Making public transport work in Melbourne

People and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 49-59

  McCloskey, David ^a   Birrell, Bob ^a   Yip, Rose ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; COMMUTING; HUB AND SPOKE NETWORK; JOURNEY TO WORK; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; WALKING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 70350639164     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Melbourne 2030: A Planning Update, Factsheet, Victoria in Future 2008-population projections
2. Department of Planning and Community Development, Melbourne 2030: A planning update-Melbourne@5 million, December 2008, p. 18
3. R. Moodie, D. Whitney, M. Wright and A. McAfee, Melbourne 2030: Audit Expert Group Report, Department of Planning and Community Development, March 2008, p. 53
4. For example, see the thoughtful advocacy of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Creating a City That Works, Victorian Government, 2007, pp. 17-21.
5. Transforming Australian Cities, City of Melbourne, July 2009, p. 13
6. ibid., p. 14.
7. Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, 2007, op. cit, p. 32
8. B. Birrell, K. O'Connor, V. Rapson and E. Healy, Melbourne 2030: Planning Rhetoric Versus Urban Reality,Monash University ePress, 2005, chapter 2, pp. 16-17.
9. K. O'Connor and V. Rapson, 'Employment in city and suburban Melbourne: the changing relationship', People and Place, vol.11, no.4,2003, p. 44
10. Connex Melbourne Trains Australia, Our performance-past 12 months, April 2009, http://www.cormexmel-bourne.com.au
11. In the case of people counted as using the train all those who used the train for work trips, either alone or in combination with up to two other means of transport, were included. In the case of people counted as using the tram all those using the tram alone or in combination with any other means of transport were included. A series of geographical concordances were constructed to allow data from earlier census issues to be expressed using the census collection district (CCD) boundaries defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the 2006 census. The distance of each CCD centroid in the MSD from the nearest railway station was calculated. For the analysis shown in this table, only CCDs that had their centroid within five kilometres of a railway station were used. Where a CCD was within five kilometres of more than one station, the CCD was allocated to the closest station. Data on the location of tram stops were not available to the authors of the study. As a proxy, roads containing tramlines were identified and each road intersection on each route was specified as a tram stop. This may overstate the proximity to trams; although the tram line will be within the specified proximity, there may be an additional distance to the actual stop locations.
12. Transport Demand Information Atlas for Victoria-Volume 1: Melbourne, Victorian Department of Transport, 2008, p. 9
13. ibid, p. 12
14. SGS Economics and Planning, Residential Intensification in Tramway Corridors, Department of Planning and Community Development, March 2009
15. ibid., p. ii
16. ibid., p. 28
17. ibid., p. 3
18. ibid., p.24