Maintenance and small improvement projects that connect transport modes and improve the transport interchange experience for public transport users have several benefits, including:
• helping to change attitudes and increase demand for sustainable transport modes
• shifting demand away from cars, which reduces the growth and impact of congestion
• generating local jobs
• improving assets' resilience to a changing climate
• increasing accessibility for people with disability.11
Governments should structure and coordinate planned maintenance and minor improvements across different transport modal assets at the same time, in collaboration with the transport industry.
This will deliver whole-of-life asset outcomes and better access more quickly and efficiently.