Research into working from home during the coronavirus pandemic shows how to get the benefits of commuting, while avoiding the downsides.
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Education fuelled extraordinary growth in Western Sydney’s professional services workforce, but their jobs aren’t local. More than 300,000 commute to work outside the region.
The change in our behaviour in response to COVID-19 has created an opportunity to build on this moment and transform our local neighbourhoods into vibrant mixed-use centres of activity.
Between home and work is a window of time and space where we can choose our distractions. Staring out the train window, scrolling the news or perhaps listening to podcasts. We miss it.
Low-income and minority groups are often reliant on cheaper modes of transport, but many find cycling to work problematic.
Neighborhood characteristics like pollution from busy roads, widespread public transit use and lack of community-based health care are putting certain communities at greater risk from COVID-19.
Some new habits we’ve seen emerging during the pandemic could help us solve tricky problems like traffic congestion, which have challenged our cities for a long time.
After the ‘world’s biggest work-from-home experiment’, many people (and their employers) might decide they needn’t commute every day. If even a fraction do that, infrastructure needs will change.
Southern governors are starting to reopen their economies at the same time COVID-19 cases are spreading through the rural South.
More workplaces are allowing employees to telecommute, but there are still barriers to more flexible arrangements.
A breakdown in the road or rail systems often causes commuter chaos in Australia. Some overseas cities are more resilient because they have other options – and our bicycle network could give us that.
Net benefits depend on how workers use the long weekend.
Average commuting times for Australians have increased by 23% in 15 years. And those with long commutes are less satisfied with their work, working hours, work-life balance and even pay.
While governments focus on how to ease congestion and make affordable housing more accessible for workers in our biggest cities, fast rail could be a mixed blessing for regional cities.
Workers with long commutes are more likely to become sick. They also receive less net income (after deducting travel costs) and less leisure time.
When a city gets to a certain size, it starts to make sense to have multiple centres of activity, and three are planned for Sydney. So what needs to be done to bring the city closer to this goal?
In Sydney, 44 of 178 train stations have a single side entrance. It adds up to 12 minutes of daily travel time for people walking the long way to their platform. It’s enough to make some drive instead.
The Commuter Car Park Fund announced in the budget sounds big, but is likely to create only around 30,000 extra spaces – a marginal benefit for Australia’s 1.2 million daily public transport users.
Minorities are driving the bicycling boom, but bike infrastructure investments often neglect their needs. A new study explores what riders in low-income and minority neighborhoods want.
Build it and they will come: when cities plan for bike lanes, it results in more bicyclists and encourages a bicycle economy.
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Design and Computation, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, Climate Resilience Living Lab, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Neil G Sipe est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Infrastructure Management, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
