Managing Transport Demand 2005 National Local Roads and Transport Congress 5 July 2005

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Managing Transport Demand2005 National Local
Roads and Transport Congress5 July 2005

• Bronwyn Pollock
• Director, Community Partnerships

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Overview

• Greenhouse emissions from transport
• Approaches to reducing transport emissions
• Demand Management and Behaviour change

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Greenhouse Emissions
Estimated emissions by sector in 2003 Total 550
Mt CO2- e
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Transport emissions
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Transport emissions

• 80Mt or 15 of net national emissions
• 90 of this or 14.5 net national emissions
  is is from road transport
• 55 of this is from passenger vehicles
• 31 higher than 1990 and growing strongly
• Source National Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2003

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More than just the environment

• Economic issue
• Road congestions costs economy some 20 billion
  each year
• Cost to build new roads to meet demand
• eg US Department of Transportation has forecast a
  93 (real) increase in transport funding by 2020,
  based on current road based plans (Source
  Congress Sub-Committee Hearing)
• Health issue
• Obesity and Life Expectation
• Impact on families and work/life balance of
  commuting time
• Liveability of our Communities
• Transit Oriented Development

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Local Government responsibilities

• Roadways, cycle paths, footpaths
• Parking
• Community and town planning
• Land use and infrastructure approvals
• Land use policy

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Travel Demand Management

• Intervention to modify travel decisions so that
  more desirable transport, social, economic and
  environmental objectives can be achieved and the
  adverse impacts of travel can be reduced.
• Source Institute of Engineers Australia

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TDM can include

• TravelSmartTM
• individualised marketing
• walking, bicycling and public transport
• trip planning
• parking mechanisms
• financial incentives

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Local government actions

• Local infrastructure
• Local access guides
• Cycle maps
• Bicycle fleets
• Parking measures
• Signage
• Marketing
• Walking school buses
• Bicycle tourism
• Telecommuting
• Car pooling
• Car sharing

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How do we get people to change?
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Learning to Let Go
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Not anti-car

• One third of all trips under 1 km Half of all
  trips under 5 km
• Australian kids are less active than ever before
  the first generation with lower life expectancy
  than parents
• Congestion costing Australia 23.5 billion a
  year
• Save money, improve health, reduce greenhouse
  emissions WALK!

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Car culture
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The bottom line?

• one lane of traffic carries
• 2500 people/hour (in cars)
• 5000 people/hour (in buses)
• 7 10,000 people/hour (on
  light rail)
• 50,000 people/hour
  (on heavy rail)

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Behaviour change is not easy
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Growing consensus

• Less car driving per person
• More public transport, cycling and walking
• Better facilities for public transport, walking
  and cycling
• Growing role for medium to high density mixed use
  development
• Deliver through integrated transport and land
  development planning processes
• More roads do not deliver sustainable reductions
  in congestion