Macro-urban Form and Transport Energy Outcomes: Investigations for Melbourne

Urban transport - both freight and passenger - forms a significant proportion of global energy use, and is also a major contributor to greenhouse pollution. One way in which scientists, commentators and policy-makers are seeking to address this issue is to consider the role of urban form in transport energy consumption. This paper provides a summary of the Victorian Department of Infrastructure's investigations into the transport energy outcomes of a broad range of different urban form typologies found across Melbourne. Through the assessment of a number of metropolitan growth scenarios, it also examines the relationship between potential urban form patterns, the options for transport infrastructure and the resultant transport energy outputs.