Shark Tank
Knowles Tivendale (Movement and Place Consulting)
Session: 6
Room: 3200
Format: Q&A
Summary: Will the Shark buy it? Judges included David Levinson, William Mcdougall, Clare Easterbrook-Lamb, and Fiona Campbell.
Topics:
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) for public transport:
what type of services? On-demand?
The purpose of the trip? for anybody?
The cost of the vehicle?
The location of the service.
Free public transport
Improving transport equity
Who is benefiting from it?
Do people value public transportation when it is free?
How is the induced demand calculated when public transportation is free?
Why not support poor people with money rather than invest a huge amount of money in free public transport?
Mobility budget
The main idea: what do we do if a company give us a specified amount of money to use any transport mode we want but to cars?
How would you spend $100 on transport- excluding motor vehicle use.
Bike repairs, Opal, car sharing, E-scooter, MASS, running shoes, train fares are all options that could be included under this scheme.
The business plan
The benefit for the employee
Dead Rail Routes, Conversion, and Reuse
Tim Coen
Session: 6
Room: 3240
Format: Presentation
Summary:
3100 km dead rail in NSW.
Policy barriers to converting dead rail lines.
Turn abandoned rail links into rail trails.
Increase accessibility and lift quality to local active travels.
Astronomical Transport, what transport issues will the planetary colonies face?
Joseph Yurisich (Transport NSW)
Session: 6
Room: 3710
Format: Presentation and Imagination
Summary: Are we going to face Moon/Mars Colonization someday?
Moon
Vacuum
Temperature
Low gravity
Dust
Topography (Uneven surface)
Where will people live?
Mars
Thin atoms
Low temperature
High wind
Earth
Heat waves
How can people travel on Moon or on Mars given this difference in weather conditions mentioned above?
Answers:
Flying car/spaceship?
Underground
Train
Subway walking
Indoor cycling
Canal
Space Elevator
Multistorey Walking
Micro-Mobility
Dorm Cities across mars are connected by canals. Mars has liquid water. We can apply transport modes of the earth on these planets. Public transport is based on the workspace. People will be working in mines to build a large transport network.
Autonomous Technology
Jack Wang (Stantec)
Session: 6
Room: 3230
Format: Discussion
Summary: AV technology is ready, the focus is how well people will recognize it as a way to travel.
Equity vs Equality
Sunny Hong (Stantec) and Jasmine Sinclair (Transdev)
Session: 6
Room: 3180
Format: Discussion
Summary: Different governments are responsible for different problems. Which trade mode should the government invest in is a matter. Basically, this is a different objective function of resource allocation to a non-even distributed demand.