Future Ready Kerbside: Creating places that put people first

Camden Fitzgerald, Mary Haverland & Graham Pointer

WSP Australia

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ABSTRACT

The kerbside is an aspect of our local places that is often overlooked by city leaders but its management and allocation is crucial to achieving our vision for those places, as well as supporting successful journeys. How we manage and allocate the kerbside dictates who can access the place, when and by what method. Static kerbside management is failing many local places and making the kerbside work harder is critical to creating liveable cities.

In considering future mobility and social trends, we have looked to the ‘The Shared Mobility Principles for Liveable Cities’. These Principles have been endorsed by cities, NGOs, academic institutions and companies around the world. They set a clear direction for improving the liveability of our places through taking a holistic view of mobility.

This paper seeks to operationalise the Shared Mobility Principles through a place lens to imagine the future of kerbside by applying:

• A Movement and Place Framework to understand the balance of placemaking, local access and movement objectives both now and in 2050 with new mobility; and
• The WSP Systems Dynamics Tool to explore future new mobility scenarios and the key design decisions they require from the kerbside.

This is illustrated in two case study locations - Crown Street in Sydney, Australia and Onehunga Mall in Auckland, New Zealand. Through examining these places now, and exploring what new mobility and achieving the Shared Mobility Principles might look like into the future, we are presenting what is possible through effectively managing our kerbsides.

This technical study was developed to be of relevance to a broad audience. Of particular interest is:

• The examination of the Universal Shared Mobility Principles for Liveable Cities;
• Application of new analytical techniques and transport planning methods including Systems Dynamics and Movement and Place Framework to future mobility; and
• A call to arms for governance of placemaking.

Author(s)

Camden Fitzgerald | WSP Australia

Camden Fitzgerald is the Regional Executive for the NSW Planning and Mobility team at WSP. He is also an accomplished transport planner and is passionate about developing transport systems that help to create great places and encourage sustainable travel choices. Camden is experienced in a range of transport planning fields. He has a strong understanding and knowledge of transport planning issues within major capital cities as well as regional Australia. He has led many strategic transport planning schemes. Camden specialises in Advisory Services to a range of government and private clients. He is well-versed in the dynamics of place-based transport strategies, multi-modal integrated transport planning and masterplanning.

Mary Haverland | WSP Australia

Mary is a transport planning executive, with 25 years’ experience in successfully delivering a wide range of transport planning services in Australia, UK and internationally. With qualifications in both town planning and civil engineering, she has expertise in vision based planning approaches to future ready place making, travel demand management and strategic network planning.

Connected to both the private and public sector, Mary is cognisant of current policies, governance and future proofing strategies in the urban environment and transport industry. In addition to delivering projects, she has written policy, strategy and research papers; and presents widely at conferences and industry events throughout Australia and internationally on city shaping and future mobility themes.

Graham Pointer | WSP Australia

Graham is a geographer and policy executive who is passionate about improving how places work for people. He has over 18 years of experience working across the public and private sectors in Australia and Europe. He has a strong track record of navigating outcomes across multiple government agencies and ministerial portfolios.

Graham is passionate about driving good placemaking up and down the spatial scale, from the street corner to cities and regions. He leads on integrating transport and land use advice, new mobility initiatives and city planning. He has particular expertise in applying behavioural insights and nudge theory to the way cities, regions and places work.

Graham is proud to be recognised as a Chartered Geographer by the Royal Geographical Society and as a member of the Planning Institute of Australia. He is also on secondment part time to the Business Council of Australia advising on infrastructure and planning policy.