The Light Rail Stage 2 project passes through and adjacent to a number of key cultural and heritage sites and, like all projects and proposals in these areas, must be consistent with the legal requirements imposed by the National Capital Plan. The committee is concerned that elements of the route alignment proposed by the ACT...

Light rail as a means for inner-city transit is undergoing a renaissance across Australia. Introducing a new mode of public transport, light rail projects can become catalytic agents for urban renewal. Unable or reluctant to deliver light rail infrastructure, Australian governments have turned to the private sector; entering performance-based public-private partnerships (PPPs) to design, construct...

This paper reports on the development of conceptual framework to identify the potential impact of LRT on the Canberra community using a co-benefits approach.

This paper imagines a Transit Oriented Region. It will imagine the region from the micro, the scale of Placemaking, to the macro of overall city structure. This paper attempts to calculate the costs and benefits a proposed expansion of the commuter rail for the Perth Metropolitan Region supplemented by light rail and bus rapid transit...