WA TMN | Looking Back thirty years later at The Road Reserves Review (1991) and the Metropolitan Strategy (1995) | In-person | 23 Nov 2023
About this event
We often try to forecast transport demand 30+ years into the future but rarely do we look back at our forecasts from 30 years ago. The Road Reserves Review (RRR) was a comprehensive transport/land use planning study undertaken between 1988-1991. A multi-disciplinary team of professionals assessed several alternative land use and transport scenarios looking forward to horizon years of 2006 and 2021.
A few years after the RRR was completed, a new Metropolitan Transport Strategy (MTS) was formulated. This event will feature several speakers and panellists who played important roles during the formation of the RRR and the MTS in the 1990s.
Light refreshments will be served prior to the start of the event.
Our speakers
#1. Nick Bursey, Former Director of the Road Reserves Review 1988-1990, (and former Director of Colin Buchanan and Partners, UK 1987-2004) will provide an overview of the RRR process and touch on some of the important recommendations.
#2. Richard McKellar, Former Manager of Metropolitan Transport Policy and Planning, WA DoT and Former Deputy Director, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network will talk about the development of the MTS. He will broadly cover the process and content and will also refer briefly to prior transport policies on which it was built.
#3. Ian Ker, Principal at CATALYST, Former Director of Transport Policy, WA Department of Transport, 1987-2001 will present his thoughts on the vagaries of implementation of the RRR and the MTS.
#4. Steven Piotrowski, Technical Principal – Transport Planning & Advisory, SMEC will compare RRR transport modelling forecasts with observed outcomes and reflect on the conclusions and recommendations of several historic transport planning studies including the Future Perth Strategic Transport Evaluation.
#5. Emmerson Richardson, Former Executive Director, Department of Transport, WA will be a member of the follow-up discussion panel and will communicate some relevant key findings of a recent National Transport Systems Paper from Engineers Australia.
Learning Outcomes
Some questions that this event addressed:
- How good were our forecasts in the RRR?
- Did we achieve our objectives? If not, why not?
- Obviously, the pandemic was not forecastable. But what other things may have happened in the past 30 years to affect the accuracy of our forecasts?
- Did we get the population and employment forecasts correct? If not, how were they different from reality?
- What were our targets in the Metropolitan Transport Strategy?
- Did we achieve them? If not, why not?
- What sort of transport system do we want in the future and what do we need to do to achieve it?
Hosted by the AITPM Transport Modelling Network (TMN)
For any enquiries, please contact Steven Piotrowski or Joanna Munyard.
2023 Retrospective , Nick Bursey, RRR Director (1988-1990)
The MTS , Richard McKellar, , Former Manager of Metropolitan Transport Policy and Planning, WA DoT
Look Back, Seven Piotrowski, Technical Principal - Transport Planning & Advisory, SMEC
