[INSERT SUBJECT OF SUBMISSION]

Submission by [insert branch name], AITPM

About AITPM

AITPM (the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning & Management) is the leading national membership body representing all Australian Transport Community professionals and practitioners. AITPM members and stakeholders work in fields including transport planning, transport and traffic engineering, transport modelling, active travel, travel demand management and travel behaviour change. [If appropriate and desirable, add a sentence on your AITPM branch’s size / how long active, etc.]

AITPM members and stakeholders work together to ensure multimodal transport systems are designed, built and operated in ways that support healthy people, communities and economies in all parts of Australia. To set a strong foundation for this mission, AITPM has adopted a Policy and Principles Platform that addresses how AITPM will advocate on behalf of the broader Transport Community for the creation of successful transport systems. The AITPM Policy and Principles Platform is provided as Attachment 1 to this submission. See www.aitpm.com.au/policy/policy-platform for further information.

Introduction to submission

[This is what the Introduction should cover:

Make clear why your AITPM branch is taking the opportunity to make this submission, by linking it to relevant aspects of the AITPM PPP

Point out the substantive implications that the policy / plan / strategy / other proposal you are making a submission on has for transport system outcomes in your jurisdiction relating to sustainability, safety, efficiency, inclusivity, resilience and/or impact on place

Briefly mention (if it is not self-evident) the ways in which the policy / plan / strategy / other proposal your submission is focusing on could make it easier or harder for transport systems to deliver ‘healthy people, communities and economies’ in your jurisdiction.]

[Length of introduction to submission: ½ page maximum]

[Insert Submission section heading]

[This and any subsequent sections (add as needed, while keeping within an overall 3-4-page limit, not including attachments) should provide details on what your AITPM branch has to say about the policy / plan / strategy / other proposal.

Depending on the subject matter you are addressing, here are some ideas on ways to arrange the detailed content in your submission:

Under generic headings – eg...

Stated vision / goals / objectives / scope of what you are commenting on

Recommendations that it makes

Actions it proposes for implementation

Under specific themes that might already structure what you are commenting on or, in your view, provide a useful way of framing your submission – eg...

Timeframe (short / medium / long-term issues and actions)

Mode (for transport-specific subject matter)

Impact area (emissions / customer experience / social equity, for example)

Using AITPM PPP categories – eg...

Purpose (sustainability / prosperity / safety, etc)

Transport Community function (planning / modelling / design / engineering, etc).

Here are some additional tools you can use to organise your submission so that it communicates your feedback strongly, succinctly and with credibility:

Add further Submission section / Submission sub-section headings (see below; use the relevant Style in this template), possibly matched to headings in what you are commenting on

Use a table (see below) to summarise your comments in brief form against relevant content

Introduce one or two place-based case studies that demonstrate the point you want to make

Cite any supporting evidence sources as footnotes, including URLs

If essential, provide directly relevant documents as further attachments.

And don’t forget – if there is something you particularly like or support in what you are commenting on, say so!]

[Insert further Submission section headings as needed]

[Text]

[Insert Submission sub-section headings as needed]

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[Table template]

[Chapter / heading]	[Current recommendation / other content]	[Your feedback]
[Text]	[Text]	[Text]
[Text]	[Text]	[Text]
[Text]	[Text]	[Text]

[Insert branch name], Australian Institute of Traffic Planning & Management (AITPM)

[insert contact details +61 XXXXXXXXX

xxx@aitpm.com.au]

[insert date XX Month 20XX]

Attachment 1: AITPM Policy and Principles Platform

[Attachment 2 etc – insert as needed]

[Total length of submission: 3 pages preferred; 4 pages maximum]

[Example of footnote] AITPM (2023) Policy and Principles Platform. www.aitpm.com.au/policy/policy-platform