Rail
A nationally integrated, autonomous-capable rail network on a common modular carriage platform — articulated, variable-gauge, energy-resilient rolling stock built to a single sovereign standard.
Sovereign national infrastructure
Autonomous. Regional. Integrated. Articulated.
A sovereign Australian national infrastructure programme. One programme unifying rail, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications and the places they serve — built, owned and standardised in Australia.
ARIA
Hamilton, Newcastle NSW · Hunter Region origin
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The programme
ARIA is a generational infrastructure undertaking that began as a Hunter Region transit proposal and has scaled to a national, sovereign programme of 235 corridors covering 47,836 km across every Australian jurisdiction.
Rather than treating rail, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications as separate projects, ARIA integrates them into a single coordinated delivery — a common technology platform, a single set of standards, and an Australian-controlled financing and industrial base.
The result is a network designed as one system: 235 routes, 374 network access points, the eleven sovereign factories that build its rolling stock and the precincts it unlocks, sequenced together across eight jurisdictions under a single capital envelope of A$487.78 billion (P50).
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Infrastructure pillars
Manufacturing
Eleven sovereign manufacturing nodes producing rolling stock, modular rail systems, buses, civil construction and resource equipment — onshore industrial capability retained in Australia.
Energy
A clean-energy backbone with sovereign retail capability, firming arrangements and a green-hydrogen transition pathway, sequenced to a net-zero programme target.
Telecommunications
A dedicated programme telecommunications and data backbone — interoperable signalling, network automation and a national sovereign data strategy.
Transit-Oriented Development
Precinct-scale development anchored to the network — housing, skills academies and economic uplift built around corridor and node investment.
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The numbers
Current controlled baseline · all earlier baselines superseded
235
routes
National route network
47,836
km
Integrated corridor length
374
stations
Network access points
8
jurisdictions
Coordinated delivery
A$487.78
billion P50
Programme capital envelope
11
nodes
Sovereign manufacturing
~10,200
MSM fleet
Incl. ~1,800 variable-gauge units
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National footprint
Eight jurisdictions. One standard. A continental network anchored to sovereign manufacturing nodes and corridor precincts.
Per-jurisdiction breakdown · Wave 6.3 · ARIA-RJR-001 Rev 3.1 Annex F · 235 routes / 47,836 km
| Jurisdiction | Routes | Network km | Capital (P50) |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSW New South Wales | 68 | 11,094 | A$100.91B |
| VIC Victoria | 29 | 4,499 | A$34.33B |
| QLD Queensland | 37 | 7,993 | A$80.74B |
| WA Western Australia | 25 | 5,760 | A$112.08B |
| SA South Australia | 24 | 4,102 | A$45.14B |
| NT Northern Territory | 18 | 3,820 | A$40.00B |
| TAS Tasmania | 14 | 1,191 | A$17.05B |
| ACT Australian Capital Terr. | 5 | 246 | A$2.57B |
| TJ Cross-border (TJ) | 15 | 9,131 | A$54.96B |
| National total | 235 | 47,836 | A$487.78B |
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NODE 01
Broadmeadow — the founding ARIA node, anchoring precinct, academy and maintenance capability.
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ORIGIN
Hunter Region — the programme's genesis, scaled from a regional transit proposal to national delivery.
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REACH
A coordinated network spanning eight jurisdictions plus 15 cross-border corridors on a single sovereign technology platform.
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Broadmeadow Masterplan
ARIA Node 01 — a 580 hectare integrated master plan delivering 20,200+ apartments across 48 towers, a four-venue sporting precinct, FINA aquatic centre, and an energy-independent rail-loop urban district.
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Broadmeadow goes first. The Integrated Master Plan exceeds the NSW 313 ha Place Strategy by 85%, more than doubles its venue seats, delivers 2.6× its affordable-housing commitment, and reaches 95–98% on-precinct energy self-sufficiency.
The deck walks through the spatial framework, residential uplift, the four-venue sports programme (Multi-Code Oval 45k→60k, MJS Rectangular 30k→40k, ARIA Indoor Arena 15k retractable, FIH Olympic Hockey Hub), Schedule 7 mandatory design guidelines, and a 2026–2040+ delivery staging anchored by the A$1.36B Master Interchange opening in 2028.
- Precinct area
- 580 ha
- Residential towers
- 48
- Apartments
- 20,200+
- Venue seats
- 75k → 100k
- Annual visits
- 1.8–2.2M
- Energy self-suff.
- 95–98%
- Affordable
- 13% · 2,626
- Interchange opens
- 2028
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What it commits to
Sovereign
Australian-controlled financing, manufacturing and standards
Net zero
Programme net-zero pathway with staged firming
Workforce
Steady-state national employment at programme maturity
Accelerated
Modular delivery model compressing build timelines
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Documents & plans
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