ARTA Annual Report 2009 - Auckland Transport

Progress on implementing the
Regional Land Transport Strategy
The Auckland Regional Land Transport Strategy (ARLTS) sets out a vision for Auckland’s transport system
and a 10-year framework (from 2005-2016) for working towards this vision. There are three main elements
to the strategy: roads, public transport and travel demand management.
Four high–level goals
The ARLTS specifies a number of goals. There are four key goals by which ARTA measures the contribution
of its activities and those of other agencies to implementing the ARLTS:
Targets by 2016
Target by 2016 07/08 08/09
49% of motorised trips into the CBD by passenger transport 1 32,076 PT trips into the
CBD in the morning peak
32,747 PT trips, an
increase of 2.1%
100 million PT boardings per annum 54.4m 58.6m
20,000 fewer car trips each morning peak through travel plans 5,785 6,492
6% decline in road casualties per 10,000 population, to 29.2 30.9 29.9
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Dependent upon the Passenger Transport Network Plan being fully funded.
Public transport trips into the CBD each morning
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Motorised trips into the CBD
Getting people into the CBD by public transport at peak times delivers double benefits – it removes cars from
our most congested roads, and it contributes to the growth of Auckland’s economic and cultural heart.
Auckland’s CBD has a finite number of parking spaces and the roads leading to it are seriously congested
at peak times. During the 1980s and 1990s, the importance of Auckland’s CBD as an employment and retail
centre steadily declined. This trend has now been halted; between 2002 and 2007, jobs in the CBD grew at
the same rate as the rest of the region. Making it easier to catch the bus, train and ferry into town is crucial
to maintaining this growth.
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