This paper traces the construction of the problem and solution which City link represents, and one of the technologies used in the project, to determine the specific art of government (AoG) of Melbourne’s City Link project.

This report examines how transport services in Australia should be charged for, how such charges can contribute to economic efficiency and how capital works in the transport sector should be funded. The transport sector is a significant component of the Australian economy with transport specific industries comprising 4.6 per cent of GDP in 2006‐07 and...

The cross city tunnel in Sydney has been a fairly spectacular failure as a Public Private Partnership – the operating company has gone into receivership less than 2 years after the tunnel opening in August 2005.

This paper reports on recent studies in 3 marginalised communities where residents were engaged through community mapping to design their preferred transport system.

Governments, planners and analysts across Australia agree that mode shift from the automobile to walking, cycling and public transport is desirable for environmental, social and health reasons, but in all our major cities trends are heading in the opposite direction. Various remedies have been proposed, but all have their drawbacks. Road pricing, for example, is...