How Movement and Place frameworks are changing community outcomes
Thursday 21 July 2022 1:45pm-3:15pm
Transport planning is no longer just about cars. Movement and Place frameworks – and the idea that streets are for people – is now part of all aspects of transport planning.
This session will look at the latest government transport frameworks – and challenge how we need to reallocate road space from cars to improve outcomes for our communities.
Session Outline
- Session Moderator - Bright Pryde - Lead Consultant, Integrated Transport & Mobility | Aurecon
- Jessica Farrell, Director, Future Transport Strategy and Guidance | Transport for NSW - Network Planning in Precincts Guide - The strategic design and planning of transport networks
- Chris Coath, Senior Principal Transport Planner | Stantec - Parking in a Movement and Place Context
- Krista McMaster, Senior Managing Consultant, Urban Planning | Ramboll - Programming Liveability Assessments for City Economies
Bright Pryde, Lead Consultant, Integrated Transport & Mobility | Aurecon
Bright Pryde
Lead Consultant, Integrated Transport and Mobility | Aurecon
Bright is an experienced transport planner and project manager with a passion for improving connectivity within cities. With appropriate land use policy, urban planning and stakeholder engagement, she believes it is possible to create effective and sustainable transport networks that are integral to the successful functioning of metropolitan communities.
As a Lead Transport Planner at Aurecon with over a decade of experience in the built environment sector in Australia and the UK, Bright has led and contributed to major infrastructure projects and key strategic transport planning projects. She leverages her background in transport/land use policy and urbanism to deliver improved connectivity for Australian cities.
Jessica Farrell, Director, Future Transport Strategy and Guidance | Transport for NSW
Jessica Farrell
Director, Future Transport Strategy and Guidance | Transport for NSW
Jessica is the Director, Future Transport Strategy and Guidance at Transport for NSW. In her role, she leads the long-term strategy for transport across NSW and she and her team provide strategic guidance and tools to facilitate place-centric transport planning across government, including the Movement and Place Framework and the Guide to Network Planning Principles. Jessica has been involved in strategy and policy development within the NSW State Government for over 10 years as well as delivering several large state infrastructure programs. Jessica is particularly interested in improving environmental sustainability outcomes, improving active transport links within and around our cities and towns and creating better places to live right across NSW.
Network Planning in Precincts Guide - The strategic design and planning of transport networks
The Network Planning in Precincts Guide is for transport and land-use practitioners, including practitioners from Transport for NSW, the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, local government, and professionals who are involved in strategic design and planning processes for precincts. It provides best practice principles, tools, examples and case studies of a transport network that facilitates the efficient movement of people and goods while supporting 15-minute neighbourhoods and 30-minute cities, as well as the desired place, safety, public health and wellbeing, environmental and economic outcomes.
The guide adopts the NSW Movement and Place Framework, TfNSW Road User Space Allocation Policy and Safe System approach. It shifts the emphasis in network planning from a hierarchy of roads towards a complete network that is place-based and prioritises walking, cycling, public transport and the safety and comfort of our most vulnerable people.
The guide presents principles for planning and designing a multimodal transport network that integrates land use and transport at a precinct level.
Chris Coath - Senior Principal Transport Planner | Stantec
Chris Coath
Senior Principal Transport Planner | Stantec
Chris is a Senior Principal Transport Planner at Stantec.
He is a leading practitioner in the field of car parking strategy and management. He works daily in developing best practice car parking strategies for cities and activity centres across Australia.
His work ensures competing activity centre demands of all modes are balanced to achieve resource efficiency, urban design, place making and economic prosperity objectives.
More broadly, his skills encompass all major transport planning and traffic engineering areas.
He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineers Australia.
Parking in a Movement and Place Context
Activity Centres and Town Centres are required to balance many competing interests. Movement and Place represents one of the most explored concepts to balance transport interests in recent years. However, while this concept deals with creating a hierarchy for the prioritization of vehicles (amongst other movements) it does not commonly address how car parking fits within this concept.
Higher turnover of car parking is often sought in areas closest to key destinations where place aspects are most desired. This turnover of parking also plays a role in increasing access by more motorists to an area driving increases trader revenues. But does this contradict the notion of what movement and place is trying to achieve.
This paper explores the role of parking in a movement and place context and how these concepts can work practically together to enhance movement and place outcomes and the clarity of design.
Greater clarity can only assist to improve user experience, understanding and outcomes for all involved including managing authorities, customers and traders.
Krista McMaster, Senior Managing Consultant, Urban Planning | Ramboll
Krista McMaster
Senior Managing Consultant, Urban Planning | Ramboll
Krista is an urban design and planning professional who has worked across a plethora of project types and scales, including transport infrastructure projects, with a focus on achieving successful movement and place outcomes.
Her employment with respected design and planning firms as well as the NSW government over the last 17 years has provided Krista with a well-rounded understanding of design and process from both consultant and client perspective. She has worked closely with various government agencies and councils across NSW and appreciates the complexities of approvals processes, project funding approval and budgeting, community and stakeholder engagement, design feasibility and application of standards and guidelines.
Krista has a passion for urban design and discovering innovative ways of working to achieve better design outcomes and communicate design decisions with clarity and conviction.
Programming Liveability Assessments for City Economics
The NSW Government have announced a A$8bn investment to grow regional jobs, build vibrant liveable towns, support regional communities and drive economic recovery.
Ramboll has developed an economic model which supplements traditional assessment frameworks such as multi criteria analysis, to provide a broader economic and financial rationale.
The outputs of the model provide a comprehensive overview of project cost and benefits, incorporating broader benefits of liveability as part of the case for change.
Ramboll worked with Transport for NSW to implement the Movement and Place Framework and formulate a holistic assessment that quantitively captures "criteria for place" utilising the model.
This tool is particularly useful for transport projects that are traditionally assessed based on improvements to quantifiable aspects such as travel time, speed and reliability, however can be utilised to assess place outcomes for all development infrastructure projects.