Research Projects
THEME 1: Models of Integrated Urban Passenger Transport Systems Under Resource and Environmental Constraints:
1B. Urban Passenger Transport Systems under Resource and Environmental Constraints
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Melbourne Freeway |
Chief Investigators
Patrick Moriarty and John Stone (Paul Mees to 2008)
Project Member
Eden Sorupia
Project Description
Stage 1: Examines how the twin challenges of oil depletion and global climate change will impact on dispersed cities in both the short and long term, and the ability of alternative fuels and power systems to address these problems. Moriarty is examining the ecological sustainability potential of biomass fuels, hydrogen, hybrid vehicles including plug-in hybrids within the time frames imposed by global oil depletion and climate change. In addition, the potential of drastic energy efficiency improvements in vehicles - both private and public - is being investigated.
Stage 2: A detailed data base on Melbourne travel statistics from 1950 to 2006 is under development, with less detailed statistics for 1900-1950 Melbourne and for other Australian capital cities. The results of the 2006 Australian census are starting to appear, but no transport data on the journey to work is available yet. In later years, the work may be extended to include Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore depending on data availability.
Timeline
2006-2010
Publications for Download
| 1. | The Journey to Work in Melbourne (150kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty, Paul Mees |
| 2. | Environmental and Resource Constraints in Asia Urban Travel (841kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty |
| 3. | Travel to Work in Australian Capital Cities 1976-2006, An Analysis of Census Data (292kb pdf) | Paul Mees, Eden Sorupia and John Stone |
| 4. | Liquid fuels from woody biomass: abstract (13kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery |
| 5. | The prospects for green car mobility: abstract (15kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery |
| 6. | Australian car travel, an uncertain future (99kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery |
| 7. | Global bioenergy: problems and prospects: abstract (13kb pdf) | Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery |
Other Publications
Stage 1:
- Moriarty, P. and Honnery, D (2008) 'Mitigating greenhouse, limited time, limited options' Energy Policy (in press)
- Moriarty, P. and Honnery, D. (2007) Global bioenergy: problems and prospects Int. Journal of Global Energy Issues Vol 27, No. 2, pp.231-249.
- Moriarty, P. and Honnery, D. (2007) Intermittent renewable energy: the only future source of hydrogen? International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 32 pp. 1616-1624.
- Moriarty, P. and Honnery, D. (2007) 'Australian car travel: an uncertain future'. Prepared for 30th Australian Transport Research Forum Conference, Melbourne.
- Moriarty, P. and Honnery, D. (2007) 'The prospects for global green car mobility', Journal of Cleaner Production xx 1e10
- Honnery, D. and Moriarty, P. (2007) 'Liquid fuels from woody biomass', International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp.103–114.
Stage 2:
- Mees, P. Sorupia, E. and Stone, J. (2008) Travel to work in Australian capital cities 1976-2006, an analysis of census data (GAMUT Working Paper)
- Moriarty, P. and Mees, P. (2006) The journey to work in Melbourne, Paper for 29th ATRF Conference, Gold Coast, Qld, 27-29th Sept., 2006.