Scoresby Corridor / EastLink Studies

VLC was commissioned by the Victorian Government to undertake all aspects of the travel demand modelling in the Scoresby corridor to the east of Melbourne. This entailed involvement in three separate studies:

• Scoresby Corridor/Freeway Feasibility Study;
• Scoresby Corridor Environmental Impact Assessment; and
• Scoresby Corridor Integrated Transport Study/Business Planning.

VLC's role in these various studies included responsibility for:

• preparation of detailed traffic forecasts under different toll regimes, including assessment of optimal toll levels (ie. revenue maximisation);
• assessment of the financial implications of a variety of commercial vehicle tolling strategies;
• identification of the patronage implications of major public transport improvements in the corridor and in the vicinity of the corridor (eg. light rail in the freeway reservation, extension of the Glen Waverley line, enhanced express rail operation on the Ringwood line);
• analysis of the effects of public transport improvements on toll revenue;
• economic and financial evaluation of the major project options and optimisation of the staging of freeway construction;
• effects of tolling on social returns realised (ie. cost/benefit analysis);
• effects of the project on urban form - that is, likely changes in the pattern of residential and employment growth in the corridor following freeway construction.

During the latter stages of the most recent of these studies DoI and VLC jointly modified the model's outputs to reflect DoI's economic evaluation methodology. DoI and VLC also jointly developed processes and protocols enabling mass transfers of model results for DoI to analyse further.