ABSTRACT
The 'Gold Coast' is Australia's sixth largest city, located on the mid-east coast of Australia, about an hour south of the State capital, Brisbane, and home to half a million people. The distinctive 'Gold Coast' name is the first of many ways this city differs from other major Australian cities. After a decade of planning and construction, the first stage of the Gold Coast Light Rail opened in 2014. As the first stage of the Gold Coast Light Rail was being completed, the City produced a new transport strategy, setting out high-level principles for integrated transport and land use planning and flagging a new parking plan. The Gold Coast Parking Plan followed, and this highlighted the opportunity to build on the City's investment in real time/place technology with a proposed transition to demand-responsive pricing, sweetened with local parking revenue sharing to fund place/access improvements.
