Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT)
GAMUT is a collaborative research centre in the Urban Planning Program of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning dedicated to promoting and supporting sustainable urban transport in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Based at the University of Melbourne, GAMUT works with an international network of researchers to focus attention on the need for innovative institutional design for integrated transport systems.
GAMUT is one of a global network of Centres of Excellence in Future Urban Transport funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, an independent institution.
Our global vision is of cities adapted to the environmental reality of climate change, socially fairer cities, safer and healthier cities, which will be economically prosperous. We envisage a change in the way the future of urban transport is viewed: from 'motorized personal mobility' to 'sustainable transport'.
The 20th century vision of transport was one of private cars and trucks as the main way of getting people and goods around cities, and endless supplies of cheap oil. The big problem was 'traffic congestion', to which building bigger and better roads was the solution.
'Sustainable transport' means seamless public transport networks even for dispersed urban areas, a reduced role for the private car for routine city trips, greatly improved facilities for walking and cycling, and integration of land use and transport planning. In this vision, the main issue is seen as the impact of transport on climate change, increased oil prices and eventual reduction in oil supply. The growing public demand is for better public transport and its connection with foot and bicycle paths.
We want to find ways of promoting 'sustainable transport' with fairness to the travelling public and the continued prosperity of cities.
Visit: http://www.gamutcentre.org
Directors: Associate Professor Nick Low, Bill Russell
Urban Planning Program Partners: Kevin O'Connor, Paul Mees, Carolyn Whitzman