The Airport Link Railway utilises innovative solutions to a number of issues associated with underground development and transport infrastructure planning._x000D_
It is typical of the major change underway in the country's rail and air transport industry. It involves the private sector providing transport facilities in competition with the public sector, a convergence of planning and transport imperatives, the use of the most technologically advanced engineering practices to minimise construction impacts on the community and a commercialised way of developing and maintaining railway infrastructure and services.