Mobility Management

Evaluation Methodologies for Mobility Management

Australian

  • Making the Most of Models: Using Models To Develop More Effective Transport Policies And Strategies
    Peter Furnish and Don Wignall, Autumn 2009 Vol. 12, No. 4, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
    This paper discusses how simplified transport models in evaluating transportation policies and programs. An example of a simplified model is described to illustrate the use of this type of modelling for policy and strategy development purposes.
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  • Low Carbon Transport for our Cities
    Symposium held on November 10th - 13th 2008
    Sheridan Blunt - Transport Greenhouse Footprint - presentation
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  • Premiers Council for Active Living NSW
    Case Study for Active Travel: Optus relocation
    The case study outlines the various processes that Optus undertook to create an active travel culture within their organisation.  The Optus Sustainable Transport Strategy (the Transport Strategy) is designed to increase the travel choices for employees to commute to Optus Centre Sydney (OCS) in Macquarie Park, with an emphasis on improving access by sustainable modes of transport. It is an example of integrated transport planning, and can be considered as a Workplace Travel Plan.
  • Investing in Sustainable Transport: Our Clean, Green Transport Future
    ACF, (2009) Australian Conservation Foundation and supported by the Rapid, Active and Affordable Transport Alliance (RAATA).
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    We need to invest in better public and active transport infrastructure and ensure our urban centres and suburbs are redesigned to support Transit Oriented Development – compact communities, with a concentration of jobs and services easily reached by walking and cycling, integrated with high quality public transport links.
  • Useful ICLEI Tools and Materials
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    Please Note: You must login to the CCP website to access most of these tools.
    • Active Transport Quantification Toolkit: This on-line tool enables Councils, and other users, to quantify the benefits of active transport.  It has been developed through a partnership between ICLEI Oceania and The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Visit Site .  The tool is available free to everyone.   However, to report actions on behalf of your Council, you will require an allocated login.  To obtain a log-in or for further information, please contact the Sustainable Transport Manager SustainableTransport-anz@iclei.org.
    • Gap Analysis Tool: A step-by-step tool that guides Councils through a comprehensive assessment of their baseline situation as regards sustainable transport policies, procedures, strategies and practice, and helps to identify associated gaps as they relate to their own operations and the wider community.  Can be used as a first step to developing a sustainable transport Action Plan Visit Site .
    • Self-Assessment Matrix: A shorter version of the gap analysis tool designed to assist councils conduct on-going assessments of their approach to sustainable transport planning and implementation, and identify priority areas for improvement.  Can be used in conjunction with the Action Plan Review and Re-strategise materials Visit Site .
    • Action Plan Template (Detailed): This document provides a recommended structure, suggested content and guidance notes for the development of an effective sustainable transport Action Plan.  Use in conjunction with the Gap Analysis Tool/Self-Assessment Matrix, goal setting process and Action Plan Checklist, as outlined in Taking Action Visit Site .

 

International

  • Moving Cooler
    Moving Cooler is a study commissioned by various agencies and interest groups who want to know the facts about different strategies to reduce GHGs from transportation and how much they can help us meet our GHG reduction goals.
    Moving Cooler provides needed information looking at the effectiveness and costs of almost 50 transportation strategies, individually and in various combinations. The findings of this study can help us coordinate shape effective approaches to reducing GHG emissions at all levels (nationally, regionally, and locally), while meeting broader transportation objectives as well.
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  • Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies - Smart Transportation Strategies Can Achieve Emission Reduction Targets And Provide Other Important Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits
    Todd Litman, 16 December 2009, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
    Win-Win Transportation Solutions are cost-effective, technically feasible market reforms that solve transportation problems by improving mobility options and removing market distortions that cause excessive motor vehicle travel. They provide many economic, social and environmental benefits. If implemented to the degree economically justified, Win-Win Solutions could achieve the transport component of Kyoto emission reduction targets while helping to address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate mobility for non-drivers, and supporting economic development. This paper discusses the Win-Win concept and describes various Win-Win strategies.
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  • Evaluating Transit-Oriented Development Using a Sustainability Framework: Lessons from Perth's Network City
    Professor John Renne, Autumn 2009 Vol. 12, No. 4, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
    Transit-oriented development (TOD) is compact, mixed-use development that facilitates walking, bicycling, and use of public transport through its urban design. This chapter from the book 'Planning Sustainable Communities,' presents a method to evaluate TOD sustainability based on outcomes, including travel behaviour, local economic development, natural environment, built environment, social environment and policy context. The study applies this analysis framework to five rail transit precincts in Perth, Western Australia to test the feasibility of data collection and analysis.
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  • Where We Want To Be: Household Location Preferences And Their Implications For Smart Growth
    Autumn 2009 Vol. 12, No. 4, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
    This paper investigates consumer housing preferences and their implications for future urban development patterns. Market research indicates that households increasingly prefer smart growth features such as location accessibility (indicated by shorter commutes), land use mix (indicated by nearby shops and services), and transportation diversity (indicated by good walking conditions and public transit services), and many will choose small-lots and attached homes that offer these features over large-lot sprawl homes that do not. The current stock of large-lot housing should be adequate for decades, but the supply of small-lot and attached housing will need to approximately double by 2025 to meet consumer demands.
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  • The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America
    PolicyLink and the Prevention Institute Convergence Partnership (36-page summary report) 
    These publications, written by leading academics and advocates, discuss key issues related to health, equity and transportation. They identify specific transportation policies and programs that can improve public health and quality of life, particularly for vulnerable communities. Includes an introduction by Representative Jim Oberstar, Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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  • Creating Safe and Healthy Communities
    Todd Litman, Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 21-43.
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    Integrated University Parking & Access Management Programs
    Dennis Burns and Todd Litman, Parking Management - Planning, Design and Operations, Volume 3 in the Parking 101 Series, 2009 International Parking Institute
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  • Comprehensive State of the Art Report - MAX
    Successful Travel Awareness Campaigns and Mobility Managemnet Strategies
    The Comprehensive State of the Art Report is the first public deliverable of the Max-project. It begins with a short general introduction of the project, the project structure and short descriptions of the four content Work Packages (WPs). The common understanding of Mobility Management (MM) builds the basis for the whole research project.
    • It is followed by a short description of the tasks and methods for the State of the Art. The compilation of the findings from the individual content-related WPs A D SoA Reports as well as options for coordination of research between WP A-D is provided at the end of the introduction.
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    • The MaxExplorer is an interactive decision support guide for Mobility Management projects. If you are not very familiar with Mobility Management, it might be a good idea to use the Max-Explorer to guide you through the wide range of possible Mobility Management measures. It helps you to choose appropriate solutions to your local problem.
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    • MAX has developed 7 major tools to help you in mobility management:
      • MaxExplorer to start with Mobility Management:
        It defines, describes and helps to choose the right measures for your MM projects. Visit Site
      • MaxQ for Quality in Mobility Management:
        Is is a system to organise, assure quality and systematically improve MM Visit Site
      • MaxTag to make the best Travel Awareness Campaigns:
        Campaigns are an important component of MM – MAX shows how to make them effective Visit Site
      • MaxLupo to integrate Land Use Planning and Mobility Management:
        The potential of MM is even greater when it is integrated with Land Use Planning: MAX has developed guidelines on how to do this Visit Site
      • MaxSumo to plan, monitor and evaluate:
        The MaxSumo-tool aims to standardise evaluation at the European level and should help you in planning, monitoring and evaluating your Mobility Management Projects Visit Site
      • MaxEva to build up knowledge:
        MaxEva is in many ways MaxSumo on the web. The more that MaxEva is used, the more MM results there will be to compare and use in planning new projects. Visit Site
      • MaxSem a new model for behaviour change
        MaxSem is a modelling tool that allows you to understand the behaviour change process and to segment your target group accordingly. Visit Site
  • Amazing! Bike Faster than Helicopters, Running Faster than Car in Sao Paulo
    Paula Alvarado, 22 September 2009, Argentina: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation
    Do you want more proof that encouraging car use in a city is only going to lead you to traffic hell? Take a look at Sao Paulo: the city of ridiculous car jams, where there are more privately held helicopters than anywhere else in the world.
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  • London Seeks to Reduce Congestion by Eliminating Traffic Lights
    Richard S. Chang, 2 September 2009, The New York Times - Wheels
    I wrote about naked streets a couple of years ago, when a village in Germany suddenly decided to rid itself of traffic lights and all other road accoutrements. The idea wasn’t even new back then. Towns in Holland, Denmark and Belgium have had naked streets for years.
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  • Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India
    Smith, W. (2009) Indian Ministry of Urban Development
    Provides a Transport Performance Index for evaluating urban transportation systems and prioritizing system improvements in Indian cities. It consists of the following factors: Slow Moving Vehicle (Cycling) Index (availability of cycling facilities and cycling mode share).
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  • Guidelines for the evaluation of Mobility Management programmes
    Timo Finke (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Standardised evaluation of Mobility Management
    Friso Metz(2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Follow-up and evaluation with SARA and SUMO
    Anna-Lena Söderlind (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center
    • Cycling and the Built Environment - A U.S. Perspective
      Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
      This disaggregate cross-sectional study uses primary data on the cycling behavior of 608 randomly sampled respondents in urbanized King County, Washington, and objective parcel-level GIS measures of land use and infrastructure conditions.
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    • Transportation-Efficient Land Use Mapping Index(TELUMI)
      Phase 3 of Integrating Land Use and Transportation Investment Decision-Making
      Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)
      The TELUMI is a set of maps that depicts how the region's urban form affects overall transportation system efficiency. Nine map layers represent the effects of individual land-use variables on transportation efficiency. They include density (residential and employment), mix of uses (shopping and school traffic, the presence of neighborhood centers (NC)), network connectivity (block size), parking supply (amount of parking at grade), pedestrian environment (slopes), and affordable housing.
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How to evaluate Mobility Management with the new standard for evaluation

  • MAXSUMO ECOMM - training session
    Pernilla Hyllenius & Annika Nilsson (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified?  Evaluating Mobility Management Policy Objectives Such As Targets To Reduce VMT And Increase Use Of Alternative Modes
    Litman, T. (2009) Victoria Transport Policy Institute
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    This report investigates whether transportation policies should include mobility management objectives, such as targets to reduce vehicle travel and encourage use of alternative modes. Such objectives are justified on several grounds. Mobility management objectives provide guidance to help individual short-term decisions support strategic, long-term goals. Mobility management can provide numerous benefits. Many mobility management strategies are market and planning reforms that increase transport system efficiency and equity. Mobility management objectives help shift planning practices to better prepare for future demands. Mobility management criticism tends to reflect an older, automobile-oriented transportation planning paradigm which considers a limited range of objectives, impacts and options. More comprehensive analysis tends to favor mobility management. Appropriate mobility management can reduce vehicle travel in ways that minimize costs and maximize benefits to consumers and society.

 

Sustainable Urban Transport Plans (SUTP) to enhance life quality

  • Mobility Management in harbour redevelopment
    Frank Bus, Jaap Kik, Rogier Groenewegen (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Travel plan target setting and evaluation: getting it right!
    David Knight (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián 
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  • Dealing with MM within the Reg Masterplan and the Reg Tr Plan of Ile-de France
    Christelle Merkez, Fréd Predalii, Dom. Riou (2009) European Platform on Mobility Management Conference in Donostia-San Sebastián
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  • Access for all to public transport
    ANDREW WEST TRANSPORT REPORTER, 24 August 2009, Sydney Morning Herald
    PUBLIC transport would be available to almost every resident and worker in Sydney under a radical plan to link the city's heavy rail, light rail and buses in one network.
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  • Transport plan to put metropolis back on the rails
    ANDREW WEST TRANSPORT REPORTER, 24 August 2009, Sydney Morning Herald
    A 30-year blueprint for Sydney by the urban planner Garry Glazebrook blends existing networks with new underground trains and bus transitways, writes Andrew West.
    Bicycles and parking
    Recognising that some people living on the city's fringes will still need cars for part of their journey, the Glazebrook plan includes 40 park-and-ride stations, built over heavy rail and metro stations and major bus terminals.
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  • Schemes to raise the $40b needed for improvements
    ANDREW WEST TRANSPORT REPORTER, 24 August 2009, Sydney Morning Herald
    THE 30-year Glazebrook plan is estimated to cost an extra $40 billion by 2036.
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