Five regional centres in Victoria will get better "commuter-style" train services under the Victorian Government's newly announced Regional Network Development Plan (RNDP).

Key points: Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Seymour, Traralgon the focus

Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Seymour, Traralgon the focus Long-term goal is to deliver trains every 20 mins in the peak and every 40 mins off-peak

Long-term goal is to deliver trains every 20 mins in the peak and every 40 mins off-peak Other centres, including Warrnambool and Bairnsdale, to get five services five days a week

Services to Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Seymour and Traralgon will get track upgrades, new signalling and new trains.

The long-term goal is to deliver trains at least every 20 minutes in the peak period and every 40 minutes in off-peak periods in the major centres.

In other regional centres, including Warrnambool, Bairnsdale, Albury-Wodonga, Echuca, Swan Hill and Shepparton, the target is to deliver five services a day, five days a week.

The idea is to improve the speed and reliability of transport in regional Victoria, and improve connections for bus and coach services.

The plan outlines long-, short- and medium-term plans for more trains, station improvements, and better bus and coach services.

Announcing the policy in Warragul, east or Melbourne, Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said the regional public transport system needed many improvements.

"Some of it is about making some policy change, some of it will require funding over a three to five to 10-year period of time," she said.

"This is the first ever long-term strategy for better public transport in our regions, with more services, improved stations and better bus and coach connections, to get people where they need to go quickly, reliably and safely."

The release of the new plan came after problems with excessive train wheel wear and boom gate cost taxpayers up to $60 million and headaches for commuters.

At one point about 20 per cent of train services on the Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo lines were out of action.