TfNSW Smart Stations Project, NSW, Australia
Aurecon was invited to work with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) to explore and define a ‘smart station’ and help inform TfNSW’s Future Transport Strategy 2056.
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The focus of the Transport Accessibility Program (TAP) is ensuring that all passengers can safely utilise public transport.
Aurecon delivered two TAP packages for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW), conducting scoping design for 13 train stations in the Central Coast, and Sydney metropolitan areas. Aurecon’s civil engineering, energy, and building teams, with sub-consultants PTW Architects, and BCA Logic collaborated with TfNSW throughout the design process.
Since the initiative’s inception in 2013, Aurecon has delivered the concept design and detailed design for multiple stations with accessibility at their core.
Many older train stations in New South Wales incorporate footbridges and subways with stair access, restricting use by those with accessibility needs. The program of works focuses on providing greater accessibility for people with mobility, vision, and hearing impairments, in addition to parents with prams, and passengers carrying luggage.
The designs include:
As part of the TAP works, Aurecon also worked with TfNSW on Smart Stations project, which focused on creating tangible ideas, enabled by technology, that optimise functionality, increase sustainability and create easier, more enjoyable customer journeys.
Aurecon has conducted rapid data capture surveys of the 13 stations to build 3D models of each site. Completed at an earlier stage in the design process than usual, these sophisticated models allow more effective optioneering to visualise what the upgraded station will look like, and how it will function. These models can be further developed for the detailed design stages, saving significant time and cost.
Several of the scoping designs have already been approved to proceed to the detailed design phase, including the heritage-listed Hawkesbury River Station, Wyee, Fairy Meadow, and Como.
The upgraded train stations will form part of the larger TAP initiative to create modern interchanges that are responsive to passenger needs, support an integrated rail network, and allow seamless transfers between all modes of travel.
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