This Metropolitan Transport Plan was intended to augment Sydney's then metropolitan strategy City of Cities (2005).

This paper describes a research project that examines the potential of SMEs to locate in transit oriented development precincts in Perth.

This paper enquires into the underlining values and beliefs internalised by professional transport planners, and how such values and beliefs play out against institutional and practical constraints planners face daily during their attempts to develop transport systems in a more sustainable manner.

This paper examines the empirical shortfalls of the technical-rational decision-making process in transportation planning, highlighting the reliance on a select few experts, limited public participation in modelling processes, and decision-makers who have little understanding of the methodological limitations inherent in transport modelling advice.

Is transport a means to an end or the end in itself ? Many integrated transport studies, plans or strategies for cities identify transport as a player in the game of achieving sustainable and liveable cities. This article briefly explores the planning and institutional issues in how governments can achieve this desired outcome.