Research Projects
THEME 1: Models of Integrated Urban Passenger Transport Systems Under Resource and Environmental Constraints:
1C. Leading-practice Models of Collective Urban Transport.
Chief Investigators
John Stone and Leigh Glover (Paul Mees to 2008)
Project Member
Crystal Legacy
Project Description
The work will build on the smaller project funded by VREF documenting problems of integration and successful examples (see above). The project examines the disintegration of rail transport in Melbourne, Australia, with a view to testing the effects of privatisation on financial, service and environmental outcomes. The project complements that of Mizuoka (below).
One aim is to develop a practical guide to integration of urban transport networks for Australia and New Zealand modeled on the HiTrans Best Practice Guide 'Planning the Networks' (Gustav Nielsen). Additional funding sources are being sought for publication. The project will carry out case studies providing deeper investigation of the issues. As a baseline for the study, the project will find out, for Australian cities: total GHG per mode, GHG per capita/mode, GHG per passenger/km/mode.
Best practice examples from international research will be examined to trace the institutional paths through which their urban transport systems were implemented, specifying as fully as possible the institutional history and context. Key institutional factors will be explored to reveal which are context specific and what may be transferable.
Timeline
2006-2009
Publications for Download:
| 1. | Rail infrastructure capacity constraints in Melbourne: An engineering problem or a political problem? (30kb pdf) | Paul Mees |
| 2. | The Reliability of Melbourne's trains 1993-2007 (230kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty |
| 3. | How to double the capacity of the Dandenong line, without new infrastructure (300kb pdf) | Paul Mees |
| 4. | Putting The public interest back into public transport - a report to the Victorian community (300kb pdf) | Paul Mees and Patrick Moriarty |
| 5. | Investigation of the greenhouse impacts of different transport modes in Australian cities (425kb pdf) | Damon Honnery and Patrick Moriarty |
| 6. | Success stories: greenhouse gas reductions from transport policy change (125kb pdf) | Damon Honnery and Patrick Moriarty |
| 7. | Towards strategic planning for car parking (232kb pdf) | Damon Honnery and Patrick Moriarty |
| 8. | Competition versus integration, a case study of urban rail transit (542kb pdf) | Damon Honnery and Patrick Moriarty |
| 9. | Melbourne's railway system, the capacity question (1.25MB pdf) | Paul Mees |