Consistent performance standards should guide decisions on funding, planning, building, operating and maintaining transport assets.9
As well as being based on mobility outcomes, these standards should address the interaction between transport operations and adjacent land uses (such as shops or housing), and the need to generate economic value over many decades.
Australian Government transport spending should be clearly linked to specified service outcomes for users under a nationally consistent movement and place framework.
" Australian Government transport spending should be clearly linked to specified service outcomes for users under a nationally consistent movement and place framework. "
The framework would cover both moving passengers and freight from one place to another and providing access to local places for people and deliveries.
Movement and place outcomes should align with how links between different modes are classified within a transport network hierarchy and across each type of geography, regardless of its state or territory.
Network hierarchy Classifying the transport links and services that make up a total network based on their function in end-to-end journeys rather than on their mode |