Pedestrian Access Strategy 2010 - Victoria Walks

As shown in Figure 2, 75 per cent of all trips less than 400m in Melbourne are walked. In Victoria’s regional centres, walkingaccounts for 64 per cent of these trips. But as trip lengths increase the proportion of people walking decreases – and vehicletravel becomes the dominant transport choice even among trips as short as 400m-2km. These short vehicle trips could bereplaced with walking trips.Figure 2: Proportion of people walking for all trips less than 2km – metropolitan Melbourne100%90%80%70%Mode Share60%50%40%30%Other20%Cycling10%Public TransportVehicle0%