Planning our transport system

The Department of Transport is responsible for the long term planning and development of Victoria's transport network. This includes making sure that public transport is expanded in growing areas, and is integrated with other modes of travel including cars, cycling and walking.

Information on this page

• Key strategies
• Victorian Transport Plan Consultation
• Linking transport and land use for the future
• Infrastructure Australia submission

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Key strategies

• The Victorian Transport Plan - a $38 billion investment that will transform our transport network
• Freight Futures - a long term strategy to shape an efficient and sustainable freight network for Victoria
• Port Futures - a strategy to ensure Victoria's trading ports are developed and managed effectively
• Keeping Melbourne Moving - a $112.7 million package of short term initiatives to address congestion within 10km of Melbourne CBD
• The Victorian Cycling Strategy - aims to increase cycling levels across Victoria and position cycling as a viable and attractive transport option
• Level crossing safety strategy: Towards Zero - sets out important initiatives to improve safety and reduce deaths and injuries at level crossings
• Victoria's Local Roads - highlights the importance of local roads to Victorian industry and the national economy
• Victoria's Road Safety and Transport Strategic Action Plan for Powered Two Wheelers - aims to reduce motorcyclist and scooter rider fatalities and serious injuries

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Victorian Transport Plan Consultation

Following a comprehensive public consultation program, the Premier's Victorian Transport Summit in early September 2008 brought together some of the best minds in transport, urban planning, environment and construction.

The Your Say (PDF, 778 KB, 25 pp.) document was used to lead the discussion.

The Victorian Transport Plan Stakeholder Engagement Summary Report (PDF, 228 KB, 28 pp.) details:

• key findings from the local round tables and the transport summit.
• the stakeholder engagement process
• key findings, and
• feedback obtained during these events.

Consultant reports for the Victorian Transport Plan

1. Booz and Co: Melbourne Public Transport Standards Review (PDF, 217 KB, 15 pp.)
2. Edward Dotson: East West Link Needs Assessment Recommendations 1, 2, 3, 6 (PDF, 185 KB, 3 pp.)
3. GHD: EWLNA and Northern Link (PDF, 13,861 KB, 81 pp.)
4. GHD: Hoddle Street Advice (PDF, 19,168 KB, 91 pp.) *Note very large file
5. Maunsell: Review and Analysis of Historical and Proposed Commuter Ferry Services on Port Phillip (PDF, 657 KB, 49 pp.)
6. Meyrick: Economic Assessment (PDF, 321 KB, 28 pp.)
7. Price Waterhouse Coopers: Review of Social, Demographic and Land Use Analysis (PDF, 135 KB, 22 pp.)
8. Price Waterhouse Coopers: Additional Impacts Analysis (PDF, 505 KB, 22 pp.)
9. Price Waterhouse Coopers: Critique of Assessment of Conventional Costs and Benefits (PDF, 1561 KB, 41 pp.)
10. Price Waterhouse Coopers: Review of the Estimation of Wider Economic Benefits (PDF, 115 KB, 20 pp.)
11. SGS Economics and Planning: Melbourne Employment Projections (PDF, 933 KB, 34 pp.)
12. SGS Economics and Planning: Valuing Household Sector Non-Transport Benefits in Cost Benefits Analysis (PDF, 632 KB, 39 pp.)
13. Summary of Model Outputs (PDF, 1,802 KB, 23 pp.)
14. The Nous Group: Transport Abatement Wedges (PDF, 706 KB, 54 pp.)
15. Veitch Lister: Zenith Model Establishment And Validation Report (PDF, 2,935 KB, 34 pp.)
16. Veitch Lister: Background Assumptions (PDF, 919 KB, 11 pp.)

If you have trouble accessing the information in any of these documents and need them in a different format please contact us.

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Linking transport and land use for the future

The Director of Public Transport is a referral authority under the Planning and Environment Act. See Public transport and planning referrals.

The Government has also developed Public Transport Guidelines for Land Use Development.

The Department of Transport works closely with other Departments in the planning and implementation of the Melbourne 2030 strategy and the Transit Cities program.

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Infrastructure Australia submission

Victoria's Project Prioritisation Submission to Infrastructure Australia 2009 (PDF, 4.7 MB, 64 pp.)

Victoria has strongly supported the new direction in infrastructure planning and investment taken by the Rudd Government over the past two years through the creation of Infrastructure Australia and the funding of projects from the Building Australia Fund.

Victoria believes the next step in this process is for the Commonwealth to partner Victoria in implementing the State's long-term strategic plans for improved planning, regulation, and enhancement of the State’s infrastructure, particularly in the transport sector. Rather than a focus on one-off project funding, Victoria believes this integrated approach is a preferable model for delivering state and national policy objectives.

As was the case in Victoria's 2008 submission to IA (PDF, 3,873 KB, 34 pp.), transport is a significant focus of this submission. This focus reflects the critical infrastructure need in this sector but also the enormous potential return to the national economy from targeted and strategic investment in Victoria's transport network.

This submission provides information for Infrastructure Australia in three key areas:

• Victoria's IA priority pipeline projects (plus WestLink, Truck Action Plan and the North East Link)
• Victoria's priority projects for the Nation Building Program post-2013/14
• Strategic policy initiatives including Smart Cities, Smart Freight and integrated development of new Gippsland resource industries.