Light Rail Project Canberra

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Post peer review project: Light Rail Project Canberra
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Introduction
Description of the project
The Australian Capital Territory Government embarked on the Canberra city light rail
project with a partnership of Canberra Metro. The project is not yet completed rather the ACT
government is keep on developing the light rail network throughout Canberra. In order to help
the Canberra citizens by giving a much reliable, high quality and convenient public transport
facility that can connect the Canberra as a whole this project was developed (Nakanishi,
Nakamura & Kii, 2017). The light rail network was constructed in different stage.
From the city to towards Gunghlin was the first stage of the wide project that
fundamentally improved the way of live and people connection as well. The capital of the nation
is a rapidly growing city and at the same time hub of Canberra region. In order to sustainably
accommodate the future growth of the capital the light rail project was planned and implemented
for Canberra city (Nakanishinakamura & Kii, 2016). The Canberra light rail service was initiated
on 20th April, 2019 and the distance covered by the metro network is 12 kilometer. It is
comprises of 13 stops, 14 numbers of light rail vehicles and also 1 maintenance depot. The
project has delivered approximately under 20 years of availability public private partnership with
a the Canberra Metro.
Project successes
The first stage of the project was a successful one and completed within assigned budget
as well as work class benchmark. The projects helped to connect the city better, simulated the
urban renewals and also improved the living standard of people. The vision of the Canberra light
rail project that is “to boost Canberra’s sustainable development by improving and changing the
transport option, patterns of settlement and employment opportunities” was successfully reached
(Ruming, Mee & McGuirk, 2016). It is also identified that throughout the project development
life cycle period the government and the development authority has maintained their
coordination and team work considering all accurate project management prcatices.
Before commencing the project a delivery model was presented as a part of project
management practice. It successfully allowed the market authority to identify as well as attract

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the best suppliers. Not only this but also it helped to avoid the excessive need for large project
management office (PMO). The market shown their interest in this project and also gave it a size
similar to an integrated project (Mwakabole, Gurmu & Tivendale, 2019). The project ensures
future flexibility and also permitted future scope of modifications to the system arrangement.
From project management perspectives the selected project delivery model was accurate.
Project issues
However, during this period two major issues were also identified by the project
development authority. Firstly, “the requirement for better and also more sustainable transport
options for reducing the car dependencies and improving the transport capacity.” Secondly, “the
requirement for the sustainable urban form”
Summarize the three focus area you are going to discuss
After review of the light rail project based in Canberra it is identified that there are many
factors which worked behind the success of this network (Kenley, Harfield & Behnam, 2016).
However, among those many factors 3 different focus areas are chosen for this project and
elaborated in the below section.
Focus area 1: The Project delivery Model
Focus area 2: Stakeholder management plan activated by the Light rail project
Focus area 3: Risk management plan
Focus area 1: The Project delivery Model
After analyzing the detail project it is identified that, during the business case
development period a range of probable project delivery techniques were explored. After
analyzing many of such delivery model the project development committee decided to adopt and
maintain the PPP procurement project delivery model. This model was selected because this
model allows the ACT to retain the risks at an acceptable level even on a very complex
construction stage also (Balbontina et al., 2017). This risk treatment strategy was maintained
during the brown field development across 12 kilometer. PPP delivery model helped to maintain
a well as maintain and facilitate the different types of risks such as management risk, asset