Problem
Canberra has one of the highest carbon emissions per capita of any city in the world because it has over recent decades been planned for the predominance of cars. Planning decisions of the time significantly extended Canberra’s urban form using transport corridors between the city and town centres for private vehicle transport. The result is a dispersed urban form, a lack of public transport infrastructure, increasing traffic congestion and one of the lowest densities of any Australian city. This has in turn resulted in a lack of connectivity across multiple scales.
Solution
Through a commitment to integration of transport and land use planning there is an opportunity to utilise a light rail system to influence urban form and public transport in a way which will make the national capital Australia’s exemplar sustainable city.
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