Accounting for Transport Carbon Emissions
Laura Aston (Movement & Place Consulting)
Session: 2
Room: Meeting Room 6
Summary: This session addressed the gap currently existing between carbon accounting and transport models, and the current absence of a comprehensive framework. How can we truly evaluate carbon emission outcomes from transport projects? How to take into account, for example, shifts in behaviors, modal choices, land uses, that are associated with a specific project or policy? The discussion was rich, and although solutions were difficult to find to reconcile the complexity of transport modelling and the requirements of carbon accounting, this session was incredible food for thought.
Reliability vs usefulness - Unintended planning decisions that directly affect customer journey.
Ben Murphy (Murphy and Stone Analytics)
Session: 2
Room: Meeting Room 7
Summary: Customer priority #1: reliability. Impossible problem: services need to be fast, direct, and efficient; we also need to have services that are reliable. Because of conflicting constraints, often the first tool we call on is timetable padding. But the compounding effect of this over time can be catastrophic. It can also result in trying to chase the worst day rather than the usual day. There’s a lot of variability in the network that planners must manage. New tools can generate strange or unintended customer behaviour or give wrong or incomplete options to customers.
Takeaways:
Travel time data must be cleaned up to improve planning outcomes.
The optimum customer service result should be running one minute late.
Not everything in the network should be treated the same - one size fits all isn’t fit for purpose. A high-frequency service can have less reliability; a once-an-hour service cannot.
Trees First Planning! Trees as essential transport infrastructure
David Uhlmann (Aurecon)
Session: 2
Room: Lounge
Summary: Trees should be planned for up front to make pedestrians physically comfortable walking and encouraging mode shift away from cars. Trees provide shade, physical barriers between cars and people, and heat island reduction. But they need to be planned up front and not an afterthought.
Bikes, Infrastructure, Land Use Prioritisation
Brad (Aurecon)
Session: 2
Room: Meeting Room 8
Summary: The meeting discussed the challenges regarding bicycling in this city. These are cultural elements, legislation, infrastructure, and land use policy. It was concluded by discussing the possible solutions.
Playing the politician
Elenor Nightingale (Accession Consulting)
Session: 2
Room: Meeting Room 5
Summary: This presentation considered attendees acting like politicians & presenting election statements with a focus on transport. After presenting, all attendees “voted” A wide variety of action statements were presented including; introducing new modes of transport (bullet trains, underground metros), increasing accessibility of public transport & introducing of higher road usage fees to incentivise increased use in public transport.