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Browse Fact Sheets by topic: Access and Transport

Walkable neighbourhoods

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Walkable neighbourhoods have implications for sustainability because developments that are walkable reduce incentives to drive, conserve scarce resources, and lower environmental impacts.

Co-author: Leah Mason

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Employer liaison transport initiatives

  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Sustainablity Management
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This Fact Sheet suggests to residential development participants how they can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport by working with end user employers amongst others. Ideally new developments have viable access and transport options, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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Healthy places

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
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    • 4 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Our environment affects our health in many ways.  It can promote our health (e.g. by encouraging us to be active or to connect with other people), or it can damage our health (e.g. by exposing us to pollutants or to increased risks of motor vehicle injury). 


 

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Innovative transport modes

  • Access and Transport
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    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Although conventional road transport is an essential element in any new development, supplementary transport options can be considered to achieve the full potential of planned developments.   

 
 

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Public transport infrastructure planning, design, provision

  • Access and Transport
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    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Public transport plays an important role in our society although Australia is a car dependent society.  Public transport is far more efficient than cars in transporting large numbers of people and a high percentage of commuters in large cities in Australia travel to work by public transport.  Indeed, about 50% of school trips are performed using public transport in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.
 

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Tools and rating systems for land developers

  • Site Ecology
  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Materials and Recycling
  • Water Management
  • Energy Management
  • Sustainablity Management
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This factsheet showcases some of the existing tools that are available to guide land developers in achieving more sustainable subdivision or precinct-scale development. It is likely that we will see more emphasis on tools and rating systems for this scale of development in Australia in the near future.

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Mix of Transport Modes for Different Tasks

  • Access and Transport
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Travel patterns in cities are complex, varying with space, time and travel purpose. But all travel uses energy, utilises space and time (often in short supply in cities) and creates environmental and other externalities such as pollution, noise, accidents and congestion.

 

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Infrastructure

  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Water Management
  • Energy Management
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Infrastructure is the systems that make urban places function. It is defined in the Penguin and Macquarie Dictionary of Economics & Finance as ‘the network of services in a society which are essential for its cohesion and for the efficient functioning of the economy…’


 

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Mobility Management: Design for Active Transport

  • Access and Transport
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This Fact Sheet provides suggestions and is intended to advise how residential development participants can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport. Ideally, new developments have viable access and transport options are always a viable choice, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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Transit Oriented Development

  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Transit Oriented Developments, or TODs, are generally higher density, mixed use developments, located along major public transport (PT) corridors and generally centred on major transport nodes (bus and train stations, interchanges, etc). TODs are designed to encourage more sustainable transport behaviour through encouraging reduced reliance on motorised private motorised transport, encouraging pedestrian mobility and synergies between complementary mixed land uses.

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