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CVEN30011

Smart Transportation 2025

Assignment 2

Part I: Land Use & Transport Options

Part II: Level of Service (upcoming)

25 August 2025

Project Background (same asA1)

Imagine  that  you  have  been  hired  by  a Local Government Area (LGA)  in  Metropolitan  Melbourne  to investigate  how the  new Suburban  Rail  Loop  Line will serve  and impact the area. The semester  project involves an assessment of the area including the served population and their current travel alternatives as well as the proposition of complementary strategies that can enhance the benefits brought by the new line. Throughout the semester, you will work individually and in group to deliver the different components of the project as part of Assignments 1-3.

The LGA hiring your services will be determined based on the last digit of your Student ID. On the cover page of the deliverable, you should include both the full name and Student ID number of all group members and the name of the LGA. Groups should have between 3 and 4 students. All group members should (1) have Student IDs that match the same LGA and (2) be attending the same tutorial session.

•    Student ID # ending with 0 or 1: Werribee Station – Wyndham LGA

•    Student ID # ending with 2 or 3: Sunshine Station – Brimbank LGA

•    Student ID # ending with 4 or 5: Broadmeadows Station – Hume LGA

•    Student ID # ending with 6 or 7: Heidelberg Station – Banyule LGA

•    Student ID # ending with 8 or 9: Cheltenham Station – Kingston LGA

Figure 1: Suburban Rail Loop Plan (Source:https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/suburban-rail-loop)

The SRL will create direct connections between the following LGAs: Bayside, Kingston, Monash, Whitehorse, Manningham, Banyule, Darebin, Merri-bek (Moreland before 2022), Hume, Brimbank, and Wyndham.

For more information about the SRL project, visit: https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/suburban-rail-loop. Some additional information may be available within the relevant city council’s website.

Assignment 2 Task

In this task you will work in groups of 3 to 4 students. If you do not form a group by the 29th of August 23:59, the subject coordinator will allocate you to a group. You will be able to visualise the name of your teammates via  Canvas  once  the  groups  are  allocated.  You  can  find  each  other’s  contact  information  and  use  the discussion  functionality  to  communicate.     If  you  have  issues  contacting  your  team  members,  let  the instructors know as soon as possible.

The SRL aims to improve the connectivity of Melbourne’s rail network, which is currently radial and requires travellers to go to the CBD if they want to reach suburbs served by different train lines.

In Part I of this assignment, you will analyse the land use and existing public transport options in your LGA. In Part II, you will compute level of service metrics and discuss the potential benefits of the new SRL line. You should use QGIS (or ArcGIS) to  produce all the maps in the assignment. Maps should be exported from QGIS/ArcGIS and included in the report as an image.

This is a project and often you will need to make assumptions. This is a group assignment so that you can discuss these assumptions with your team, just like in your professional life. There are multiple possible ways of answering questions and they will be correct as long as they are clearly explained and in alignment with transport theory.  Always explain your assumptions and methodology (including the calculations).

PART I (66 points)

Task A: Land Use and Activity System

1)   Create a map of the LGA identifying its sub-areas based on their predominant land use zone type (commercial, industrial, residential, mixed use, public land, transport, rural, special purpose, other). Compute the areas for each sub-area and identify the predominant land use within the LGA. The map should include the LGA border and a legend with the 9 land zone types above. (8 pts)

2)   Create a map that colour codes the 9 land use zone types into trip production zones (red), trip attraction zones (blue), or none (grey). What proportion of the LGA’s land is a trip attraction zone? Based on the relevant theoretical definitions, provide a justification to why each land use type should be classified as production, attraction, or none [150 words]. (6 pts)

3)   Compare your results from Q2 with those from A1-Q2. Discuss potential reasons why the results align/differ [150 words]. (6 pts)

Task B: Public Transport Options

4)   Create a map of the existing public transport  network in your  LGA.  Identify the  different  public transport modes and services. Include the routes (and labels) and stops of these services in the map. If you find necessary, you can use an auxiliary table to show the service names. (10 points)

5)   What services are more suitable to serve local trips (trips within the LGA)? Why?  [100 words] (3 points)

6)   What services are the best alternatives to travel from the LGA to Melbourne’s CBD? Why?  [100 words] (3 points)

Task C: Service Coverage

7)   To analyse public transport access and coverage, it is necessary to understand how far people are willing  to  walk  to   reach  these  services   (walking  threshold).   Use  the   literature  to   identify  an appropriate catchment area threshold for (i) bus and (ii) train services. Justify your choice providing references [150 words]. (4 points)

8)    Using the thresholds  selected  in  Q7, for  bus  and train,  create  a  map  and  plot  the  service  area (catchment area from all stops/stations)  using  isochrones  or the  buffer  technique.  Explain  your choice between isochrone and buffer for each [100 words]. (10 points)

9)   What percentage of the LGA area has access to each mode? (2 points)

10) What percentage of the trip production area has access to each mode?  Interpret and briefly discuss this result [100 words]. (4 points)