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Improving public transport service: Hobart – A corridors case study

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Andrea Luquesi Scott

Hobart faces more traffic congestion problems and slower public transport unless city planners make sensible land-use and transport decisions going forward. This report finds that Hobart is very low density and car dependent, and that structural changes in the economy were leading to the highest productivity jobs being located in central or inner parts of the city. The study also found that jobs were moving in at the same time as people were moving out for cheaper housing, and Hobart’s fringe densities were as low as they went in Australian cities.

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