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Reimagining Transport - Winning Hearts & Minds Adrian Hale Bournemouth Borough Council Transport Conference
Reimagining Transport - Winning Hearts & Minds
Adrian Hale
Bournemouth Borough Council
Transport Conference
1. Reimagining Transport
(i) Place Making – Are we doing the right things?
(ii) The problem with ‘car-centred’ planning
(iii) Designing around people and place
(iv) The future is coming!
2. Winning Hearts & Minds
(i) Set the vision
(ii) Get the evidence
(iii) Do the economics!
3. Making It Happen
(i) Harmonising strategies & policies
(ii) Securing funding
1. Reimagining Transport
(i) Place Making
(Are we doing the right things?)
What type of places
are we planning
& designing?
Do we plan and design
places that we would
like to live in?
Reimagining Transport
(ii)The problem with ‘car-centred’ planning
‘Car-centred’ planning
Traffic demand software primarily
focuses upon (and tends to overestimate)motor vehicle
trips
‘Car-centred’ planning – Forecasting/Modelling/Economics
Traffic modelling primarily focuses upon meeting the
needs of predicted motor vehicle demand
(and we can insist on it!)
Assessment can be too focused on motorised vehicle
demand
The result is an unintended mindset amongst transport planners
that transport solutions need to be focused primarily around the demand from motorised vehicles,
leading to the practice of ...
‘Predict and Provide’
Resulting in poor use of land and unwelcoming urban landscapes
‘Car-centred’ planning
‘Car-centred’ planning – Impact on Journeys
Motor vehicle growth over
60 years
Bus use decline over
60 years
Cycling decline over
60 years
‘Car-centred’ planning
When you design around cars, you get more cars
The erosion of cities by
automobiles proceeds as a
kind of nibbling. Small
nibbles at first but eventually
hefty bites. A street is
widened here, another is
straightened there, a wide
avenue is converted to one
way flow and more land goes
into parking. No one step in
this process is in itself crucial
but cumulatively the effect is
enormous.
Jane Jacobs…
‘Car-centred’ planning – Poor Land Use & Poor Urban Realm
Reimagining Transport
We therefore need to think differently ......
“We can not solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”- Albert Einstein
Reimagining Transport
(iii) Designing around people and place
Walthamstow Village’s ‘Mini-Holland’ trial has seena 20% drop in motorised vehicle numbers
Designing around people and place
Designing around people and place
Segregated cycle lanes, Brighton
Poynton Shared Space
Designing around people and place
Reimagining Transport
(iv) The future is coming!
Autonomous Vehicles
The future is coming
Lansdowne, Bournemouth
The future is coming
The future is coming
... and travel demand & behaviour will be different!!
2. Winning Hearts & Minds
(i) Set the vision
(Now doesn’t this look better!)
Set the vision
... literally
Set the vision
Set the vision
Winning Hearts & Minds
(ii) Get the evidence
(Will it work?!)
Get the evidence
48% of journeys to work of less than 2km are by private motor vehicle
Nationally, 50-80% of children would like to cycle to school but only 2% do so
Get the evidence
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Use realistic demand or revised/reduced demand
Get the evidence
Winning Hearts & Minds
(iii) Do the economics!
Do the economics!
For
schemes ....
Do the economics!
... and for
Local Plans
Do the economics!
Do the economics!
Nice places attract talent .....
and become successful places
Melbourne
Stockholm Copenhagen
3. Making It Happen
(i) Harmonising strategies & policies
Making It Happen – Harmonising strategies & policies
Ensure that strategies and policies are
harmonised, coherent and consistent
and drive the wider transport vision
3. Making It Happen
(ii) Securing funding
Making It Happen – Securing funding
