Planning our transport system
The Department of Transport is responsible for the long term planning and development of Victoria's public transport network. This includes making sure that public transport is expanded in growing areas, and is integrated with other modes of travel including cars, cycling and walking.
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Current transport planning
The Government is developing a comprehensive transport plan for Victoria to be released by the end of this year.
The plan will respond to proposals for Melbourne's east-west corridor in Sir Rod Eddington's report
Investing in Transport, and other transport priorities across the state.
The more than
2,000 submissions received in response to the report represent a range of views in the community about Victoria's transport priorities for the future.
Consultation during August and September will allow communities to tell the Government about their local priorities:
- Local Government and peak groups across the spectrum will be invited to attend transport round tables in: Geelong, Traralgon, Bendigo, Ballarat, Doncaster, Dandenong, Epping and Footscray
- A Transport Summit to bring together the State’s best minds in transport and urban planning.
For more information on this consultation process contact
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Linking transport and land use for the future
The Director of Public Transport is a referral authority under the Planning and Environment Act. See
Public transport and planning referrals.
The Government has also drafted new
Public Transport Guidelines for Land Use Development.
The Coordinator-General, Infrastructure aims to achieve whole-of-government coordination of transport and land-use planning through strengthening links between key transport and land use authorities.
DOT works closely with other Departments in the planning and implementation of the
Melbourne 2030 strategy and the
Transit Cities program.
Transport planning studies and strategies
Meeting our Transport Challenges: Connecting Victorian Communities provides a strategic plan for Victoria's transport system and outlines the Government's short, medium and long-term transport priorities.
It builds upon
Linking Melbourne: Metropolitan Transport Plan, a strategic plan for the management and development of Melbourne's transport system. The Plan identified and examined four key transport challenges: safety, managing congestion, metropolitan growth, and support for economic development.
The
Linking Victoria program was launched in 1999 and since then has delivered new transport infrastructure projects and upgrades to Victoria's ports, roads, and rail network.
The following studies and strategies were conducted between 1999 and 2004 and their findings influenced the development of the
Metropolitan Transport Plan.