Transport Innovation Hub hosts future transport plan launch in Macquarie Park

The Premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet, and Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport, Rob Stokes, launched a future transport strategy at the new Transport Innovation Hub in Macquarie Park last week.

The Transport Innovation Hub includes a demonstration space for state-of-the-art transport technology - from large format digital models, an augmented reality space and even autonomous all terrain robots from Boston Dynamics. It is based in Transport for NSW's 35,000sqm fully flexible workplace on Harvest Street, "The Glasshouse", in the heart of Macquarie Park innovation district.

Transport for NSW's Deputy Secretary for Customer Strategy and Technology, Joost de Kock, hailed the strategy at the launch event at the Transport Innovation Hub:

"This strategy maps out our journey as we move to adopt more transport options that are going to be more seamless, fairer and more efficient. In the next 40 years our population will grow by 40%, which is why we need to get ready to move to new transport modes now... This is all about how future generations will move about."

The wide-ranging strategy imagines a future where autonomous vehicles, more public transport and micromobility options like electric bikes are common, and Sydneysiders will work, live and play within 30 minutes of their destination.

As well as being home to leaders in the transport industry - including Alstom, Downer, Baraja and Transport for NSW - Macquarie Park is also home to 3 stations on Australia's first autonomous Metro rail line. At the same time the strategy was being launched, track laying on an extension to that Metro system was being completed in new tunnels beneath Sydney Harbour. When complete, journeys from Macquarie Park to Barangaroo are predicted will take just 18 minutes.