Steven Head

1. Roads & Maritime
Services
Presentation to Australian Institute of
Traffic Planning and Management
July 2016

2. Roads & Maritime Services
2020 Strategy
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3. Our assets
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More than 18,000km of
State Roads, including 4317
of National Road Network
and 160km of Tolled
Motorways
107 wharves including 49
commuter wharves
26 Road Tunnels
3945 traffic signal sites and
around 12,000 other traffic
facilities, systems and
corridor assets
Around 3000km of regional and
local roads in the unincorporated
area of NSW Network
5287 bridges
32,424km2 of navigable
waterways and 2137km of
coastline
More than 26,000 moorings,
including 193 courtesy moorings
and more than 3400 maritime
aids to navigation

4. Introduction
Today’s Sydney
• Reinvigorated NSW economy
• Above national average population growth
• Increased traffic volumes = increased congestion
Global Sydney
• Trending towards a ‘small’ megacity
• Australia’s first global city
• Critical role of transport for Global Sydney
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Current state to Global Sydney

5. Today’s Sydney
• London has 5100 people per square kilometre
• Sydney has 2100 people per square kilometre
– 21km² of more than 8000 people
– 93km² of between 5000 and 8000 people
– 114 km² of more than 5000 people
• Rate of intensification rapidly increasing
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Population density drives transport outcomes

6. Today’s Sydney
Constraints
• Limited opportunities to expand road network
• Road space consumed by single occupant
vehicles
• Employment opportunities not always convenient
to public transport
• Dispersed population is challenging for mass
transit
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Our transport challenge

7. Today’s Sydney
• 17.6 million trips on an average weekday – 75% on roads
• Costs economy $5 billion per year
• Six most constrained strategic corridors are:
− Liverpool to Sydney Airport
− Mona Vale to Sydney via Dee Why
− Parramatta to Sydney via Top Ryde
− Parramatta to Sydney via Strathfield
− Rouse Hill to Macquarie Park
− Sydney Airport to Sydney City
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Congestion

8. Tomorrow’s Sydney
State Infrastructure Strategy identifies key
challenges including:
• Tackling congestion
• Catering for a growing demand
• Extracting the optimum performance
• Building future capacity and protecting road corridors
• Enhancing access to Sydney
• Planning for population growth - integrating transport and land use planning
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Facing the challenges

9. Tomorrow’s Sydney
• Trains
• Light rail
• Corridor protection
• Buses
• Ferries
• Road transport
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Cluster approach

10. Tomorrow’s Sydney
Motorways
• WestConnex
• NorthConnex
• Western Harbour
Tunnel
• M12
Major road upgrades
• The Northern Road
• Richmond Road
• Northern Beaches
• Narellan Road
• Sydney Airport
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Motorways and major road improvements

11. Tomorrow’s Sydney
Sub programs
• Pinch Points
• Clearways
• Southern Gateway
• M4 Smart Motorway
• Urban Traffic Control Systems
• Bus Priority Infrastructure Program
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Tackling congestion

12. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
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Pinch Point Programs

13. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
Criteria for clearway investigation is:
• Directional traffic flows exceed 800 vehicles per
hour per lane
• Travel speeds are 30km/h or below during peak
periods
• The road is a strategic bus or freight
transport corridor for moving people
and goods
• Alternative public parking close to local
businesses can be found
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Clearways

14. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
The M4 Smart Motorways Project is expected to
provide major benefits to western Sydney motorists
including:
• Boosting peak time capacity by up to 30 percent -
the equivalent of adding an extra lane
• Improving peak travel times by up to 15 minutes
• Improving travel reliability by up to 50 percent
• Reducing crashes by up to 30 percent.
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Smart Motorways

15. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
Transport Management Centre
• Monitors and manages road network
• 24 hours a day
• 365 days a year
• Cars and trucks, trains, buses,
ferries and light rail
SCATS upgrade will allow monitoring of:
• Real-time vehicle travel speeds
• Where vehicles are travelling to and from
• Efficient and reliable routes
• Warn when trucks are oversized for tunnels
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Urban Traffic Control Systems

16. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
Improving bus services includes:
• Dedicated bus lanes and traffic light
improvements
• Bus stop relocation
• Rationalisation of stop spaces
• Rapid Bus Transit routes
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Bus Priority Infrastructure Program

17. Easing Sydney’s Congestion
Non-build solutions
• CCTV camera monitoring and enforcement
• Big data and strategic road transport planning
• Smart phones and social networks
• The internet of things
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Complimentary strategies

18. Tomorrow’s Sydney
But the future will bring new challenges including:
• Changing expectations from our customers who
are often time-poor
• Sydney moving from being an extensively
developed city to one with a central ‘global’ pocket
of high population densities
• Rapidly changing technology
• Government funding constraints
• Rising costs.
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New challenges in the future