Key terms used throughout the Queensland Transport and Roads Investment Program publication include:
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Camera Detected Offence Program funds are used as a partial source of
funding for the Safer Roads Sooner Program and a number of other
safety-related special initiatives.
Cape York Region Package: A jointly funded initiative
between the Australian Government and Queensland Government to upgrade
critical infrastructure on the Cape York Peninsula. This program provides
improved access to Cape York; improved safety, reduced ongoing road
maintenance costs and improved community infrastructure; and employment,
training and business development opportunities for Indigenous and
non-Indigenous people.
Construction works: Works that enhance or
add to the value of a transport infrastructure asset. This includes
providing new formation, drainage structures and pavements where none
previously existed; upgrading the existing asset by realigning roads,
constructing bridges, improving intersections and installing traffic
signals, and widening works.
Corridor and minor safety enhancements: Works to improve
the safety and environment of the network. This includes improved
intersections, roadsides, signage, delineation, pedestrian and fauna
facilities.
Corridor, roadway and structures management: Funding for
miscellaneous asset management provisions such as inspection of structures,
improvements to environmental areas and data collection.
Cycle Network Grants: A program which provides funding to
local governments to accelerate delivery of the principal cycle network.
Funding is mostly provided on a dollar-for-dollar matched basis (50%). The
program is publicly known as the Cycle Network Local Government Grants
program.
Cycling infrastructure: The department plans, constructs, operates
and also provides grants to local governments for cycling facilities across
the state, including dedicated cycle paths and on-road bike lanes. Funding
is targeted at the state-wide delivery of high priority routes on the
principal cycle network on state and local roads.
Local government-controlled roads: Local
government-controlled roads are owned, managed and operated by local
governments across Queensland. State controlled roads and franchised roads,
such as toll roads, are not local government-controlled roads.
Local Network: The network categorisation for local
government-controlled roads and other local government transport
infrastructure.
Local Roads of Regional Significance (LRRS): Lower-order
state-controlled roads and higher-order local government-controlled roads
performing a similar function.
Maritime infrastructure: Includes boat ramps, pontoons,
jetties, floating walkways, dredging works and navigation aids, which are
managed and operated by the department.
Mode: The type of transport infrastructure used to connect
people, places and services. Modes of transport infrastructure include
road, rail, active transport, maritime, bus infrastructure, multi-modal
infrastructure and other options.
Natural disaster: A natural disaster is one or a
combination of the following rapid onset events – bushfire, earthquake,
flood, storm surge, landslide, tsunami, meteorite strike or tornado. Funds
may be provided by the Australian Government and Queensland Government to
reinstate parts of the transport network which have been subject to
disaster damage under declared emergency conditions.
Natural Disaster Resilience Program (betterment projects):
Betterment works to improve the resilience of disaster-damaged essential
public assets and mitigate against future damage. Projects meeting certain
funding criteria are joint funded (50:50) by the Australian Government and Queensland Government.
Outback Way: A 2,720km route that traverses Central
Australia, connecting Laverton in Western Australia with Winton in
Queensland via Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The condition of
the route varies, with sections of unsealed, single lane seal and dual lane
seal of differing standards and quality.
Public Private Partnership: A contract between the public
and private sectors, where the government pays the private sector to
deliver infrastructure and related services over the long-term. The private
provider builds the facility and operates and/or maintains it to specified
standards over a long period. The private provider usually finances the
project.
Queensland Transport Strategy (QTS): The Queensland
Transport Strategy provides a 30-year vision to transform the state's
transport system, to respond to customer preferences, global trends and
emerging technologies, helping steer investment.
Regional Transport Plans (RTP): Developed in partnership
with local governments, the RTPs provide guidance for the development of
the transport system across all areas of the state and satisfy the
objectives of the Transport Coordination Plan while maintaining consistency
with the State Infrastructure Strategy.
Rehabilitation: Activities that replace or restore the
pavement or bridge to its original condition for both surface and
structural components, at the existing width and on the existing formation.
Remote Roads Upgrade Pilot Program: An Australian
Government initiative that targets road improvements for regional
communities, and addresses significant deficiencies on key regional and
rural roads that limit community access, pose safety risks and impact the
economic development of the surrounding area.
Road Safety Minor Works: A minor works program that
distributes funding to respond to emerging local road safety needs.
Road Safety Program: A joint funded initiative between the
Australian Government and Queensland Government that targets road safety
treatments to reduce the risk of fatal and serious injury road crashes
across four key streams: regional roads; remote roads; urban roads; and
footpaths and cycleways.
Routine maintenance: Day-to-day maintenance of road
infrastructure assets to ensure the safe operational condition of the
network and to reduce its rate of deterioration.
Safer Roads Sooner: A minor capital works program that aims
to improve the safety of the state-controlled road network through the
implementation of high-benefit cost-effective, engineering countermeasures
and safety treatments that target known and potential high severity
(fatalities and serious injuries) crash sites at specific locations.
School Transport Infrastructure Program: Provides funding
to improve the safety and operation of schools through new or improved
infrastructure at the school and/or on the surrounding road network.
State-controlled roads: Roads declared to be controlled by
TMR, including the National Land Transport Network. Toll roads are not
state-controlled roads, rather they are operated by franchisees.
Statewide program: Includes funding commitments that cross
regional/district boundaries that will be prioritised and allocated to
specific areas over time. Also includes investments that cross
regional/district boundaries and investments delivered on a statewide
basis.
State Infrastructure Strategy (SIS): Outlines the
Queensland Government's strategic direction for the planning, investment
and delivery of infrastructure in Queensland. It includes a framework to
plan and prioritise sustainable infrastructure investment and delivery,
demonstrating the government's commitment to addressing the state's
infrastructure needs in a timely and cost-effective way, while working
within current funding constraints.
State Network: The network categorisation for other
state-controlled roads and other state-owned transport infrastructure.
Excludes the National Land Transport Network which is categorised under
National Network.
Strategic Plan 2023–2027: TMR's four-year strategic
planning document that provides the shorter-term view and strategic
direction of the department. The plan's five key priority areas are Safe,
Responsive, Efficient, Sustainable and Accessibility. The plan ensures that the department is able to anticipate and respond to the increasing customer demands.
Traffic management enhancements: Provision of both active
and passive intelligent transport and traffic management treatments
including, but not limited to, traffic monitoring, traveller information
and traffic signalling. This program also includes road lighting
enhancements.
Traffic operations: The use of tools and
techniques such as traffic signals, congestion management, incident
management and traveller information systems to provide road user services
with a major focus on real-time operation.
Transport Coordination Plan 2017–2027: Provides the
overarching framework for strategic planning and management of transport
resources in Queensland, as required by the Transport Planning and
Coordination Act 1994. The Transport Coordination Plan identifies 5
objectives to help achieve TMR's vision: customer experience and
affordability, community connectivity, efficiency and productivity, safety
and security and environment and sustainability.
Transport Infrastructure Act 1994: This legislation
ensures the Queensland Government has strategic oversight over the
provision and operation of all transport infrastructure. The Act
establishes a regime under which a safe and effective system of roads,
miscellaneous transport infrastructure, rail, ports, air, public maritime
transport, buses and light rail is planned and managed effectively.
Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS): The
grants program through which TMR provides funding to local governments, for
the development of transport related infrastructure.
Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994: This
legislation establishes a regime under which overall transport
effectiveness and efficiency is ensured through strategic planning and
management of transport resources.
