City Futures Research Centre UNSW Built Environment

Transport for NSW

Organisation name Transport for NSW
Organisation type Governmental organisation
Organisation fields
  • Transport
  • Interagency organisation
Description
This is the state department responsible for managing and shaping the future of the transport system in NSW.
Commenced Work Six months to two years ago
Type(s) of HBE Activity
  • Policy development
  • Advocacy for healthy built environments
  • Research to better understand healthy built environments
  • Translating research into policy
  • Guidelines for practitioners
  • Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
Key objectives of HBE activities
  • To reduce pollution from traffic
  • To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
  • To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active
  • Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
  • Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
  • Improving connectivity
  • Improving accessibility
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities
  • Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
  • Promoting equitable access to community facilities
  • Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
  • Influencing proximity to places of employment
The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities
No specific HBE strategies, research projects, tools -however HBE-related issues arise within certain areas of the transport planning and management portfolio.
Target Population
  • General population
  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Older people
  • Indigenous people
  • People with disabilities
Geographic Focus of HBE activities
  • All of the state
Website http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/