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Corridor Studies
planning to secure land for transport links required…
Corridor Studies
- planning to secure land for transport links required for the movement needs of growing communities and industries, to accommodate commuters, workers, businesses and industries who all rely on different types of transport modes
- transport link is the future transport infrastructure needed to support transport connections across Greater Sydney and regional NSW
- Optimise outcomes for customers, communities and place
- Process to be stakeholder-led and digitally driven, and guided by a team of experts and professionals who use connected thinking to solve complex, modern problems.
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What are you most passionate about in the role and what contribution would you like to make, building on your career experiences to date
Opportunity to maximise potential for truly integrated transport and land use outcome that balances aspirations for TfNSW and community
- improve the accessibility of housing and amenities, widen access to jobs and education, make communities more resilient to climate change, reduce poverty and inequality, and promote public health and wellbeing. Social outcomes like these are the very purpose of infrastructure: to serve society and improve the quality of people’s lives
- Consider the link between social development and economic output. Transport networks, for example, that are made more accessible and inclusive through investing in public transport, cycling and walking will open up opportunities for employment, education and training. This will foster economic activity from groups that are often marginalised, including jobseekers, low-income families and young people. Improving access to secure and stable employment boosts people’s spending power, stimulating demand for goods and services. More jobs mean more tax revenues for local and central government. Lower levels of deprivation will reduce demand placed on public services. In short, reducing income inequality is good for business. There are also economic opportunities to be realised from making our built environment more accessible for people with diverse needs, such as older and disabled people, to shop, eat out and socialise.
being able to implement positive change through an ability to drive successful, economic and quality outcomes for projects, teams and stakeholders.
- transform communities, contributing to a future society that is economically prosperous, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable.
- Social inclusion, and putting people at the centre of planning to deliver projects that help remove barriers for the most disadvantaged and create fair and equitable access for all
- creating a lasting legacy that will benefit generations to come.
- finding ways to embed sustainable practices and address climate change in design: e.g. greening of accoustic barrier protection to help reduce latent heat and provide for better edestrian environment through cooling and improved amenity and biophilic design
Opportunity to build on career skills and experience to date:
- land use planning: Neighbourhood plans, feasibility studies, public domain plans,
- project management : co-ordinating NWTC OA and CP study, HVAP study
- analytical: transport modelling (micro, sidra, meso), traffic data analysis, understanding geotech/structural/pavement assessments, JTW census data and GIS analysis, bespoke static modelling of ped/traffic networks
stakeholder engagement skills: coordinating HVAP assessment and disciplines, Neighbourhood planning internal and external engagement, NWTC bus. case - attending public consultation
- Shaping long term integrgated transport and land use outcomes: neighbourhood planning/zoning/infrastructure development, road network planning of hierarchy and modal strategy, corridor feasibility studies to enable movement and growth along corridors, NWTC for regional missing link + enable community growth along corridor
Purpose
- process to reserve land for future transport links.
- identifies and secures land needed for future infrastructure, such as roads and rail lines, before competing development comes along in a way that would prevent the land from being available for future transport infrastructure.
Benefit
- Planning the necessary future transport links now ensures that as NSW grows, communities will have access to transport, jobs, education, services, community, goods (freight delivery)
- Reduce project costs and disruption to communities when projects are delivered.
- boost to connectivity in the region, helping bring growth and jobs along corridor and at end interchanges of the corridor. Enable new communities to grow around the corridor and its nodes
- improve quality of life when access increased to places for jobs, community, work, study, entertainment and when goods and freight can enable economic activation
- corridors that improve freight capacity (rail/mwy) can decrease road transport volumes on rest of network leading to improved
- safety (save lives through reduced crashes), amenity (increase social outcomes), environmental outcomes (reduced GHG emission, noise/air pollution, quality of life with reduced cost of retail goods and decreased network congestion**
- provides certainty for land owners, land use planners and developers enabling growth and economic gain and potential community members (business, residential) > form the backbone of strategic development
- enable vision of 3 cities to be realised by providing access between the cities (to work, services, entertainment, community)
- improve customer choice and options to move between different centres in Greater Sydney urban area
- Enhance public transport and freight delivery through efficient and reliable corridors > increased liveability
- enable seamless, safe and affordable inter- and intra-regional and cross-border travel that creates a equitable transport system that provides greater coverage across NSW and gives customers more travel options, for both local and longer distance trips.
- reduce isolation and increase the liveability of regional centres and towns by providing regional customers with the option to undertake employment, education, leisure and health activities locally.
- separate freight rail and passenger rail task to improve service for both customers (quicker more efficient freight + more PT services with extra line capacity)
Challenges + Solutions
Providing for access but acknowledge that building our way out of congestion is not a sustainable solution.
Managing large infrastructure impacts - whole of life CBA, long lead times, disruption on community during construction
- Use Movement and Place to put our customers and the community at the centre of transport planning and delivery. Through moving people and goods on the most efficient modes of transport, the transport network assets can be maximised and contribute to enhanced place qualities by reallocating road space
current business case system does not enable us to factor in and place a value on such outcomes. Traditional methodology looks at only what can be monetised. The focus is on the short-term economic return of assets in isolation. We don’t assess the ‘success’ or performance of assets in terms of how they fit into the system of systems and deliver long-term outcomes that benefit the whole of society. Only when a holistic approach to business cases is adopted, one that recognises this interdependency between infrastructure and society, will we be able to secure greater investment for infrastructure projects which deliver more inclusive social outcomes.
Accurately predicting requirements of future corridor requirements for a changing urban mobility system
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Base planning on principles and outcomes focus using vision led planning and the movement and place framework
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Maximising opportunity for integration of transport and land use planning. Ensuring development along corridor optimises improvements to community, growth, place making and economic benefit from corridors delivery.
- Liaison with external stakeholders across all three levels of Government using digital tools and workshops with broad range of stakeholders to gain understanding of land use planning goals and how corridor development can help achieve that
- collaborate at each stage of projects
Ensuring projects contribute strategic goals of government to enable 30 minute cities, net zero 2050, contribute to sustainable travel demand management and decreased car reliance and mode share
- Ensure strategic goal alignment is mapped early
- Road Space User Policyy - no more increase in general traffic lanes
- Understand the planning proposals and strategies which drive development in the Western Parkland and Central River Cities
- utilise 'vision and validate' planning early
- get the right balance of modes in the corridor that contribute to community, place, environmental and place goals
Optimising engineering solution for corridor (socially, environmentally, economically):
- connections at end of corridor, interface with existing network
- constraints/opportunity analysis by discipline: project mgmt, transport planning, geotech, tunnelling, rail alignment, fire and life safety, ventilation, flooding and hydrology (in corridor + impact on surrounding community due to new corridor), utilities, bridges, drainage, environmental, risk management. Place making considerations (urban planners/architects?)
- mid-block design solutions such as alignment, grade separation (tunnel, fly over)
- maximise movement and place outcomes for area with addition of new link
- avoiding sensitive land uses (commercial, residential centres, green/community space, heritage)
- minimising property take / cost / earth works and whole of life project costs considering operational requirements of options
- Use up to date data sources and digital tools - digital twins to test different options, 'what if' scenarios to optimise outcomes for customers, communities and places.
- Early GIS mapping of constraints and opportunities, gained from collaboration with specialist engineering input
- ensure proper network planning for corridor in wider area, understand impacts of new link on communities nearby
- Collaborative approach to specialist engineering co-design to investigate corridor options for eventual public exhibition
- Use other digital tools in project development: Miro boards, GIS webmaps, shared MS teams and one note pages, transfer of files electronically and securely, quality control on design drawings, infraworks for design review by stakeholders. Regular communication and strong project management.
- iterative design process
- optimise design for energy efficiency e.g. reduce freight operational cost
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Being able to advocate for improved transport planning outcomes and directing/influencing project direction
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Stakeholders
- Improved collaboration across government > Improved outcomes for communities
Community
- concerns over corridor impact to house status / values / environmental impacts
- members who's property needs to taken for the corridor
- important to get input in setting vision to gain sense of buy-in in community develpoment
- properly gain
- Community groups / business / residents / representative bodies to provide broad input into local knowledge and potential impacts
Internal government stakeholders at TfNSW
- getting on the same page and working together to achieve a people and place based approach to transport planning
External government stakeholders
- Department of Planning and Environment (DPE)
Industry
- Developers
- Utility operators
- freight/rail operators
Process
General Process
- Identify and consult on broad study area
- Review community feedback
- Identify key land use and environmental constraints and opportunities (natural and built)
- Feedback and constraints inform location of recommended corridor
- Consult on recommended corridor and protection process
- Feedback from consultation to inform technical investigations
- Begin process for corridor protection
Goals of effective corridor protection:
- Minimise impacts on communities and the environment as much as possible.
- Minimise impacts on residential areas including villages, new communities and housing areas wherever possible
- Minimise impact on ecologically significant areas wherever possible.
- Protect rural amenity and heritage areas wherever possible.
- Avoid heritage conservation lands and national parks wherever possible.
- Minimise impact on major facilities such as schools, universities, hospitals and critical public infrastructure including motorways and roads, major power lines and sewerage infrastructure
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Recent corridor planning gazetted
- North South Rail Line (NSRL)
- SM-WSA alignment (tunnels)
- South West Rail Link Extension (SWRLex)
- Western Sydney Freight Line (WSFL )
Key corridors currently being worked on
- Outer Sydney Orbital Stage 1
- Outer Sydney Orbital Stage 2
- North South Rail Line and South West Rail Link Extension
- Western Sydney Freight Line – Stages 1 and 2
- East West Rail Link
- Lower Hunter Freight Corridor
Similar jobs
NWTC:
project coordination and multi-disciplinary design management to undertake constraints and opportunities mapping in GIS, as well as investigating proposed corridor alignments for transport infrastructure to determine the feasibility of potential alternatives. Design development for concept design of cross sections. Liaison with external stakeholders across two levels of Government.
- OA process for north and south interface, mid-block design, and high level concepts for mid-block interfaces
Heavy Vehicle Access Precicnt assessment
- Stakeholder engagement
- Internal: (asset management, structures, hydrology, pavement, civil/traffic
- External: DTMR, NHVR, Freight industry (operators, port staff)
- updating
Feasibility studies:
- Brookes St most recent
- stakeholder involvement (government) + community
- option development process + review against project requirements / feasibility / commercial aspect
- Developing concept design and identifying land requirements to achieve future transport corridor vision e.g. bike lanes, safer intersection design
Land use planning / NWTC business case study
- attending public consultation on options development, potential impact
- all about gathering their input, earing of their concerns and knowledge on opportunities/constraints, to help inform the design process
- Enabling 15m neighbourhood development to occur where people can walk and cycle to work
- identifying green corridors for safe shared cycling
- identiying walking infrastructure improvements such as cul-de-sac connections, improving walking paths to parks and other trip attractors, improving mid-block crossing opportunities on desire lines (train station to work precinct in NSM)
Port Rail access model North QLD
- Microsim modelling of rail network within port town to test impact of increased rail freight
- determining whether OLC upgrades are beneficial by developing transport analysis to inform economic analysis
- economist stakeholder / collaborator
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