2019-06-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 JUNE 2019




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  11 JUNE 2019

              Attachment 1: Go Noosa Initiatives Evaluation

              This report evaluates the initiatives undertaken as part of the Noosa Council endorsed peak
              period traffic management trials known as the Go Noosa trials, and in turn, provides
              commentary on the operational effectiveness, data obtained, feedback, value for money and
              areas for improvement of each initiative.
              A number of tools were used to evaluate the Go Noosa Trials including:

                 e   Christmas & Easter Go Noosa Survey
                 e   Traffic, Pedestrian and Parking Occupancy Survey — 3 Jan 2019
                 e   Commonwealth bank data
                 e   Traffic sensors
                 e   Go Noosa App data
                 e   Traffic engineer observations
                 e   Tourism Australia data
                 e   Lions Park paid parking receipts
                 e   Anecdotal & Observational feedback

              It is acknowledged that behavioural change projects are difficult to evaluate given the lack of
              control groups, as such, the evaluation is based on a review of available information compared
              to desired outcomes and information obtained in previous years.

             1.    Initiative - Free Buses
              The following five Noosa-specific TransLink bus services were free from the 15'"° December
              2018 to 28" January 2019 and the 6" to the 28" April 2019:
              e   Route 626 — Tewantin to Sunrise Beach via Noosa Heads
              e   Route 627 — Tewantin to Sunshine Beach via Noosa Heads
              e   Route 628 — Noosa Parklands to Noosa Junction, via Noosa Civic
              e   Route 629 — Tewantin to Noosa Junction via Noosa Civic
              e   Route 632 — Noosa to Cooran via Cooroy and Pomona
              In order to offer a free service to residents and visitors between Peregian Beach and Noosa
              Heads, the following additional bus service was contracted to Sunbus to deliver:
              e  064 —Peregian Beach to Noosa Heads bus

              This report excludes information on the other TransLink services that operate into and out of
              the shire including:
                 e   Route 620 Noosa Heads to Maroochydore
                 e   Route 623 Noosa Junction to Maroochydore
                 e   Route 630 Noosa Junction to Nambour via Eumundi
                 e   Route 631 Noosa Junction to Nambour via Eumundi and Cooroy
              Council has requested information from TransLink on passenger numbers but to date is yet to
              receive this information.

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