GAMUT Research Questions
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The GAMUT agenda is to elaborate and promote a new practical vision of sustainable urban transport. In order to do this we are researching certain specific questions:
- What exactly is the future of the private car when climate change mitigation is taken as an imperative?
- What specific changes to transport systems and mobility behaviour could in combination deliver the order of reduction of greenhouse emissions necessary to stabilise the climate, within a framework of global action?
- How can integrated collective transport solutions be applied to dispersed cities, and what are the implications for the governance of transport?
- What is the nature of the institutional barriers stopping best practice transport solutions being quickly applied – and what does 'path dependence' mean for transport?
- How might new developments in infrastructure be better evaluated to demonstrate their real value for communities and the environment?
- How do Australian cities compare with East Asian cities in the way transport is delivered and governed – and how did they get where they are?
- How much freedom to move around the urban space do older children under driving age have, and what is stopping them having more freedom of movement?
- How are transport systems and infrastructure developed and funded, and how might the process of development and funding become fairer and more transparent?
- What social effects result from the market delivery of transport viewed as a public good?