Providing specialist training for transport professionals
Delivering the Results Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 May 2013, 8:30am – 5:00pm A blended learning course, with two day intensive short course, Brisbane. There is increasing pressure by governments and the community for well planned and delivered transport projects. This can result in more effective and efficient use of resources and better achievement of [...]
Project management for transport has come a long way in recent years, with development of formal project management processes by agencies, and skilling of project managers through formal training and on-the-job mentoring. Delivering a project, whether it be a policy or planning type project, an infrastructure project, or a service review or implementation, certainly requires [...]
The maxim of ‘what gets measure gets done’ is very true. A carefully selected performance measure and target that is regularly reported provides a very real incentive and results focus. The success of any transport program can be measured a number of ways, reflecting the diverse perspectives of the different stakeholders. The primary categories of [...]
Moving people has often been considered from a mode perspective – by road or rail – rather than taking a whole of transport approach, ie integrated transport. Now with increasing travel demand and resource constraints it is more critical that proper consideration is given to the factors that ensure integration success. A recent report published [...]
Todd Litman of the Canadian Victoria Transport Policy Institute, in a recent paper (December 2012) describes his view of the basic principles of transport planning. The paper describes ‘conventional’ transport planning, with a focus on motor vehicle traffic conditions and the ‘newer’ methods for multi-modal planning and evaluation. This may be the case for North [...]
The six best practice essentials for success Transport planners are facing the competing demands of delivering better mobility vs tightening budgets. How can we as transport professionals meet these challenges? The key is to employ best practice integrated transport planning. This entails using a systematic, sustained and accountable framework, that clearly addresses community (customer) needs. So what [...]
Successful urban public transport has to consider all aspects of the journey from origin to destination, from door to door. One component that has been largely neglected is access to, and egress from, rail and bus stations. Access to mass passenger transport services at bus or rail stations (including bus rapid transit and light rail) [...]
We are in fiscally challenging times with demands for increasing public transport mode share and seriously constrained budgets. It is evident that users perceptions are their reality. So what is important to public transport users? And what are the low cost ways we can address concerns and improve the quality of service provided?
The US state of Oregon started consideration of alternative sources of road funding in 2001 when it became obvious that the existing gas tax – the primary source of US transport funding – was not future proof. Modern vehicles were becoming more fuel efficient (and new vehicles required to be more so) and a growing [...]
Two major challenges facing road agencies into the next decade will be dealing with increasing traffic congestion, and securing funding for infrastructure and services – hence the growing interest in road user and congestion charging. As governments look for alternative sources of funding and give serious consideration to road user charging, then providing quality customer [...]