Session coverage by guest blogger Ian Lo
Session Details
- Presented by Patrick Sunter (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Location: Room One
- Time: Session #5 (2:20pm - 2:55pm)
- Number of Attendees: 18
- Format: Workshop, presentation and Q&A
Patrick is a Transport & Urban Researcher, Software Engineer and Phd Candidate at The University of Melbourne. He is also affiliated with Beyond Zero Emissions.
Key session points:
- Multimodal networks - one stable, easy-to-use network for all at all times
- Map-based visualisations - isochrones - comparing mobility across different modes - green represents long travelling time, red represents short travelling time
- Advanced technology is required: desktop GIS and spatial data, high-level programming languages, algorithms such as A* and Djikstra’s algorithm
- OGC
- OpenStreetMap
- GTFS developers.google.com/transit
- Melbourne’s network needs to be improved so that it’s like the NZE ‘clean slate’ bus redesign
- Learning from other cities with similar urban forms - Toronto, Canada
- OpenTripPlanner - analyses all possibilities and informing you the best possible method of travel
- *** bus costs increase as frequency increases
- *** bus costs decrease as speed increases
- Walking is crucial - but this aspect is often neglected
- Over a large area, these might be necessary:
- Some smaller buses with a feeder role
- Some demand-responsive buses, in outer suburbs as a primary mode of transport, and as a supplement in inner suburbs
- Some levels of walking might be good for public health (and it’s better than driving!)
- Will it be difficult to get people to use multimodal transport, and will people prefer to take a single mode per trip (e.g. bus only, or train only)
- Maybe we can have bicycle racks in front of buses (like in New Zealand) so that people can bring their bikes along?
- Fiona - I prefer trains because buses are less reliable, or at least, marketed and perceived as less reliable
- Visual improvement - can bus route maps be better represented (colour coded ) like rail maps so that it’s more user friendly?
- e.g. in London, each bus stop has a map which shows the bus connections