Public Transport
- Government of Western Australia. (n.d.). MAX information sheets. Retrieved from http://www.pta.wa.gov.au/max/Community/tabid/703/language/en-AU/Default.aspx#factsheetDownload the latest information sheets for the Metro Area Express (MAX) Light Rail project below - in particular, read the "Why Light Rail for Perth?" document.
- McIlroy, T. (2015, June 29). City light rail brings benefits, says report. Canberra Times. p. 1.Mid-size cities in Australia and overseas have recorded increases in property values and public transport use through the construction of light rail lines, a new urban planning report from the University of Canberra has found.
- Meredith, D. (2015, June 20). Sustainable future for city transport. The West Australian, p. MOT25.Volvo’s latest collaborative project, ElectriCity, has been described as “a city within a city”. The initiative blends research, industry and the community to develop sustainable public transport solutions for the future.
- Light rail has benefits for all in a sustainable future. (2014, August 4). Canberra Times. p. 5.Canberra can revive Walter Burley Griffin's vision, say Barbara Norman, Tony McMichael, Peter Newman and Will Steffen.
- Mees, P. (2010). Public transport policy in Australia: A density delusion? D!ssent, (32), 45-49.The article discusses Australia's public transport policy and disputes the notion that population density is directly proportional to sustainable transport share.
- Berry, J. Metronets a great idea, but it will fail unless it creates spaces people love.Retrieved from: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/metronets-a-great-idea-but-it-will-fail-unless-it-creates-spaces-people-will-love-20170518-gw7wnqIntegrated transport planning will be key to addressing many of the issues that are currently facing Perth including employment, housing affordability, car congestion and connectivity into the city.
Case Studies
- Driscoll, P. A., Theodórsdóttir, Á. H., Richardson, T., & Mguni, P. (2012). Is the future of mobility electric? Learning from contested storylines of sustainable mobility in Iceland. European Planning Studies, 20(4), 627-639. doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.665Planning for sustainable mobility is a complex and demanding task and the knowledge of how to trade off multiple, often conflicting, goals is not entirely clear. One of the most contentious and confounding issues in the context of urban planning has been, and continues to be, the place of the automobile within the evolving sustainable mobility paradigm.
- Gallez, C., Kaufmann, V., Maksim, H., Thebért, M., & Guerrinha, C. (2013). Coordinating transport and urban planning: From ideologies to local realities. European Planning Studies, 21(8), 1235-1255. doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.722945In Europe, the idea that coordinating transportation and urban planning is a necessary condition for setting sustainable urban development into motion has spread throughout academic and professional circles. While this concern is not new, the objectives underlying transport and urban planning coordination have deeply changed over the last decades.
Cycling
- McIlroy, T. (2015, May 1). Cyclists get electric bike spots on city bus network. Canberra Times. p. 3.Cycling advocacy group Pedal Power has welcomed moves by the ACT government to allow riders of electric bicycles access to racks on Canberra's public bus network.
- Department of Transport. (2016, January 8). Perth Bicycle Network. Retrieved from http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/activetransport/25722.aspThe Perth Bicycle Network (PBN) is the metropolitan component of the draft Western Australian Bicycle Network (WABN) Plan 2012-21, which expands and enhances the 1996 PBN Plan.
Parking
- Lucas, C. (2015, October 23). VCAT throws out 'deep green' building with no parking. Age, The (Melbourne). p. 2.If you're developing an apartment block in a narrow, dead-end street next to a railway station, bike path, car share service, bus route and tram line, should you be required to provide private car parking as well?
- Davis, L. S. (2010). Extreme makeover: Parking edition. Time, 175(21), 46-47.The article discusses how renovating old asphalt parking lots can create environmentally sustainable areas within towns and cities and reverse urban sprawl. Renovated parking lots can be created so as to provide an ecological function to the surrounding area.