More than 5,700 staff and 35,000 students travel to UNSW making it the largest single destination for people in eastern Sydney. Further projections forecast another 2,300 jobs being created in the Randwick Education and Health Centre, which include the Prince of Wales Hospital. This population growth is expected to further increase transport pressures.

Each day more than 60,000 trips are made to and from UNSW. Most of these trips are made on buses.

The provision of high speed, high capacity, accessible and frequent public transport links between the Randwick Education and Health Centre, Sydney CBD and Sydney Airport is critical to the emergence of the Centre as a biomedical and bioengineering research and development hub of international significance.

The University is also firmly backing the proposal for a single ticketing system on public transport and the creation of a new east-west rail line (the Anzac Line) to link the campus, Randwick Racecourse and Kingsford Smith Airport to the city and the Sydney transport grid. UNSW is now the only university in Sydney not directly serviced by train. A rail service would dramatically reduce travelling times and car use, free up local roads and provide a valuable transport connection that would eliminate sizeable amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.

Developing special bus corridors, particularly along traffic-choked Anzac Parade and Allison Road, are critical if the average bus speeds of 25 km/h are ever going to be raised. Another project being promoted by UNSW is the creation of a bus interchange at Eddy Avenue outside Central Railway. This would be designed to protect the vast numbers of people travelling to and from UNSW from inclement weather while they wait for buses and also improve the quality of the whole experience of travelling by bus.

UNSW is the single largest bus service user in New South Wales with buses moving more people to and from the campus than at any other centre.