Creating Streets for People
People are complex, and communities more so. This session explores the challenges of designing and planning streets for people and showcases international best practice and case studies.
Session Outline
- Session Chair
Ashleigh Ballantyne, AECOM - Finding inclusivity in the Counts - uncovering insights into active transport trends beyond the CBD commute - Pending DOT Exec Director Approval (tbc by AECOM / DOT this week)
Ashleigh Ballantyne
AECOM - Analytics Consultant
Ashleigh is a data scientist with a background in statistics, and has been working as an Analytics Consultant with AECOM’s Analytics & Simulation team for the past 2 years. Ashleigh has a keen interest in ESG projects, with a history of working with water and transport data.
Co-Author(s)
Liza Picton | Department of Transport WA
Liza is a behaviour change practitioner who currently leads the Evaluation team at Department of Transport and helps deliver strategic research, evaluation and insights to inform behaviour change and built environment programs. Liza is a storyteller, who places value on creating a narrative from data and sharing this with others.
Teresa Matassa | AECOM
Teresa is an experienced transport advisor with a strong focus on strategy and design outcomes for active mobility networks, leading a range of active transport evaluation and analysis projects, cycling model development projects, and design focused on user experience.
Finding inclusivity in the Counts - uncovering insights into active transport trends beyond the CBD commute - Pending DOT Exec Director Approval (tbc by AECOM / DOT this week)
PENDING APPROVAL
Over the last decade, the Western Australian government has developed an extensive network of automatic bicycle counters. AECOM and DoT have collaborated on a holistic approach to analyse this valuable data and gain insights on bike riding surges and declines across the network, including activity of people who can often be excluded from typical active transport analysis.
While large variations in bike riding activity have been observed over recent years, there is an overall trend of growth across the network particularly for sites away from the CBD. Further insight on active transport trends is provided by DoT’s sentiment and behavioural research on people’s active transport attitudes, perceptions, and use over time.
Adam Wilmot, GHD - Road Safety Insights using Compass IoT - Regional STiLS Evaluation
Adam Wilmot
GHS - Senior Traffic Engineer
Adam is a highly experienced transport professional involved in the planning, design, and delivery of some of WA's major road and rail infrastructure in recent years. Adam has been in a leadership role on major infrastructure projects often involving the early and cooperative involvement of designers and constructors in integrated team environments. Adam brings the benefit of his wide experience combined with a collaborative and people-focused approach to delivering the best project outcomes.
Co-Author(s)
Nithin Venkat
Nithin is a proven and qualified data scientist, specialising in business intelligence, data transformations and advanced data processing techniques.
Nithin works closely with clients across various industry sectors to understand their workflow and help leverage Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence solutions to solve their most critical problems.
Proficient in translating business requirements into Interactive Reports and helping to make business decisions based on curated analysis.
Farn Khung
Farn has had 7 years’ experience working in both traffic engineering and transport design. He has a range of experience working on projects varying from traffic impact assessments, car park design, concept and functional layout plans, traffic signal plans, construction traffic management plans and event management plans.
Road Safety Insights using Compass IoT - Regional STiLS Evaluation
As a collaboration and innovation piece, GHD has been working with Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (DTP) to utilise the emerging vehicle telemetric data from Compass IoT. This data provides vehicle performance information at points on the road network from vehicles constructed after 2019. Insights from this data has been used to evaluate whether a program to install traffic calming devices in numerous regional communities around Victoria has delivered “safe travel”.
This new data source has allowed GHD to look at road safety from a different perspective, obtaining different metrics and insights that are valuable tools which can be used to influence decision makers, planner and designers to improve road safety outcomes across Victoria.
Eric Rivers, Arup - User experience design (UX) is the most important planning tool you might not know about
Eric Rivers
Arup - Associate Principal
Eric Rivers is an Associate Principal in Arup’s Sydney office, experienced in the planning, design and analysis of people movement. As Arup's Australasian Lead for Pedestrian Experience Design, he is responsible for pedestrian planning, modelling and user experience business in the region.
Co-Author(s)
Adrian Wiggins
Adrian is a design leader with practice areas in user-centred design, team collaboration, co-design collaboration, stakeholder engagement, product and service design, and agile.
Over a 25-year career, he has led the strategic and detailed design of new digital assets, products and services across diverse sectors. At Arup he brings these design skills to business cases, policy, programs, planning and design for the places, transport and cities that people care about and love.
Structured, collaborative techniques, combined with evidence-based design research and robust frameworks are at the heart of what he does. He helps project teams to understand the user customer, community, place, network and technology context that defines the problem to be solved, to discover the opportunities for new, sustainable value and to define the vision, objectives and key results for their assets, and to decide roadmap for investment.
He is known for his curiosity, creativity and energy, as well as his ability to facilitate inclusive, productive, conclusive and enjoyable online and offline workshops that deliver consensus-driven, outcome-led design decisions.
User experience design (UX) is the most important planning tool you might not know about
Is user experience design a part of your toolkit when planning transport networks? Do you know who your customers are, their needs, and how to help them make sustainable transport choices? Customers make choices all the time. When choosing transport, we want them to make the least carbon intensive trip possible. How do we consider their needs in a way that promotes that preferred solution? Through case studies and evidence, this presentation will outline issues we encounter when we fail to use UX in transport planning. The presentation will also suggest a framework for applying UX in the Transport sector to help achieve better public transport designs and better integration. By understanding people, we can create more attractive product.
Nick Veitch, VLC - Using People Movement Data to guide the delivery of Movement and Place frameworks
Nick Veitch
VLC - Managing Director
As the Managing Director, Nick’s role is to ensure VLC continues to be an industry leader in transport advisory, helping clients solve complex transport problems.
Co-Author(s)
Ali Inayathusein | VLC
| As Executive Director (Modelling and Analytics), Ali ensures that we have a coordinated approach to understanding client needs, leading our efforts to bring new research, data and analytical techniques to drive the evidence base for infrastructure planning and policy making. |
Using People Movement Data to guide the delivery of Movement and Place frameworks
Movement and Place frameworks take a multi-faceted, place-based approach to designing transport networks and the public spaces that they create and impact. Optimising these spaces requires a holistic and granular understanding of:
- How people move through these places
- How they move to and from them
- How they move within them
We show how mobile phone-derived location data (People Movement Data) can be used to analyse each of the dimensions described above through a range of case studies in different Australian cities.
Sam Williams, PJA - Are Engineers the Enemy of Placemakers?
Sam Williams
PJA - Director
An innovative thinker who has over 14 years' experience providing civil engineering, infrastructure, sustainable drainage and engineering advice for regeneration and new development projects. A proven engineer who is passionate about early engagement within all developments.
Are Engineers the Enemy of Placemakers?
Civil Engineers and can be referred to as the thorn in the shoe of placemakers. Requiring more roadspace, increasing the size of intersections, trees being removed and value engineering all being casualties of the engineering process.
Is this the necessary evil of developments, are standards out of date, or do engineers need to be more flexible in their approach. These are the questions we look to explore and understand the true issues to unlocking better places through great design.
Sonja Hayes, PJA - "Placemaking" - Necessary, or Not?
Sonja Hayes
PJA - Associate
Sonja is a traffic engineer, with over 14 years experience. She began her career in road safety in Wellington, NZ, and has recently moved toward transport planning, with a keen interest in active travel and placemaking alongside road safety. She is a mother of 4 and relocated to Australia in 2012.
"Placemaking" - Necessary, or Not?
Placemaking as a dedicated expert subject has stirred up debate; surely engineers, planners and architects should include “place” elements as a stock-standard inclusion in all designs. Is a specialist field warranted? How are projects benefitting from expert guidance in an area that is somewhat grey in its definition?
Evelyn Sung, WSP - Sentiment Unveiled: Artificial Intelligence Insights into Public Opinion on Transit-Oriented Development
Evelyn Sung
WSP - Transport Planner
Evelyn is an transport planner with diverse experiences across engineering, architecture, and transport planning - enabling an aptitude for thinking holistically and challenging traditional boundaries. She is committed to exploring the applications of emerging technology in sustainable public transport and is passionate about delivering better places to communities.
Sentiment Unveiled: Artificial Intelligence Insights into Public Opinion on Transit-Oriented Development
Effective community engagement is key to the delivery of transport and land use planning projects, as it reveals people's concerns and preferences. However, conducting large-scale community engagement can involve significant time, costs and logistical challenges, presenting barriers to gaining deeper insights of public sentiments. The presenter has developed an AI-based tool that can harness large text-based datasets from social media to better understand peoples’ emotions, opinions, and attitudes, and help planners focus on the things that matter to the people affected by our projects. The tool is demonstrated using Google Reviews and OpenAI's GPT language model to analyse sentiments associated with transit-oriented developments (TODs), as well as to uncover characteristics about places and transport services that influence public attitudes.
Harnessing public sentiment can help us better identify key user issues, identify deficiencies, prioritise opportunities and guide the development of improvement options, promoting social awareness and innovation in transport planning.
Sara Stace, WSP | Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance: A responsive and Inclusive approach for urban Tasmania
Sara Stace
WSP
Sara Stace is a city shaper, strategic thinker and innovator with extensive knowledge about cities, land use, and urban transport.
She is Director of Cities at WSP, providing strategic advice on urban policy related to places and precincts, active transport, master planning, and governance
Co-Author(s)
Dusty Moore | WSP
Dusty is an Urban Mobility Planner at the Department of State Growth Tasmania, and has in the consultancy, academic, NGO and government sectors in Australia and overseas.
Dusty is a planner with experience in research, strategic land use planning, systems thinking and sustainability at the local and state government level.
He has a a strong interest in sustainable development and fostering approaches that promote better and more holistic strategic planning.
Oscar Hayes | WSP
Oscar is an Associate in WSP's Cities team, with experience working across state, local government and in the private sector.
He has expertise in transport planning founded upon extensive engagement and communications experience.
Oscar has joined WSP from the City of Melbourne where he led the accelerated bike lane program, independent transport review, travel behaviour change programs, and the implementation of the Transport Strategy 2030.
Tom Gardner | WSP
Tom is a Senior Transport Engineer with experience working in active transport, transport planning and delivery of major highways and public realm improvements.
Tom has led multiple walking and cycling studies, including advancing feasibility design of multiple ‘Quietway’ cycle routes in Central London and working as an independent reviewer of Transport for London’s (TfL’s) development of a new 7km cycle superhighway route.
Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance: A responsive and Inclusive approach for urban Tasmania
The COVID-19 pandemic showcased the effectiveness of rolling out cycling infrastructure in a rapid, and tactical approach, also known as popup cycleways. However, a review of Australian experiences shows that it requires careful implementation, engagement and monitoring to ensure success. This presentation will provide an overview of a Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance for urban Tasmania, which has applications to other jurisdictions in supporting the successful implementation of rapid or tactical delivery approaches. The guidance incorporates three complementary resources; an infrastructure focussed Kit of Parts, Communications and Engagement Guidance, and a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
Maja Sig Verstergaard, Ramboll - Handbook for Planning & Establishing EV Charging Infrastructure
Maja Sig Vestergaard
Ramboll
Maja has a holistic view on every project, and her analytical approach makes her able to pinpoint what is key and create coherence with other projects. Working on global mobility projects, Maja leads Ramboll's E-mobility service line and is driving the integration of EV's into the transport mix.
Co-Author(s)
Mette Hoe | Ramboll
Mette is an e-Mobility Expert and Market Manager from Ramboll, with close to 20 years of experience in both public and private sectors. She spent 5 years as Head of Business Deployment and International E-mobility of Copenhagen Electric, the central contact point for e-mobility in the Capital Region of Denmark, where she engaged with stakeholders, found new partners for regional, national, and international projects, and promoted activities that supported the deployment of electric vehicles and other green mobility solutions. She spent 2,5 years in New Zealand as a self-employed consultant, where she engaged in the debate and uptake of e-mobility. In Ramboll, Mette coordinates the e-Mobility market, and works as Project Manager on a diverse range of projects from decarbonisation strategies to onsite design and layout of charging stations and facilities.
Santiago Ruiz | Ramboll
Santiago is a qualified Civil and Environmental Engineer and a Master of Commerce (Transport & Infrastructure Management, and Finance). He has over 7 years of experience on major transport infrastructure projects including project management and assessment, feasibility studies, business cases, and commercial & technical due diligence. Santiago has provided advisory services on transport infrastructure projects through planning, packaging and procurement, financial closure, design & construction, and operation & maintenance. He is currently pursuing e-Mobility projects in Australia and leveraging our international capabilities and experience to support clients with their transition locally.
Handbook for Planning & Establishing EV Charging Infrastructure
This presentation highlights the approach taken in Denmark for the formulation of a national handbook to support the planning and implementation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in public spaces. It covers a number of relevant topics which should be considered in order to provide practical guidance for government departments, councils and practitioners to allow for successful outcomes. As Australia embarks on its transition to a sustainable transport future and embraces electric vehicles there are a number of lessons learnt and practical considerations taken from the Danish context to support our transition.
Lulu Zeng, BDO - Monetising construction phase impact of large transport project
Lulu Zeng
BDO - Director
Lulu is an infrastructure economist with 13 years experience as a consultant. She is currently a Director at BDO. Lulu specialises in developing innovative economic techniques to inform evidenced based decision making. Her key areas of expertise cover transport, ESG and social infrastructure.
Monetising construction phase impact of large transport projects
A case study to discuss the likely quantum of the typically omitted disruption cost generated by the construction process such as noise, traffic detours and slowdowns, substitution buses, and loss of revenue to adjacent businesses.
David Bohm, BDO - Project Development: The journey to delivery
David Bohm
BDO - Director
David is the Director of BDO's Transport Planning and Advisory business in NSW. David has spent over 15 years developing a wide range of transport projects during his career, with this time split between the private sector and within NSW Government.
Project Development: The journey to delivery
Successful transport project development requires an approach that considers and addresses a wide range of multi-modal, multi-disciplinary, and multi-stakeholder needs and issues. This presentation shares insights and lessons learned from successful (and not-so-successful) project development journeys, and success factors for contemporary transport projects.
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson, Ramboll - Living Well Locally: a national approach to 20 minute neighbourhoods
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson
Ramboll
Rebecca is a urban planner and designer with over 7 years’ experience in urban, regional and strategic development. She specialises in delivering inclusive development strategies and designs, bringing together diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
Co-Author(s)
Stefanie O'Gorman | Ramboll
Stefanie is the Director of Sustainable Economics and has 21 years’ experience. She specialises in the integration of a wide range of costs and benefits within decision making. Most recently she has focused on the economics of cities and urban settlements with a view to delivering valuable and tangible social and environmental outcomes through improved design and delivery of infrastructure, the creation of investable propositions, alongside significant stakeholder, community and third sector engagement. Her work in this area concentrations on delivering economic value through the maximisation of environmental and social outcomes, and in supporting clients in making ‘better’ decisions.
James Wiley | Ramboll
James has over thirteen years of experience working on multi-disciplinary projects across Australia, Africa and the Middle East and currently leads the Smart Mobility team in Sydney. Over the years James has worked a variety of projects ranging from strategic transport planning, city and precinct masterplanning, port and coastal development planning. Currently he is focusing his efforts on sustainable transport and green mobility initiatives, from walking and cycling to e-mobility, which support communities and enhance access whilst improving liveability within precincts and cities.
Living Well Locally: a national approach to 20 minute neighbourhoods
Taking a holistic approach to developing flourishing, inclusive and liveable neighbourhoods. Lessons learnt from implementing 20-minute neighbourhoods across Scotland, UK which may support our planning approach for the 15-minute neighbourhood concept wherein local services and facilities are easily accessible by walking and cycling modes.
Shifani Sood, WSP - Rethinking the urban freight task: A roadmap for micromobility uptake in goods delivery
Shifani Sood
WSP - Associate Principal
Shifani is an Associate Principal in the Advisory arm of WSP Australia. She is an experienced transport planner and urban strategist, driven by a passion for enhancing the places we live, work and play in.
Co-Author(s)
Sara Stace | WSP
Sara is a city shaper, strategic thinker and innovator with extensive knowledge about cities, land use, and urban transport. She worked at federal, state and local government, and private sector over 24 years.
Sara also wrote and co-authored 20 publications including for United Nations and the Australian Government, and won 15 national and state awards for excellence in project delivery, program management and contribution to the public sector.
Rethinking the urban freight task: A roadmap for micromobility uptake in goods delivery
How can we rapidly accelerate the uptake of micromobility for goods delivery? We present a comprehensive range of actions that government and industry can do, based on the latest global best practice, which goes beyond strategies to real actions.
Demand for deliveries is on the rise. The resulting freight task, especially the ‘last mile’ that brings the service or product directly to customers, adds pressure to our cities and streets, and contributes to pollution and climate impact.
Micromobility offers a smarter way to move freight in busy and dense city centres, where space to move and park is at a premium. However, uptake in Australia has been slow. We provide a range of solutions to accelerate the change through pilots and investments.
Zahra Nourmohammadi , Student - Enhancing Last-Mile Delivery Planning: Understanding Drivers' Preferences with Machine Learning
Zahra Nourmohammadi
Student
I am a second-year PhD student at UNSW conducting research on the application of artificial intelligence in transportation. I was born in Iran and had been a researcher in Korea before moving to Australia for my PhD.
Co-Author(s)
Meead Saberi Kalaee
Dr Saberi is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, specializing in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to UNSW, he held an academic position at Monash University from 2014 to 2018. He earned his PhD in Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning from Northwestern University, USA, and holds a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from Portland State University, USA, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IRAN. Leading the CityX research lab under the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), Dr. Saberi focuses on comprehending cities through modeling, simulation, data analysis, and visualization. His research spans various transportation engineering domains including traffic flow, transportation network modeling, complex networks, pedestrian dynamics, simulation, and urban data analysis. Dr. Saberi is also a co-founder of footpath.ai, a UNSW spinout, which utilizes GeoAI and computer vision to automate and scale the mapping of pedestrian infrastructure.
Enhancing Last-Mile Delivery Planning: Understanding Drivers' Preferences with Machine Learning
Traditional logistic planning often neglects drivers' preferences in last-mile routing. Integrating driver preferences into route planning is a crucial research focus. Recognizing that drivers often choose routes based on personal inclinations, favoring familiar roads over the shortest distance, requires incorporating historical data from actual drivers' tours. This study proposes an innovative approach to learning drivers' routing preferences, combining Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) with a sampling technique and Machine Learning (ML)-based optimization. ALNS aids in finding optimal solutions, while the sampling and ML-powered optimization adapt and learn from historical data to align with drivers' and route planners' preferences. This not only humanizes the delivery process but also infuses it with intelligent, data-driven decision-making. Validated with real-world data, the study demonstrates that this approach yields superior solutions, more accurately reflecting drivers' and planners' preferences. These findings represent a significant step forward in machine learning-powered last-mile delivery planning.
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson, Ramboll - Reimagining Connectivity: Collaborative Practices for Integrated Community Infrastructure
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson
Ramboll
Rebecca is a urban planner and designer with over 7 years’ experience in urban, regional and strategic development. She specialises in delivering inclusive development strategies and designs, bringing together diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
Co-Author(s)
Marianne Weinreich | Ramboll
For more than 20 years Marianne Weinreich has advised cities about sustainable mobility policy and promotion and mobility management. She’s an expert in cycling policy and promotion.
The last 5 years she been Market Manager in Ramboll’s Smart Mobility division where she besides working with clients is leading the thought leadership program. As part of that she was lead author of the report “Gender and (smart) mobility” published March 2021 and “Walking and cycling data – practice, challenges, needs and gaps” from Dec 2022.
She is also co-founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark and an experienced speaker at and moderator of cycling and mobility webinars and conferences around the World.
James Wiley | Ramboll
James has over thirteen years of experience working on multi-disciplinary projects across Australia, Africa and the Middle East and currently leads the Smart Mobility team in Sydney. Over the years James has worked a variety of projects ranging from strategic transport planning, city and precinct masterplanning, port and coastal development planning. Currently he is focusing his efforts on sustainable transport and green mobility initiatives, from walking and cycling to e-mobility, which support communities and enhance access whilst improving liveability within precincts and cities.
Reimagining Connectivity: Collaborative Practices for Integrated Community Infrastructure
Transforming active travel networks and attitudes to active travel in suburbia. Lessons learnt from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Ireland which are very relevant when considering Australia’s increased focus on encouraging and integrating active transport modes into the mix for all users irrespective of age, gender, physical ability and/or socio-economic circumstance.
Alex Sabohanian, Department for Infrastructure and Transport SA - Analysing Travel Behaviour of Public Transport Commuters by AFC Data Mining
Alex Sabohanian
Department for Infrastructure and Transport SA
A highly passionate and politically savvy Planning and Infrastructure Engineering Professional with excellent communication skills, and a collaborative approach, and over nine years’ experience in leading transport, data science and infrastructure projects.
Analysing Travel Behaviour of Public Transport Commuters by AFC Data Mining
Data analysis is essential in public transport because it enables operators and managers to make informed decisions based on insights gained from data. Many public transport operators in Australia have implemented AFC systems, which use smart cards or contactless payment methods to record passenger journeys and collect fares. AFC data can provide detailed information on passenger numbers, travel patterns, and revenue, however, tap on only AFC systems, lack the tap off data for determining the destination of a trip. This presentation intends to provide an innovative and effective approach to analysing the AFC data to determine the time and spatial behaviors of passengers using data mining techniques.
Hossein Haghshenas is an Assistant Professor of Transportation Planning, Isfahan University of Technology, with an extensive experience in Public Transport studies, and data science. Dr. Haghshenas is currently the CEO of the Isfahan Metropolitan Transport Authority.
Mohamad Ghadiri is an experienced and innovative Transport planner and Data scientist with over 10 years of experience in the Transport industry.
Andrew Ross, Department of Transport and Main Roads - Making plans for walking in Queensland
Andrew Ross
Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD - Principal Planner
Andrew Ross is Principal Planner (Walking) in the Cycling and Walking Team at the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Queensland. He managed the development of the TMR walking network planning guidance and subsequent planning projects.
Co-Author(s)
Alana Plummer | Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD
Alana Plummer is a Senior Planner in the Cycling and Walking Team at the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Queensland. She is passionate about creating places for people and sustainable transport infrastructure. Skilled as a planner and scientist, Alana has over 5 years' experience in spatial analysis, providing data and user experience to inform transport advice on transport projects, and cross-disciplinary communication.
Alana has been a lead contributor to the Walking Network Plans led by TMR and manages the delivery the Walking Local Government Grants program for walking network planning across the State.
Her role at TMR involves helping make the Queensland government vision of making 'walking an easy choice for everyone every day' a reality through facilitating best-practice training, workshops and providing technical infrastructure project advice.
Making plans for walking in Queensland
In Australia there is an urgent need to reorient land use and transport planning around safe, comfortable, accessible and direct walking networks. To address this need, Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) published the state's first walking network planning guidance. State and local governments are preparing more than 80 walking network plans (WNPs) with a focus on improving connectivity for communities experiencing social disadvantage, mobility challenges or road safety concerns. Success factors include collaboration across government, stakeholder engagement and building a network of walking expertise.
James Reynolds, Monash University - Pop-up bus lanes, ‘guerrilla’ action by cyclists, and strategies for implementing plans, policies and transport improvements
James Reynolds
Monash University
James Reynolds is a Research Fellow at the Public Transport Research Group at Monash University. He has almost 20 years of experience as a traffic engineer, road safety auditor and transport planner, having worked in consulting in Melbourne, Adelaide and Toronto.
Co-Author(s)
Graham Currie | Monash University
Professor Graham Currie is chair of Public Transport at Monash University, and director of the Public Transport Research Group. He is a renowned international Public Transport research leader and policy advisor with over 30 years-experience.
Pop-up bus lanes, ‘guerrilla’ action by cyclists, and strategies for implementing plans, policies and transport improvements
Strategies, plans and policies for improving transport systems can be challenging to implement, especially if on-street parking is to be removed or motorists are negatively impacted. This presentation shares learnings from the implementation of pop-up bus lanes in Boston, the King Street Transit Pilot in Toronto, ‘guerrilla’-installed bike lane separators in Seattle, Zurich’s Citizens’ Transit Priority Initiative and the pedestrianisation of Curitiba’s city centre. Nine strategies for building legitimacy and implementing active transport facilities, transit priority, placemaking and other transport system improvements are outlined.
David Freer, Hartecs Group - Viable Public Transport in new Urban Growth Areas
David Freer
Hartecs Group - Manger Advisory
David is an Industry PhD, combining his research at Griffith University with his professional role at Hartecs
Viable Public Transport in new Urban Growth Areas
To break the cycle of creating car dependent new residential developments we need to look at alternative approaches. This research identifies that there is a better way, we need the courage and leadership to make it happen.
Andres Fielbaum, University of Sydney - On the relationship between free public transport, stop spacing, and optimal frequencies
Andres Fielbaum
University of Sydney, Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering
Andrés Fielbaum is a Lecturer at the TransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney. He is a Mathematical Engineer and Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from Universidad de Chile. His main fields of research are public transport, transport networks, and new transport technologies..
On the relationship between free public transport, stop spacing, and optimal frequencies
Debate on free public transport has intensified, especially post-pandemic, where many systems removed fares without other structural changes, drawing more walkers than car drivers. We study strategic public transport design, finding that while increased frequencies attract walkers and drivers, increased stop spacing can attract drivers but discourage walkers. A correct combination of both can be crucial to attain a more sustainable mode share. These adjustments might reduce some costs but won't likely compensate for revenue losses from free fares.
