2018-07-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                          10 JULY 2018



4                        NOOSA TRANSPORT STRATEGY - 12 MONTH PROGRESS REPORT
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                            Director Infrastructure Services, Carl Billingham
                                  Infrastructure Services Department

Index                             ECM /Subject / Transport Policy
                                  ECM / Project & Contract / Transport Strategy

Attachments                       1.   Working Group Options Assessment
                                  2.   e-Noosa Concept
                                  3.   Noosa Parking and Traffic Survey 2018 (Note: 52pg attachment provided
                                       separately to this report)
                                  4.   Noosa Transport Strategy 2017-2027


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the status of the implementation of the
Noosa Transport Strategy 2017-2027.

Since the Transport Strategy was adopted, Council’s Infrastructure Services Department,
supported by a number of external consultants have been working on the five initiatives identified
in the strategy. This work has included the assessment of the root causes of the current traffic
and congestion focussing on:
     capturing the data necessary to determine what solutions will target the root causes of
      congestion, and
     identifying the principles and objectives for potential solutions.

The Transport Strategy went through a comprehensive process of stakeholder engagement and
consultation resulting in some 1200 comments and submissions. Based on this feedback five key
priority areas were proposed for further investigation in 2017/18 and 2018/19. These
investigations are now largely completed.

In summary the activities of the first 12 months can be shown in the following 3 stages:

                                Allocate    •Transport Planning Engineers
                             Resouces to    •Project Manager
                              the project   •Internal Staff

                                                              •Traffic & Parking Surveys
                                               Define the     •Intercept Surveys
                                                problem       •Schools Surveys
                                                              •Analysis & Report
                                                                     What does      •Internal & External
                                                                     acceptable     •Define Principles for a good
                                                                    solution look    solution
                                                                        like?       •Develop & Prioritise Options




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