Perth is one of the most car dependent cities on Earth. But most people want a more balanced, sustainable transport system, where we rely less on the car. We have choices to make about our future. Making transport more sustainable is a challenge for all of us - citizens, community groups, schools, businesses and local, state and federal government.

Local government has a key role in sustainable transport solutions. The last STC Transport Solutions Forum was at the Town of Vincent on 27 September 2007 and held in conjunction with WALGA. It was titled Local Government Responses to Peak Oil & Climate Change.

Our definition of sustainable transport is the one developed by the Canadian Centre for Sustainable Transportation: A sustainable transportation system is one that:

• allows the basic access needs of individuals and societies to be met safely and in a manner consistent with human and ecosystem health, and with equity within and between generations.
• is affordable, operates efficiently, offers choice of transport mode, and supports a vibrant economy.
• limits emissions and waste within the planet's ability to absorb them, minimizes consumption of non-renewable resources, limits consumption of renewable resources to the sustainable yield level, reuses and recycles its components, and minimizes the use of land and the production of noise.

The STC developed a submission to the WA's government climate change statement in February 2007- see here co2_policies_v2 582.00 Kb. This follows the Sustainable Transport briefing paper and declaration on what we wanted political parties to address at the 2005 State election. Download it  here

STC makes regular submissions to government enquiries. These can be viewed on this site. The most recent policy was the Alternate Fuels Policy developed in February 2007. In late 2003 STC launched two policies, one on bicycle transport (text version-35kb) and one on walking (text version-37kb). In these we make important proposals to be implemented by Federal, State and local governments to encourage greater levels of safe cycling and walking in Perth.
The most widely distributed policy adopted by the STC is on oil vulnerability and titled  Oil:Living with Less 127.00 Kb or the PDF of the actual brochure (672.12 Kb).

Information on STC's campaign in 2003 to make Australian governments more aware of the looming oil rollover and its impact on our transport and planning systems can be found here.

The STC organisied an exciting conference titled "Oil: Living with Less" in Perth on 9 August 2004 at the new Perth Convention Centre. Information about this conference (including speeches) can be found here.