2020-07-07 S&O Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 1 - Go Noosa Initiatives Evaluation

                                                                                                            Services & Organisation Committee Agenda
                                                                                                            7 July 2020
Attachment 1: Go Noosa Initiatives Evaluation                                                               Attachment 1 to Item 1

Executive Summary

Refer to below table as an executive summary of the initiatives, their alignment with the Transport Strategy, data, qualitative evaluation and
proposed next steps. Detailed report is described further below.

Table 1: Go Noosa Alignment with Transport Strategy

 Go       Noosa    Alignment            with   Data                                 Evaluation                                Next steps
 2019/20 Peak      Transport       Strategy
 Period            ‘First Five’ Initiatives
 Initiative
 Free Holiday      Trial High Frequency        245,906 passenger trips. New         Free buses and loop buses are a           Review scheduled frequency of 065 loop
 Buses             Shuttle Bus &               high frequency shuttle bus           major contributor to use of               bus.
                   historical activity         contributes to 20% year on year      sustainable transport, reducing           Investigate Noosa wood to National Park
                                               growth                               emissions and congestion                  shuttle bus.
 Park & Ride       Investigate Park &          30% of Free Bus passengers           Park & ride sites as a total are under    Monitor usage, demand and capacity in
                   Ride                        used a designated park & ride.       utilised.                                 Noosa Junction.
                                                                                    High level of ‘Hide & ride’ and ‘walk &   Further signage and promotion of parking
                                                                                    ride’ suggests high use from locals       areas outside of Noosa Heads for first
                                                                                    and visitors staying near bus routes.     time driving market.
 Bus Priority      Investigate Priority        Queue lengths did not warrant.       Not required when traffic-controllers     No further bus priority queue trials.
 Queue Jump        Transport Lanes             Unable to commence due to            in use managing bus priority.             Continue with traffic-controllers during
 Noosa Parade                                  illegally parked cars                                                          peak holidays

 Information       Introduce Car Parking       Approximately 7,800 people used      Locals and repeat users of free           Focus messaging to first time driving
 Systems:          Management                  Go Noosa App. 36% of survey          buses creates a diminishing demand        visitors to encourage Park & Ride.
 Digital                                       respondents indicated that the       for the digital boards.
 Information                                   digital information boards helped
 Boards and                                    inform their travel choices.
 Go Noosa App

 Initiative -      Introduce Car Parking       Bus times reduced with traffic-      Use of traffic-control critical for the   Continue use of traffic control during peak
 Traffic Control   Management                  controllers in use.                  road network in the Noosa Heads           holidays.
 & Wayfinding                                  Vehicle queue lengths reduced        area during peak periods.                 Consider trigger mechanisms to utilise
                                               with traffic-controllers in use.                                               traffic control during other peak periods.
                                               Roundabout functions
                                               maintained.
 Noosa Heads       Introduce Car Parking       150 additional car parks provided.   Car park well utilised in peak            Consider car park use of Lions Park in
 Lions Park –      Management                  $79,000 of revenue obtained          holidays.                                 consultation with DNRME.
 Car Park                                      through paid parking