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Travel Post COVID-19 - Alternative views from leading academics | October 2020
Travel Post COVID-19 - Alternative views from leading academics | October 2020
Date: Thursday 8 October 2020
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm AEDT Sydney & Melbourne, 11.30am Brisbane, 12.00pm Adelaide, 9.30am Perth, 2.30pm New Zealand.
Type: Webinar
Tickets: Free event - in collaboration with ATRF, ITE-ANZ & TAS
COVID-19 has given us new challenges in respect of travel in general but public transport use in particular. What do we know to date? The Future SR, MR, LR is very uncertain, volatile and changing as we speak; trend lines are useless; and the ‘New Normal’ is not known. Whatever the new normal will be, when will it display stable properties going forward?
This event brings together Australias leading transport academics to present their ground breaking research on one of the most important questions in transport today; how will Covid-19 affect the future demand for transport in Australian cities. The event will include presentations from Professor David Hensher of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) at Sydney University and Professor Graham Currie of the Public Transport Research Group (PTRG) at Monash University. It will also include a debate on the wider implications of their research and responses to audience questions on the event.
Prof Hensher will present findings from the ITLS longitudinal study that commenced in March 2020 to identify the changes that are taking place during COVID-19 in travel and WFH in order to identify when it is appropriate to make relatively reliable statement on the extent to which we have now reached a time point at which we believe there is some settling down in the incidence of WFH and the resulting levels of commuting and non-commuting modal travel activity. Publications to date include:
Beck, M. and Hensher, D.A. (2020) Insights into the Impact of Covid-19 on Household Travel, Work, Activities and Shopping in Australia – the early days under restrictions, Transport Policy, 96, 76-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.07.001
Prof Currie will present results from phase 1 and 2 of a PTRG research program exploring long term impacts of Covid-19 on travel in Melbourne. It includes a review of historical evidence on the impacts of major disruptions to travel and the results of qualitative and a large quantitative survey of self reported changes in travel. A new framework for understanding long term travel impacts developed in the research is also presented. Further details on the research program can be found here.
Prof David Hensher | Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney
Professor David Hensher is Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney. David is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (FASSA), Recipient of the 2009 International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his long-standing and exceptional contribution to IATBR as well as to the wider travel behaviour community; Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation, recipient of the Smart 2013 Premier Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Management, the 2014 Institute of Transportation Engineers (Australia and New Zealand) Transport Profession Award, and the 2016 Award for Outstanding Research as part of the inaugural University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. In 2018 David was selected as one of 25 academics at the University of Sydney who have made a significant impact through engaging with industry and government (ranked one of 12 with High Impact). David is also the recipient of the 2019 John Shaw Medal which honours an industry champion who has made a lasting contribution to Australia's roads. He has published over 675 papers in leading international transport and economics journals as well as 16 books. David is Australia’s (and worldwide) most cited transport academic with over 58,000 citations of his contributions in Google scholar and a Scopus index more than twice any other transport academic. In 2017 MIT ranked David Hensher number 1 globally as a transport researcher, and number 6 on unique collaborations. David has had, since COVID-19, over 2,690,562 media cites. He is currently running a 2 year plus research project on working from home and implications for travel activity and revisions to strategic transport models. The project is partnered with iMoveCRC, TRM Qld, TfNSW and WADoT.
Professor Graham Currie FTSE | Professor of Public Transport, Director Public Transport Research Group, Monash University Australia
Graham directs the Monash University, Public Transport Research Group which in 2015 was identified as top group in Australia and in the top 3 research groups in the world in this area. Graham is Chair of the Light Rail Transit Committee at US Transportation Research Board and a member of the Research Advisory Board for Singapore LTA and the Swedish Centre for Research on Public Transport. He has won numerous research prizes including best paper; 14th World Conference on Transport Research and the William W Millar prize at the TRB conference (twice ; the only person ijn the world to ever have done this). Graham is an elected fellow of the Academy of Technology Science and Engineering. In 2020 Graham was awarded the Australian Transport Medal by the Engineers Australia, Transport Australia Society.