| Organisation name |
Roads and Maritime Services |
| Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
| Organisation fields |
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| Description |
This state department plans, develops and implements pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. It also provides a funding service by which NSW local governments can get assistance with such activities. |
| Commenced Work |
More than ten years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Policy development
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Research to better understand healthy built environments
- Translating research into policy
- Education - formal courses
- Capacity building / staff training
- Information resource
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Tools for practitioners
- Provision of physical infrastructure
- Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
- Other - Funding
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| Key objectives of HBE activities |
- To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
- To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active |
- Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
- Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
- Improving connectivity
- Improving accessibility
|
| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities |
- Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
- Influencing proximity to places of employment
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| The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Delivery of the 2012/13 NSW Pedestrian and Bicycle Programs - see http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/about_bike_network/improving_the_bike_network.html for bicycle project details.
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| Target Population |
- General population
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Older people
- Women
- Indigenous people
- People with disabilities
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
- All of the state
- Urban areas
- Rural areas
- Remote areas
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| Website |
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/ |
