WELCOME TO RAIL FUTURES INSTITUTE

Rail Futures is an independent, non-partisan group formed to advocate sustainable rail solutions for public transport and freight problems. Our membership includes very experienced rail professionals, engineers and economists.


A plan to progressively re-balance Victoria’s population through targeted growth of regional cities, facilitated by parallel upgrading of the Regional Rail Passenger Network.

Download the plan (3.2mb PDF document)

OUR PRINCIPLES

  • We intend to act strategically, and contribute only to major debates
  • We undertake extensive research to achieve evidence-based outcomes
  • We intend to support rail projects where there are clear public interests reasons to do so
  • We wish to co-operate with any organisations that share our goals
  • We will support our advocacy with engineering and commercial reasoning
  • We will operate in a transparent manner