TCPA Submissions

September 1993 - September 2001

Copies of these submissions may be borrowed free of charge by any TCPA member. Non-members will be provided with a copy for a nominal fee to cover cost of copying and distribution. Contact David Littlewood (tel +61 3 9534 5379, email david@littlewo.com) for details.

• To the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, 'Comments on the draft Transporting Melbourne', Ray Walford, December 1996
• Submission to Victorian Department of Infrastructure's Review of Issues of the Urban Fringe, David Rayson, October 1996
• Submission to Federal and Victorian Transport Ministers relating to Ministerial conference on Australian Road Rules, 'The Need for 40kph Local Area Speed Limits', Alan Parker, October 1996
• Submission to Victorian Department of Infrastructure's Review of Design Controls, Robin Dunstone and Ray Walford, September 1996
• Information paper to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 'Bullbars Should be Banned', Alan Parker, July 1996
• Submission to National Greenhouse Response Strategy, 'National Greenhouse Response Strategy (NGRS)', Alan Parker, May 1996
• Submission to the Working Party on the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity, Commonwealth Department of Human Services, 'Submission on the Prevention of Overweight', Alan Parker, October 1995
• Submission to Accessible Public Transport Standards Taskforce, 'Bicycle Access for People who are Lame', Alan Parker, September 1995
• Submission to the Victorian Local Government Board, 'The Role and Function of Councillors', David Sauer, June 1995
• To the Urban Infrastructure Study - part of the Australian Urban and Regional Development Review by the Commonwealth Government, 'Bicycle Infrastructure', Alan Parker, June 1995
• Submission in Response to the Proposed Australian Road Rules, Alan Parker, February 1995
• To Victorian Department of Planning and Development, 'Comments on Development Framework for Victoria; Issues Paper', Ray Walford, David Sauer and Colleen Hunter, Feb 1995
• To Inquiry into the Revision of Speed Limits by the Road Safety Committee of the Victorian Parliament, 'A 40kph Speed Limit is essential for the safety of non-motorised road users', Alan Parker, September 1994
• To Victorian Department of Planning and Development, 'Final Response to the Melbourne Metropolitan Strategy Discussion Paper', Ray Walford and Peter Hill, September 1994
• To Victorian Department of Planning and Development, 'A First Submission and response to the Melbourne Metropolitan Strategy', Alan Parker, July 1994
• To Victorian Department of Planning and Development, Submission on Better Cities- Geelong Public Transport Interchange project, Ray Walford, May 1994
• To Industry Commission, Submission to Inquiry into the Australian Petroleum Industry, Peter Hill, May 1994
• To Federal Treasurer's Employment Opportunities Committee, 'Implementing the National Bicycle Strategy', Alan Parker, January 1994
• To Victorian Public Transport Forum, 'Collection and Availability of Passenger Travel Data from Automated Fare Collection System', Ray Walford, Peter Hill & David Sauer, Dec 1993
• To Australian National Railways, 'Melbourne-Sydney Service Development', TCPA, Oct 93
• The Review of Development Contributions by Victorian Department of Planning and Development, Comments, by Ray Walford, TCPA September 1993

Articles written by TCPA members September 1993 - September 2001

• Parker, A. A. (2001) "Making cycling and walking safer in New Zealand and Australia: learning from the Netherlands experience,"  Conference papers, P155 to 170, NZ Cycling Conference; Transport  for Living  2001, 21st and 22nd September Christchurch.
• Parker, A. A. (2001) "Making Walking and Cycling Safer: lessons for Australia from the Netherlands Experience". 24th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Zero Road toll a dream or realistic vision. Hobart Tasmania 17-20 april 2001.On CD rom.
• Parker, A A (2001) "A Non-motorised User's Perspective on Safety Issues and World Best Non-motorised Safety Practice in the Netherlands", Papers of the proceedings International Walking Conference 20th-22 nd February 2001, Perth Western Australia. On CD rom.
• Parker, A. A. (2001) "Making Walking and Cycling Safer: lessons for Australia from the Netherlands Experience". 24th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Zero Road toll a dream or realistic vision. Hobart Tasmania 17-20 april 2001.On CD rom.
• Parker, A A (2001) "A Non-motorised User's Perspective on Safety Issues and World Best Non-motorised Safety Practice in the Netherlands", Papers of the proceedings International Walking Conference 20th-22 nd February 2001, Perth Western Australia. On CD rom.
• Parker, A.A. June (2000),  An integrated transport, health & environmental policy will increase everyday walking and cycling, CD Rom proceedings Australian Pacific Healthy Cities Conference, Canberra 26 to 28 June 2000. On CD rom.
• Parker, A.A. May 1999 Green products to help move the world beyond oil: power assisted bicycles, Proceedings of Solar 99, 37th annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Deakin University, Geelong Dec 1-4 1999.12 page 5 figures.
• Parker, A.A. May 1999 An integrated transport, health & environmental policy will make everyday walking and cycling safer.1999 Road Safety Research Policing and Education conference, Canberra 28-29November.10 pages 8 figures.
• Parker, A.A.1999 The missing link between sustainable passenger transport and national environmental planning. p 1019 to 1036  13 figures. 23rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, Perth September 1999.
• Parker, A.A. May 1998. "Pedestrian safety: a non-motorised user's perspective", Pedestrian safety conference, Australian College of Road Safety 29th & 30th June 1998, Melbourne, 7 figures,  11 pages.
• Parker, A.A. March 1998. Roundabouts on main roads a non-motorised users perspective (See also the Dutch roundabout  photograph on the front cover).Road and Transport  Research, March 1998,vol 7.No 1. Australian Transport Research Ltd.
• 'Bicycle Friendly Roads are Safer for All Users', Alan Parker, presentation to Velo Australis International Bicycle Conference, Perth, November 1996

  Notes:
  
  

  1. published in the name of the individual, not with reference to TCPA.
  2. "Cyclist" is the journal of the Bicycle Federation of Australia.
  3. "Urban Futures" is published by Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development.
  
  
• 'Investing in clean air - Selling the Commonwealth on the need to fund bicycle infrastructure', Alan Parker, Cyclist, August-September 1995 (Note 1)
• Cranbourne planning article, John Dee, The Age {reference to be identified}(Note 1)
• 'Cycling and urban travel - How much society could save by substituting bicycle trips for short car trips', Alan Parker, Urban Futures No.18 June 1995
• 'Free Bikelockers at Brisbane Stations', Alan Parker, Cyclist, April-May 1995
• 'Bullies with bullbars?', Alan Parker, Cyclist, February-March 1995
• 'Green Economics - How much society saves by substituting bicycle trips for short car trips', Alan Parker, Cyclist, February-March 1995 *
• 'A billion bucks for bikes', Alan Parker, Cyclist, October-November 1994
• 'Locker-bike disaster', Alan Parker, Cyclist, June-July 1994
• 'The fast track to more jobs, A Keynesian approach to civilising our cities and building bikeways', Alan Parker, Cyclist, April-May 1994.
• Bicycles and a rail revival - how to put the trains back on track', Alan Parker, Cyclist, Oct-Nov 93.

Other Articles / information available from Town and Country Planning Association Inc.

• Space Magazine (TCPA's journal, various issues to 1989)
• TCPA Bulletin, Vol 1 No. 1 June 1994 - Vol 3 No.2 June 1996.
• False Economies in Transport, a review of some current government transport policies and the balance of payments implications of Australian energy sources, Alan Parker, August 1996
• Charter for Planning, Planning Charter Working Group, October 1996
• Planning Crisis conference papers, a selection of papers presented at TCPA's July 1996 conference - various authors on topics relating to planning process, urban fringe, transport and parklands.