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Transport for a sustainable future:
A research perspective
John Whitelegg
[email protected]
Park Diagonal Mar Barcelona
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)
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
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
Targeting work places
• 150,000 businesses in London
• Congestion Reduction Potential
Analysis
• Top 30 “High Opportunity Enterprises”
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
Research Needs
• Streets for people (Appleyard)
• Accessibility leverage
• What changes behaviour (York project)
• Speed and aggression
• Human rights
Accessibility
• Facility density/local services
• Wide roads/fast moving traffic
• Barriers and detours
• City of short distances
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
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