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Transport for a sustainable future: A research perspective

Explore the challenges and research needs for creating sustainable transportation systems, including car-reduced cities, climate change, fiscal-rebalancing, public health integration, and more.

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Transport for a sustainable future: A research perspective

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  1. Transport for a sustainable future: A research perspective John Whitelegg j.whitelegg@btinternet.com

  2. Park Diagonal Mar - Barcelona

  3. Possible reactions • Keep adding to supply in the hope of keeping up with demand (roads, parking, heavy rail, LRT) • SMART growth (high density, high accessibility, modal shift, reduce need to travel) • Fingers crossed (bit of both)

  4. London • In all practical senses it is impossible to fund/build/manage enough supply to cope with demand • Feedback mechanisms are powerful enough to send us off course even if we try

  5. Delivery • £30 million mobility management intervention (school travel plans, work place travel plans, national standard for travel plans) • Extension of congestion charging • Huge investment and design effort in walking and cycling • Climate change plan

  6. Targeting work places • 150,000 businesses in London • Congestion Reduction Potential Analysis • Top 30 “High Opportunity Enterprises”

  7. So what are the big issues and the research needs? • Child-friendly/older person friendly public space • Car-reduced cities • Climate Change • Fiscal re-balancing • Public health integration

  8. Research Needs • Streets for people (Appleyard) • Accessibility leverage • What changes behaviour (York project) • Speed and aggression • Human rights

  9. Accessibility • Facility density/local services • Wide roads/fast moving traffic • Barriers and detours • City of short distances

  10. Results 16 per cent decrease in car trips 5 per cent increase in car trips 10 per cent increase in walking trips 4 per cent decrease in walking trips 5 per cent increase in bus trips 4 per cent decrease in bus trips 1 per cent increase in cycle trips 1 per cent increase in cycle trips

  11. Are we missing the point? • Water and sewage in mid-19th century cities • Child labour in factories and coal mines • Slavery • London smog • Berlin wall • Mobility management in the 21st century city

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