Suburban Rail Loop East EES, Melbourne, Australia
The Aurecon Jacobs Mott Macdonald Joint Venture developed Victoria’s first digital environment effects statement, improving transparency for everyone.
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Victoria, Australia, is expected to grow to 11.2 million people by 2056 and Greater Melbourne will reach around 9 million people. To support this growth, Suburban Rail Loop is a multi-generational investment that is aiming to transform Victoria’s public transport system and deliver enormous social and precinct benefits for all Victorians, and visitors to the state.
It is planned as a 90 km orbital rail line providing a direct link to Melbourne Airport, relieving pressure on roads and transport networks, and connecting people to key destinations across the city – major job centres, health services and education institutions. In addition, people living in regional Victoria would no longer need to travel through the centre of Melbourne to access jobs in growing economic precincts outside the central business district (CBD).
However, it is much more than a transport project. Beyond the transport infrastructure and improved connectivity, it has the ability to transform Melbourne into a ‘city of centres’ – supporting vibrant precincts outside the CBD to provide more diversity in jobs, additional housing options, and green and open space in well-connected neighbourhoods.
Collaboration was key to generating the reference design for the project as the Aurecon, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald Joint Venture (AJM-JV) provided technical and engineering services, project visioning, planning advice, urban design, sustainability and environmental services, landscape architecture, precincts planning, digital data and advisory, business advisory, integrated transport and mobility, and communication and stakeholder engagement strategy services.
The programme of works would begin with Suburban Rail Loop East, consisting of six new underground stations, 26 km of twin underground rail tunnels, a train stabling facility and associated infrastructure. This section is expected to carry approximately 70,000 commuters daily upon completion.
Focused on meeting the needs of the people of Victoria, the AJM-JV considered every facet of the railway in the reference design, to ensure the best possible customer experience – from the ground level architecture to station depth, platform size and interchange, through to the type of trains, the seating arrangements, doors and the train stabling facilities.
The project would make commuter travel easier, faster and more convenient to access Melbourne’s fastest-growing precincts that will provide access to employment, health, education, retail and more for future generations. It’s a part of Plan Melbourne’s 2050 vision of a well-connected and polycentric city, that aligns transport investments with precinct plans and potential precinct development projects.
The Aurecon Jacobs Mott Macdonald Joint Venture developed Victoria’s first digital environment effects statement, improving transparency for everyone.
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