Session: 1
Room: Yarra Room
Session Title: Congestion Pricing
Format: Discussion
Presenter Name: Harry Barber
What is congestion? How & where congestion should be priced?
Car parking can have congestion prices.
Congestion should be priced when vehicle load is within acceptable limits of the road capacity
Data is a critical factor for analysing congestion and the optimum level needs to be established.
Session: 2
Room: Yarra Room
Session Title: Better Buses: The Future Frequent Network
Format: Presentation
Presenter Name: Peter Parker (Melbourne on Transit)
Better Bus Network: Sustainable Cities Campaign, better buses for Melbourne's West with a particular focus on the West. We need a top-level service. Perth was looked at as a precedent, noting most other states have a much higher frequency.
Why is bus advocacy so challenging? The goal for 2030, is how can we shift the focus away from the high-income areas within Melbourne's southeast. The community is interested and political instability provides an opportunity for change.
After the recent election, there may no longer be any safe seats. https://melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2022/07/un-135-future-frequent-network.html This will not only support the suburban rail loop but will serve more people. Every ten minutes and seven days of the week.
The Principle Public transport Network: Gave birth to smart bus routes, these run every 15 minutes. However these smart services are in the East (10) only one of these services is in the inner west, in Sunshine.
The Useful Network: Every 20min service. Blog by Peter Parker. https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1eIBtYp3YqK7VDYkbcJW-XanMUHUIl2NE&ll=-37.8103655796008%2C145.02267822356933&z=9
Laura: Images and maps are helpful. But to advocate consider how people may not need to own multiple cars, these messages are important. Improving people's lives. The future frequent network connects people to jobs. Local community benefit is integral.
Route alignment has been discussed. How will this be branded?
Question: How will these services align with the existing services? Ten-minute service to align with trains and trams. Look at the network coordination framework, this has not been applied to buses but there is an opportunity to apply this theoretical understanding.
Focus on a small number of routes, done well.
Session: 3
Room: Yarra Room
Session Title: Victoria Transportation Integration Plan
Format: Presentation
Presenter Name: Catherine McNaughton
Call on the Victorian government to work with councils and communities to develop metro and Victoria regional transport and land use plans.
Create the places communities want.
Assess infrastructure proposal to demonstrate maximum community and environmental benefits.
Prioritize equity and people.
Achieve net zero greenhouse gas emission transport and land systems.
Include traditional owners’ perspectives, knowledge and country plans.
Include full community engagement. As required under the transport integration act 2010 and climate change act 2017.
Ad hoc projects have demonstrated limited community benefits, lack of integration, and limited linked benefits.
Consider the scales of challenges that arise with population growth; changing commuting and living patterns, technology, climate and biodiversity emergencies.
Session: 4
Room: Yarra Room
Session Title: How can we reduce parking with car sharing?
Format: Discussion
Presenter Name: Josh (Infrastructure Victoria)
Good data will be received if the service is simple.
Ticketing data is very difficult to use as fewer touch on and off in Victoria.
Train myki data is much better for touch on and off in Victoria compared to the other states.
Queensland trip data is complete and open to the agencies.
VISTA data is scarce and time-dependent.
Session: 5
Room: Supper Room
Session Title: How do real people travel around the city loop?
Format: Workshop
Presenter Name: Chris Loader (DoT)
Based on people's lives experience, they choose the best answer to each transfer scenario.
A workshop to understand how people recognise the station as a node and identify the gap between recommended transfer routes on Google maps or PTV and actual human preferences.
People tend to prioritise how they feel when they are at the station rather than to what extent the station is convenient to transfer. But generally, frequency of getting the line is the most important thing.
What if you cannot travel directly to your destination station? Would you transfer? Where? Why?
Session: 5
Room: Portico Room
Session Title: Cultural Landscape
Format: Presentation
Presenter Name: Heather (Geelong City Council)
Aboriginal people have settled in Moorabool and Barwon Rivers, but those lands were not preserved based on their cultural landscape.
Evidence of heritage is limited to tangible things, however, consider the intangible method of First Nations Storytelling. First Nations' cultural heritage and identity are often framed through the western planning system and the inclusion as stakeholders.
Strong People Strong Country Policy- developed and led by First Nations People. Introduces a re-framing where inclusion is explored through how the identity of the Traditional owners is dependent on the health of the Country and their environment.
This is a shift away from policies that looked at inclusion from a stakeholder perspective, that in a way forced First Nations people to engage with the western/colonial planning system. How can policies support First Nations individuals that do not live in their Country, this is particularly common as a consequence of the Stolen Generation.
Session: 5
Room: Melbourne Room
Session Title: Gender, Transport, and its Numerous Intersections
Format: Open Discussion
Presenter Name: Zoe (Merri-bek), Elise (CrowdSpot), and Adam (Merri-bek)
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Highly skewed and underrepresented numbers of women and non-binary people in cycling in Melbourne and Victoria. Removing the barriers to entry of bicycle riding
The gender gap in cycling (Elise): Absence in policy for people that do not identify as men or women. We need to shift the conversation from increasing cycling opportunities for women to increasing the opportunity for anyone facing barriers. Some barriers include: safety, and raising children. Transport data should be provided with a gender breakdown.
People ride to train stations when the alternatives are poor.
Designing cross-community routes rather than just 'journeys to work'. There is no data on these journeys because they are currently not catered for. No safe infrastructure that allows women to give things a try and have the opportunity to "fail".
Safety exists in many forms, including injury risk and the perceived safety of other people using the space.
Lighting is a concern in footpath safety. Roads have lights, but footpaths do not. However, lighting is not the only concern for gender inclusion.
Findings: Girls stopped using bicycles when moving from primary school to high school. Boys are given more freedom to travel to school independently.
It's about pushing that market, activating new infrastructure, and making sure people are aware. Consider micro-mobility as a mitigating solution for last-mile, after-dark trips.
Many people in typically female-dominated jobs will use scooters and won't cycle -
E-cargo bike trials (Zoe): - Doing persona route mapping, rich heat map of trips women are choosing. Most people who haven't cycled or used cargo bikes are returning to cycling after having children. Mapping is showing routes taken, routes being avoided, and what streets young families and women are riding on. If we do more of these trials, we can target infrastructure and show where we should be investing it.
Need quantitative and qualitative data - the stories of community members
Session: 5
Room: Regent Room
Session Title: Parking and Business Viability
Format: Discussion
Presenter Name: Patel
Traders want car parking. An intercept survey found parking concession does not impact availability.
DoT focuses on the reuse of the parking assets than replacement.
Commercial pricing of the parking may be decided by the preference of or the parking value of people.
One of third of the parking space reduction went unnoticed in a busy business area.
Parking permits also delay and increase the expenses of the business.
Dynamically allocation of parking is also important. Sharing the right message to the community or politicians would also promote a change of thinking and understanding that the cost of living increases more with more parking spaces.
