Automated Rapid Transit – Not just another bus or tram
Graham McCabe & Alison Lee
Urbis, New South Wales
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ABSTRACT
The Automated Rapid Transit (ART) is new technology coming from China and is widely seen as a potential game changing vehicle (trackless tram) and is being pushed as a city shaping technology in lieu of tram and bus based systems. The presentation will cover off two key aspects of the ART - its viability in the Australian Context and how it can minimise the amount of road space required for movement.
Urbis has been closely working with the CRRC licensed importers (TREC Group) and undertaken a detailed technical deep dive into the vehicle and its uses. The presentation reviews all of the key technical criteria required to trial and operate a new passenger vehicle class in Australia, including the National Heavy Vehicle Law, passenger transport management, impacts on pavements and bridges, vehicle capacity, use cases, viability, costs and operational benefits. The presentation also demonstrates how the ART can reduce the amount of road space required for corridor movement and support streets as spaces through corridor assessments using guidance developed by the authors as part of the Austroads Prioritising On-Road Public Transport. Through the provision of ART, travel times for both public transport and private transport users can be improved allowing reallocation of road space to alternate uses.
Author(s)
Graham McCabe | Urbis
Graham McCabe is a transport planner and traffic engineer with over 25 years’ experience in developing and leading innovative transport planning and traffic engineering projects.
Graham has deep experience and understanding in the interrelationship between land-use, activity and transport. Graham has developed innovative designs to enable improved connectivity at a human and city scale, and specialises in cost effective, holistic transport solutions.
Graham has expertise in transport planning, public transport system design, traffic engineering and modelling, and designing for walking and cycling.
A trusted advisor to government, he has worked closely with senior executives in Australia and the Philippines. Graham has previously worked for Transport for NSW, Roads and Maritime Services and City of Sydney.
Alison Lee | Urbis
Alison Lee is a transport planner who has a specific interest in the hidden economies of cities and active transport. Alison loves quantifying the benefits of benign things such as parking spaces to make us think twice about how we use our valuable road space.
