While called a transportation plan,
it was heavily skewed towards roads. We need the type of city-shaping thinking that underpinned the plan, but today’s plans must match 21st-century priorities.
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Unsolicited market proposals are not transparently assessed. Infrastructure should be built to serve the public interest, not shaped by its private backers, but the checks to ensure this are broken.
A whole range of social and technological changes could revolutionise how we travel in the coming decades.
Scenarios based on a survey of Adelaide commuters and analyses of traffic flows show it’s possible the congestion could get worse in the transition to driverless vehicles.
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.
Two-thirds of surveyed workers work from home one day a week on average, but could do at least half their work out of the workplace. If they commuted less often, congestion could be greatly reduced.
We have learnt to be wary of big data, but it can also be your friend: one platform combines and analyses data about housing, jobs and transport to reveal very useful information about living in Perth.
Instead of spending ever more on roads, we can learn from Vancouver’s use of congestion as a ‘friend’ in managing the development of transport networks and of the city itself.
To cut emissions within the 12 years or so we have left to avoid disastrous global warming, we will need to change our old transport habits, using a combination of strategies to achieve this.
Whichever party wins, Victoria’s new government will have promised the biggest transport infrastructure project in Australian history. So what are the promises and are they backed by proper assessment?
Road traffic injuries are one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
Smart roads in Africa could help reduce the impact of flooding and other disasters that affect rural communities.
In the election bidding wars, parties commit billions to transport projects, often before all the work needed to justify these has been done. More cost-effective alternatives hardly get a look-in.
UK government minister Liz Truss says upping the motorway speed limit will increase productivity. Let’s look at the facts.
Various attempts have been made to complete Cape Town’s Foreshore Freeway scheme. A new approach is needed.
The NSW government will spend more than $23 billion on toll road, and recoup just $4 billion by selling it.
It can feel much faster to get the bus – but that could all be a matter of perspective.
Top tips from transport academics: target the second, consider the first and ignore the third.
Trains and trams get most attention, but ‘tweaking’ bus transit can transform cities. Buses can be more cost-effective and deliver better service, especially for small to mid-sized cities.
Analysis of the business cases for three of the biggest projects deemed “high priority” by Infrastructure Australia raises questions about the process.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Senior fellow, King's College London
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Professor of Public Transport, Director Public Transport Research Group, Monash University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
