................................................ 58 7.5 Mode share .................................................................................................................... 58 7.6 Impact of future technology ........................................................................................ 58 7.6.1 Electric vehicles .............................................................................................................. 58 7.6.2 Hydrogen vehicles .......................................................................................................... 59 7.7 Air transport .................................................................................................................. 59 7.8 Livestock and Travelling Stock Route ........................................................................ 59 8 RECOMMENDED OBJECTIVES AND CONTROLS – MASTER PLAN ........................ 60 8.1 Private transport and freight mobility ......................................................................... 60 Aims ........................................................................................................................................... 60 Performance criteria ................................................................................................................... 60 8.2 Active and public transport ......................................................................................... 60 Aims 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