What Cities Want Urban mobility & sustainable urban

development

CASE STUDY: Melbourne, Australia

Rob Moore,

Manager Urban Design, City of Melbourne

Presentation to ‘What Cities Want’ International Workshop

8-9 October 2012

Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany

Melbourne: Urban Mobility and Sustainable Urban Development

• Context

• Growth

• Transport challenges and solutions

• Sustainable urban development

City of Melbourne put in context

Australia

Population

22,300,000

Victoria

Population 5,500,000

Metropolitan Melbourne

Population 4,000,000

City of Melbourne

Resident population 100,000

Workforce 413,136

Daytime visitors 800,000

Low growth

Planned urban renewal

Existing high growth

Growth : Areas of Growth

High density

Well connected

Enabled by high

mobility

Specialisation

Innovation

knowledge

SGS Economics

High Effective Jobs Density – car + public transport

Knowledge Economy

Percentage of jobs:

5% - All 6 CAD’s

11% - CBD (Hoddle

Grid)

21% - City of Melb

40% - Inner Melbourne

Inner Melbourne is Victoria’s jobs hub

Knowledge Economy

Enabled by excellent transport access – car + public transport

Knowledge Economy

growth enabled by increased

capacity of Public Transport +

walking

Enabled by excellent transport access – public transport only

Knowledge Economy

Transport Challenges and Solutions

Integrated signage, Melbourne

City of Melbourne jobs growth

1980 to 2020

Trip generation

Getting into the city - Mode share targets

Mobility

Getting around the city - Mode share targets

Mobility

Trip purpose

4,866,840 2,561,460

7,684,335

1,127,036

1,178,264

2009

-18%

2030

(with Mode shift target)

341,525

5,157,058

2030

(Business as usual)

637,749 956,273

9,895,716

719,916 84,660

6,309,165

+57%

1,075,809 Public Transport

Walking

Cycling

Private Car

Sources:

Mode shift target and population projections: City of Melbourne Transport Strategy, 2012-2030

Mode Split: Department of Transport VISTA, 2009

Spatial requirements by mode: City of Melbourne Transport Strategy, 2012-2030 and Booz & Company estimate

(car)

*Note: Public transport space requirements calculated using spatial requirements for a bus

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Spatial requirements by mode, 2009 +

2030 Trips within the City

DRIVING - Road Traffic Volume reaching plateaux

Mobility

Public Transport Access 2010 + 2030

2011 - 135 trains/day

TRAINS - Increase capacity & reliability

Mobility

TRAINS - Increase capacity & reliability

2011 : 256 trains/day

Mobility

Southern Cross Station, Melbourne : Arch- Grimshaw

Future Mobility shift

TRAMS - Balance and expand the network

2011

Mobility

Future Mobility shift

TRAMS - Balance and expand the network

2030

Mobility

Melbourne Tram

Network – one of the

oldest/largest in the

world

Tramstop

1980’s ‘Safety Zones’

No disabled access

Easy-access raised platform tram stop, Melbourne

Swanston Street Redevelopment

City buses

CYCLING - Expand central city safe cycling

Mobility

A cycling city

Albert Street, East Melbourne

WALKING - Public transport and pedestrians work as one mobility system

Mobility

Coordinate with expanded mobility infrastructure

2011 – 800,000 daily city

users

Mobility

Coordinate with expanded mobility infrastructure

2030 – 1,200,000 daily city

users

Mobility

Pedestrian Strategy 2012-13

Next Steps

Little Collins Street : closed to

cars

between 12pm to 2pm daily

A walking city

Delivery vehicles

Sustainable Urban Development

Sustainable Urban Development

Vulnerability Assessment for Mortgage, Petrol & Inflation Risks and

Expenditure (VAMPIRE)

GHG emissions by sector for the City of Melbourne 2005-06

total emissions estimated at 6.43 million tonnes CO2-e

Commercial sector 53%

Transport 13%

Manufacturing 12%

City of Melbourne – CO Emissions

Zero Net Emissions by

2020

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City of Melbourne Zero Net

Zero Net Emissions by 2020 Update 2008

Emissions Target

Source: City of Sydney

Emissions reductions - strategy

Source: City of Sydney

Principles of Urban Design

1994

2004

Places for People

www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutCouncil/Plans

andPublications/Pages/PlacesforPeople2004

Rob Moore

City of Melbourne robert.moore@melbourne.vic.gov.au

www.melbourne.vic.gov.au