Beyond EVs: other ways to net-zero transport

Shifani Sood

Senior Consultant | WSP

 

Shifani is an experienced transport planner with a background in urban planning, public policy and strategy. She is passionate about leveraging the opportunities presented by micromobility to achieve better outcomes for our cities and places.

In recent years, Shifani has been deeply involved in city shaping projects focusing on industry disruption and what this means for cities through her work on Future Mobility Strategy for South Australia, the On-demand Shared Mobility Roadmap for Auckland and global thought leadership whitepapers including: the Future of Delivery: Unleashing the potential of micromobility for the last mile, Future Ready Kerbside, and Going Small - the transition to urban micromobility. 

Future of delivery: Unleashing the potential of micromobility for the last mile

Demand for deliveries of almost everything from ready-to-eat meals to home improvement items is on the rise. Parcel deliveries are the largest market segment followed by grocery and food deliveries. The resulting freight task, especially the "last mile" that brings the service or product directly to customers, adds pressure to our cities and places. Relying upon cars, vans and trucks for the last mile risks clogging up our local places, adds to emissions and result in negative impacts on our health and wellbeing. 

Micromobility offers a smarter way to move freight in busy and dense city centres, where space to move and to park is increasingly at a premium. Key enablers that can help cities make the transition include: 

 Making it safer for people to move around by micromobility  

Changing the built environment to facilitate safe and easy pick-up and drop-off from kerbsides and in buildings for people making deliveries by micromobility  

Setting long-term policy direction to create an enabling environment for a transition to micromobility for last mile deliveries in city centres 

Remoding deliveries from cars, vans and trucks to micromobility for the last mile in city centres,

Testing ideas to promote last mile deliveries by micromobility and scale up what works.  

Case studies from around the world provide success stories and ideas that can be applied in cities across Australia to enable a shift towards micromobility for the last mile. 

Delivering by micromobility is not the right option in all places. Success will depend on the city's density, urban form, the operating environment, size and type of delivery, operator willingness and proximity to customers. But where these ingredients come together, the last mile freight task is ripe for disruption to create better outcomes for cities and improved efficiencies for businesses.

Chris Chinnock

Principal Transport Planner | Mott Macdonald Australia Pty Ltd

Chris is a Principal Transport Planner in Mott MacDonald's Sydney office, having  joined from Transport for London in early 2022. Chris has over 10 years experience working on projects across both private and public sectors in the UK, with extensive experience in transport planning analysis, research and insight. His areas of expertise include customer segmentation and behavioural insight, travel demand management (TDM), road user charging, and of the monitoring and evaluation of active and sustainable travel initiatives. 

Build it, and they will come?

In 2015, Boris Johnson (as the then Mayor of London) announced his Vision for Cycling in the city, an investment programme of over £900m designed to deliver a range of initiatives that would make cycling an integral part of the transport network. This investment was focused not only on creating better, safer routes into central London, but on creating better places for active travel in suburban areas, including £100m for Dutch-style 'mini-Holland' local cycle hubs. This investment has proven to be a precursor to a number of 'controversial' active travel initiatives across the UK, including the much-maligned Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). Alongside the initial investment, commitment was made to deliver a range of monitoring and evaluation activities in order to assess whether the investment was meeting its objectives. In this presentation, Chris will talk through these activities, the findings, as well as lessons learnt from developing this body of work.

John Kavalieros

CEO | Transport Mutual Credit Union

 

John Kavalieros is the Chief Executive of Transport Mutual Credit Union.   With a career in the mutual banking sector spanning 25 years, John brings a wealth of accumulated knowledge to discussions around risk, compliance and having a customer centric view of operating in a dynamic critical and regulated environment.   A passionate believer in the virtues of sustainability, John understands the importance of values based business whether it be public or private.  John leads a banking organisation that caters primarily to workers in the transport industry.   John has post grad qualifications in business and is in the final stages of an MBA through Griffith University.

Sustainable transport - More than EV's

 

The transport sector is the second highest emitter of Co2 globally.  Participants in the transport sector, whether they are large public entities, small private players or ancillary organisations are major stakeholders and have an important part to play in the evolution towards lower emissions and a healthier society.   Transport can lead the way for other high emission sectors by taking an active approach to acknowledging past impacts and moving towards a cleaner sector.   In today's presentation, John Kavalieros from Transport Mutual Credit Union, a mutual banking organisation supporting the financial needs of transport workers, will discuss his company's journey towards supporting the growth of sustainable and active transport options - beyond EV's.