Scenario planning: 4seeable futures

The Department of Main Roads and Queensland Transport recognise that the future is far from certain. The unprecedented pace of change means that organisations, such as ours, cannot simply rely on extrapolations of past trends in planning for the future.

Scenario planning helps us to understand the forces that drive and shape the future. By telling stories about plausible futures, scenario planning forces decision makers to consider their plans against a range of possible outcomes.

The process jointly undertaken by Main Roads and Queensland Transport over a six month period, resulted in the development of four scenarios, SuperCity, Coastal Bloom, Carbon Crunch and Global Bust. The 4seeable futures publication below outlines these scenarios.

  1. Introduction (PDF, 563 KB)
    - Foreword
    - Contents
    - Section 1: scenario planning process
    - Section 2: research findings
  2. Section 3 (PDF, 418 KB)
    - The transport portfolio scenarios
    - Bibliography
    - Interviewees
  3. The complete report (PDF, 908 KB)

Last updated: 14 June 2009