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Sara Stace• Manager Strategic Transport unit at Waverley Council in Sydney, covering Bondi Junction

to Bondi Beach• Chair Urban Mobility Task Force for Smart Cities Council of ANZ

This is an interactive session with audience participation.

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Sara Stace ‐ ASCA conference ‐May 2018

In my 20 minutes presentation today, I’m gong to take you 20 years into the future. We’ll explore:• What smart mobility is,• Where we might be heading in the future• Where we are with today’s technology and• Most importantly, what your role is (as local or state government) to shape the future

for best outcomes.

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In 1‐2 words, what’s the first thing you think of for ‘smart mobility’?

‐ Pod car‐ Flying car‐ Hyperloop‐ Carbon frame walking device?

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Film and literature can be illustrative about where we think the future might be headed. What is the name of this film? Wall‐EWhat has happened to the humans? They have lost the ability to walk, and are reliant on seat‐pods to move

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This one is less cute. I’ll give you a clue there’s Tom Cruise. It’s an autonomous vehicle so he’s not driving, and being Tom Cruise of course he has to get out of the car and ride on the roof.

What film is this? Mobility ReportWhat’s similar to the Wall‐E film? Freeway environment, no streetscape

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This film is more recent, and urbanists love it. Can anyone name the film and the city depicted? Black Panther; Wakanda

What’s different to the other two slides we saw? Streetscape, people walking and interacting. All vehicles are public transportIn Wakanda, no one drives or owns a car, they get around on foot, local buses or the high speed train.

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This one isn’t a movie, but it is a fairly typical artists impression of a project. Can you name which city and street it is? George St, Sydney – light rail

It’s got less woven baskets than the last one, but has a similar intent. It has human life: kids playing, elderly people, trees, street art, light rail. And most importantly, no cars.

So what do all these ‘futuristic visions’ say about smart mobility? I’ve shown two broad scenarios – one where we have autonomous vehicles and very little ‘street life’ left. And one where people still walk and cycle, and use shared mobility. Whilst I don’t believe we’ll end up absolutely at one extreme or the other, I do think it helps us to think about that future.

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I’m going to offer two broad scenarios for our future personal transport in 20 years time.

Imagine 12‐year old Jaime. It’s 3pm and she’s finished school for the day. She does a retina scan at the school gate, and within a couple of minutes her personal pod turns up with her soccer gear in it ready to take her to sports training. It’s also got a snack ready. After training it takes her to her friend’s house and then home in time for dinner. That’s amazingly convenient right?

The cost of these personal pods has become cheap, thanks to mass production these have dropped to just $5000 each. So you get one for each of your grandparents, each child, and one for the dog. You can stack 4 in the garage at home, so why not?

The PROBLEM is, we now have 40 million of these in Australia (projected population growth) and whilst the humans only travel 15km/day on average, these pods are running around empty much of the time. Heading home, looking for parking, or just circling round the block a few hundred times. So they could be doing more than a billion kilometres a day on our roads. That’s hardly utopia.

At the other end of the spectrum, we have fully shared mobility. Instead of owning your own, you can call up a pod anytime. It takes you to your destination then goes to its next job. To make it even more efficient, you might be wiling to ride share with another couple of people, we currently call this public transport, but there’s some tech nerds who’ll try to convince you otherwise…

The DIFFERENCE is the ownership model. With a shared ownership AND shared rides we could reduce today’s vehicle fleet to about 10% of current size. Given that most vehicles spend >90% of their time parked, that’s

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an ENORMOUS amount of space freed up on the street and in people’s garages.

That space could be used for other purposes – trees, wider footpaths, cycleways, outdoor dining. And with these streetscape improvements, you might be tempted to walk a little more, or ride a bike, lose a bit of weight. Given that obesity and sedentary lifestyles currently cost our economy $45 billion for indirect and direct costs, that’s a huge difference to our bottom line and waist lines.


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So where does this leave us today? And how do we get to this future?

I’m throwing another question to you – which beach is this? Bronte Beach Sydney

Here’s two forms of mobility right here. Prams and an electric cargo bike. That bike takes 2 kids and an adult. It uses an electric motor and battery that lasts about 50 kilometres. It is seriously smart mobility.

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This is an “On demand” bus in Sydney, which can be booked using an app or website.Have you ever tried an on demand bus?

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There’s a whole series of disruptions happening right now. 8 months ago, we didn’t have dockless share bikes or on‐demand buses in Australia. Now we have more than 20 locations with different schemes, and more than 8 competitors on the market. The disruption is huge and there’ll be much more.Drones, electric share scooters (these are in the US now), hyperloop and more.

I have another question for you as an audience:Hands up if you’ve ever used a share bike? How about Uber? Keep your hand up if you’ve sold your car as a result of new transport options?

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We are at the point where planners, councillors, urban designers, engineers and policy makers MUST pay attention and be involved in shaping our future.

I’ll give you a few examples of where I’m doing this now: the first is with Waverley Council and the others are with the Smart Cities Council.

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First, we start with PEOPLE. Street life and pedestrians are at the core of our social, health and economic livelihoods. A study by City of Melbourne and SGS showed that a 10% reduction in pedestrian crossing times in the Hoddle Grid alone is worth $2.1 billion to the economy due to increased trading and interactions.

The federal government showed that every kilometer walked is worth $1.43 and every kilometer cycled is worth $2.12. And 75% of that benefit is health,

At Waverley Council, which covers Bondi Beach to BJ, we’ve got a transport hierarchy that puts people first, followed by bicycles, then public transport, service vehicles, shared mobility and then private motor vehicles.

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In my role as Chair of the Urban Mobility Task Force, I’m working with 30 other experts from Australia, NZ and Singapore to look at how we can better design our cities to prepare for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.

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Another initiative that the Urban Mobility Task Force is working on is the Shared Mobility Principles prepared by Robin Chase, co‐found of Zip Car. She’s set up a global initiative at www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org

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The Shared Mobility Principles are:

1. We plan our cities together

2. Prioritise people over vehicles

3. Support shared + efficient use of vehicles, lanes, curbs, land

4. Engage with stakeholders

5. Promote equity

6. Transition to zero‐emissions

7. Fair user fees across all modes

8. Public benefits via open data

9. Work toward integration + seamless connectivity

10. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.

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These are the global signatories to the principles – any organization can sign, and we encourage councils, governments and industry to do so.

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