People for Public Transport
(SA) Inc.

Making public transport work in Melbourne
People and Place, Sept, 2009 by David McCloskey, Bob Birrell, Rose Yip
(MS Word doc, 11p, 83 Kb)

How dense are we?
Another look at urban density and transport patterns in Australia, Canada and the USA
Paul Mees, School of Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT
(.pdf file, 15p, 127Kb)

This is a report from the South Australian Parliament inquiring
"On the development of an efficient and integrated public transport system incorporating all forms of public transport and necessary infrastructure improvements."

Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

Here in South Australia the Government is planning our first ever TOD in Bowden, to be followed eventually by others. If you need some guidance into what is a TOD and more importantly what makes a good TOD then please have a look below at this small sampling of documents gleaned from the experience of cities around the world.

Transit-Oriented Development: Factors and Elements of Success
Baltimore TOD Summit – 12/10/2007  (44p, 4.78 MB, pdf file)

Transit Oriented Development Amended December 2005 Policy Guidelines
City of Calgary (44p, 1.11 MB, pdf file)

Transit-Oriented Zoning and Transit-Oriented Development
City & County of Honolulu TOD Program (56p, 4.85 MB, pdf file)

Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
Urban Land Institute - USA (56p, 4.55 MB, pdf file)

Transit Oriented Development Principles, Best Practice and Implementation
(14p, 1.06 MB, pdf file)    Presented at the PPT Annual General Meeting 2009 by our guest speaker Benjamin Russ of  Infraplan (Aust) Pty Ltd

Bus Australia - Australian Transport Discussion Board

For those of you who wish an up to date opportunity to discuss transport matters in your state please look at the Bus Australia Discussion Forum. The forum covers all modes of public transport throughout Australia and even some overseas.

The link is: http://www.busaustralia.com/forum/

Transport Enquiry - 2008
Environment, Resources and Development Committee
Parliament of South Australia

The PPT submission to the inquiry includes a short summary paper
(3 pages) along with the following three attachments:

Attachment A - What are the Features of Good Public Transport (9p)
Attachment B - Climate Policy at the Junction (57p, 672 Kb, pdf)
Attachment C - What's Wrong with Depending on Cars (12 pages)

The original Terms of Reference (2p, 66Kb, pdf)

State Budget 2008 - Significant new investments in public transport.

The 2008 South Australian State Budget has surprised us all by announcing large new investments in public transport infrastructure. For the first time in many years we are about to get the kind of spending that will make possible significant improvements in services.

Check out the following links for further information:

Budget: Public Transport, 5 June 2008 
Source : News: Premiers and Ministers of South Australia

New Connections - Sustainable Adelaide      
Source : Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure
Also available from here (pdf File, 363 Kb)

2008-09 Budget Paper 4: Portfolio Statement, Volume 2 (1440 KB)
Volume 2 contains the figures relating to public transport
Source : Department of Treasury and Finance:
Also available from here (pdf File, 1.40 Mb)

PPT Submission to the Legislative Council - May 2008

Recently PPT has presented a submission to the South Australian Legislative Council, specifically to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Peak Oil.

This submission consisted of five documents, listed below.

1. Legislative Council - Peak Oil - Submission May 20082.doc
2. Legislative Council - Peak Oil - Submission May 2008 - Att A2.doc
3. Legislative Council - Peak Oil - Submission May 2008 - Att B2.doc
4. Legislative Council - Peak Oil - Submission May 2008 - Att C2.doc
5. Garnaut_transport_submission_2008-04-11.doc

This last document was originally produced by the Public Transport Users Association
We would like to thank them for their permission to use their work in our submission.

Also available as a pdf file (672 Kb) at
http://www.ptua.org.au/2008/04/14/garnaut-transport-submission/

To learn more about People for Public Transport and our aims and goals please see the
About Us page.

If you wish to contact PPT our postal address, phone number, etc. are available from the
Contact Us page.

From the Downloads page documents on public transport issues can be viewed and/or downloaded.

The Events page lists events, activities and happenings that may be of interest to all concerned with public transport issues.

The Links page will take you to other public transport related sites. This page lists Australian sites as well as providing access to International sites.

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