About this report

Scope

This is Transurban's third sustainability report. It covers our community, employee, environmental and customer activities from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008, unless otherwise stated.

We intend to continue to report annually on our sustainability progress.

Most of the data and information in this report comes from our Australian roads as they make up 96 per cent of assets worldwide. The report covers Transurban corporate offices in Australia and our 100 per cent owned toll roads—CityLink in Melbourne and Hills M2 in Sydney.

While we are the customer service and tolling operator for Westlink M7 in Sydney, at the time of the report, we owned 47.5 per cent of the road (in August 2008, we increased our stake to 50 per cent). Westlink Motorway Limited has provided information on key aspects of their business, which is not covered by the Sustainability Report's assurer, Net Balance Management Group.

In Sydney, we also have interests in three other motorways—the Eastern Distributor (75.15 per cent stake), the M4 (50.61 per cent) and M5 (50 per cent). In FY08, we started collecting environmental performance data for these roads.

This year, we have started reporting on the environmental and social impacts of Pocahontas 895 in Virginia in the US, which we acquired the right to operate and manage in June 2006. We have also included information on our Capital Beltway HOT Lanes project in Washington DC, which reached financial close in December 2007 and is now under construction.

Some of the reported data is collected by our major road operations contractors—TransLink Operations Pty Ltd (TLO) for CityLink and Bilfinger Berger Services (BBS) for Hills M2. We believe that the work they carry out for our assets forms part of our social and environmental footprint.

Target audiences

Our audiences for the Sustainability Report are both internal and external stakeholders. They include employees, customers, community, investors, analysts, governments, non-government organisations and opinion leaders.

In this report, all currencies are expressed in Australian dollars unless otherwise stated.

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