Strategic plan 2026–2030
Delivering for 2032 and leaving a lasting legacy for Queensland
The Department of Transport and Main Roads supports the government's objectives for the community:
The strategic plan is underpinned by the 10-year Transport Coordination Plan.
Vision: Connected communities in a sustainable, thriving and inclusive Queensland.
Purpose: To provide reliable, resilient and responsive transport networks and services that are safe and accessible for everyone.
Our service areas
- Transport system investment planning and programming
- Transport infrastructure management and delivery
- Transport safety and regulation
- Customer experience
- Passenger transport services
- Transport infrastructure construction and maintenance.
Our commitments
- We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.
- We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land and waterways. We also acknowledge their ancestors and Elders both past and present. We are committed to reconciliation amongst all Australians.
Accessible and integrated
Objective 1: Accessible and integrated
A transport system that is accessible and provides connectivity
Performance indicators
- Integrated transport network
- Accessible passenger transport services
- Customer experiences
Strategies
- Plan and design our network and operations using universal design thinking in collaboration with customers and the community
- Enable customer-focused journeys by offering a choice of modes tailored to different transport tasks
- Deliver essential accessible infrastructure and services across the network to cater for growth
- Provide information to customers to help them make informed travel choices
Our contribution to the Queensland Government's objectives for the community
Safe and secure
Objective 2: Safe and secure
A transport system that is safe and secure
Performance indicators
- Safe transport system
Strategies
- Deliver a regulatory regime that enables safety and security
- Advance transport safety, through innovative planning, design, and use of technology
- Embed cyber security to protect information assets and personal data
Our contribution to the Queensland Government's objectives for the community
Efficient and productive
Objective 3: Efficient and productive
A transport system that enables economic prosperity
Performance indicators
- Asset optimisation
- Service efficiency
- Priority investments
Strategies
- Maintain existing assets to meet service standards and optimise whole-of-life asset value
- Maximise asset usage through operations and ensure service contract efficiency
- Make smart investments in new infrastructure, assets and services in partnership with industry
- Direct investment to critical needs and high-value initiatives through a coordinated financial framework
Our contribution to the Queensland Government's objectives for the community
Responsive and resilient
Objective 4: Responsive and resilient
A transport system that is responsive and resilient
Performance indicators
- Responsive transport network
- Resilient transport network
Strategies
- Use technology and data to drive integration and operational excellence
- Build our multi-modal network management capability
- Proactively manage network disruptions and disaster recovery efforts ensuring customers are informed
- Embed sustainability in whole-of-life and whole-of-network decision-making
Our contribution to the Queensland Government's objectives for the community
Engaged and focused
Objective 5: Engaged and focused
Engaged people and effective systems and processes delivering what matters
Performance indicators
- Employee engagement
- System performance
- Process efficiency
Strategies
- Manage and develop our resources effectively, to create a safe and thriving culture that supports the work of the organisation
- Demonstrate effective investment and delivery with time and cost certainty
- Deliver best practice corporate services and optimise business processes and systems
- Enable future-focused technologies and digital tools to support a productive workforce
Our contribution to the Queensland Government's objectives for the community
Risks and opportunities
Our risks
- Maintaining a safe transport system for our customers and community
- Developing workforce skills, capability and adaptability to meet TMR’s future needs
- Reducing the impact of supply chain disruption and unavailability of skilled labour
- Providing an accessible and integrated transport system
- Planning and responding to deliverability and affordability of critical transport infrastructure projects and future major events
- Maintaining sustainable ICT systems and protecting against cyber threats
- Funding and sustaining essential transport services and infrastructure
Our opportunities
- Maximising the value from data to improve planning and operational efficiency
- Optimising our capacity and capability in multi-modal network and major event management
We publish a set of strategic plan measures that align to our performance indicators.
Download the plan in Word or PDF format:
Public service values
Customers first
Ideas into action
Unleash potential
Be courageous
Empower people
Find out more about the Queensland public service values
Previous strategic plans
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2023–2027 (reviewed 2025–26)
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2023–2027 (revised 2024–25—April 2025)
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2023–2027
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2019–2023 (revised for 2022–23)
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2019–2023 (revised for 2021–22)
- Transport and Main Roads Strategic Plan 2019–2023 (revised for 2020–21)
- Last updated
- 2 July 2026