Planned investment – by activity class

Public transport has an essential role to play in reducing reliance on single- occupancy car trips, easing congestion in urban areas, enabling people to get to their destinations more efficiently, and decreasing the environmental impact of the transport system.

Rapid transit (on dedicated corridors, by bus or light rail) provides an opportunity to move large numbers of people more efficiently around cities and urban areas, while also easing congestion across the transport system for other users and helping to reduce harmful emissions from transport.

Walking and cycling facilities help make our cities and towns more liveable, improve public health and support tourism.

Local road improvements carried out by local government will include activities such as road resurfacing, pavement renewals, general maintenance, improvements to walking and cycling facilities, and high productivity motor vehicles strengthening at key locations.

Over the next three years, $456 million will be invested through this NLTP on regional improvements. This investment will support our regions to thrive by helping make key freight and tourism routes safer and more resilient.

We are improving the safety of our state highways by investing in high-value interventions that can be delivered within the next three years and will immediately deliver significant safety benefits.

Road policing is an activity class within the GPS that covers investment in road policing for safe behaviour by road users and enforcement of economic compliance (for example, with road user charges).

Increased investment in road safety promotion is proposed to support the GPS direction for a step-change in reducing deaths and serious injuries and will include funding for alcohol interlocks as well as the Transport Agency’s safety advertising campaigns.

We are investing up to $2.2 billion over 2018–21 on maintaining the state highway network to ensure our customers have quality access to economic and social opportunities.

A total of $3.5 billion will be invested to support local government to operate, maintain and renew over 80,000 kilometres of local roads over the next three years.

The investment management activity class covers transport planning, sector research, and investment in the funding allocation system.

The GPS supports an increased focus on public transport, reducing transport emissions, and reducing people’s reliance on private vehicles to move around. Rail has an important role to play across all of these outcomes.