Planning for future-focused cities using a variety of data and modelling techniques
Friday 22 July 2022 11:00am-12:30pm
Our transport networks and travel options have always influenced how we plan our cities.
This session explores ways to create sustainable cities – from analysing tram and rail development-data from the 1800s, to mesoscopic traffic models, and ‘people data’ that supports a vision-and-validate approach.
Session Outline
- Session Moderator - Ali Inayathusein, Executive Director (Modelling and Analytics) | Veitch Lister Consulting
- Mary Haverland, Senior Technical Director – Transport Planning & Advisory | Arcadis Australia Pacific - People Orientated Development – do we wait or create?
- Scott Aitken, Managing Director | Aimsun AND
- Nic Kaliszewski, Director, Transport Analytics | Department of Infrastructure and Transport, South Australia - The Tactical Adelaide Model - Bringing It All Together
- Professor David Levinson, Professor of Transport in the School of Civil Engineering | University of Sydney - Designing The Thirty-Minute City
Ali Inayathusein - Executive Director (Modelling and Analytics) | Veitch Lister Consulting
Ali Inayathusein
Executive Director (Modelling and Analytics) | Veitch Lister Consulting
Ali is Executive Director of Modelling & Analytics at VLC. He spent close to 10 years at Transport for London before coming to Australia in 2017. In his career, Ali has developed an extensive track record in innovation, especially in the application of new data, tools, and modelling techniques. With an MBA and a Masters degree in Transport from Imperial College London, Ali’s technical and strategic skills leave him well-placed to understand evolving trends and their impacts on mobility.
Mary Haverland - Senior Technical Director (Transport Planning & Advisory) | Arcadis Australia Pacific
Mary Haverland
Senior Technical Director - Transport Planning & Advisory | Arcadis Australia Pacific
Mary is a Transport Planner with over 25 years’ experience in successfully delivering a wide range of strategic planning services thoroughout Australia, and overseas, in both the public and private sector. She has specialist expertise in the development and application of Movement and Place Frameworks and associated planning approaches. Mary is passionate about creating equitable and sustainable environments; and making our roads and streets more accessible and comfortable public spaces that support great journeys is at the core of this.
People Orientated Development – do we wait or create?
In Australia, new urban growth areas often follow a pattern of “are usually supported by ‘pro-car’ policies; with developers building roads and parking areas, and new residents providing private vehicles for transport. As the roads get more congested, we introduce more public transport services and focus on Transit Orientated Development. The final stage of evolution - People Orientated Development - is when the emphasis is on the placemaking and journey experience. This activate neighbourhoods and is where we achieve social and economic uplift, not just time saved on travel. The wait for this change from car-orientated to people-oriented development to occur organically is long (and indeed often never happens). But visionary leadership shows us that an urban future beyond car dependency can be achieved. This presentation will explore how we can reshape mobility, without waiting for organic growth, by stepping beyond ‘predict and provide’ planning, recognising our roads and streets as public spaces using Movement and Place Frameworks, and the use of people data as an evidence base for decisions.
Scott Aitken - Managing Director | Aimsun
Scott Aitken
Managing Director | Aimsun
I have the privilege of leading Aimsun in Australia and New Zealand. A leader in transport modelling, technology, and advanced analytics, Aimsun is reshaping how we move across the built environment in a more sustainable, safe and productive way. Our software helps thousands of international users model tomorrow's smart mobility networks today. Aimsun's and Professional Services provide leading-edge prediction AI and simulation-based solutions.
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The Tactical Adelaide Model - Bringing It All Together
Nic Kaliszewski and Scott Aitken will present the fundamental aspects that brought together the Tactical Adelaide Model (TAM), developed by the Transport Analytics team (in partnership with Aimsun Pty Ltd) at the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) in South Australia. TAM provides a brand-new industry paradigm via a maintained and governed multi-modal transportation operational assessment model aimed at benefiting DIT through both supporting itself and industry partners.
The presentation will show the elements that brought people and concepts together to provide a transport focused decision support framework to enable the accurate and timely provision of analytical and simulation-based information, to support DIT's internal and external stakeholders in a cost-efficient manner.
TAM itself is a pure mesoscopic simulation of individual vehicles in individual lanes across the whole of Greater. Importantly, the project extends well beyond this and covers: cloud-based model development and implementation; model governance; version control; sub-area extraction; project modelling integration; modelling guidelines; seamless data flow between SAM (Strategic Adelaide Model) and TAM; and academic collaboration. Further enhancements of TAM will include dynamic simulation for: emerging and future transportation technologies and disruptors; electric vehicles and infrastructure; connected and autonomous vehicles; traffic management centre and operational insights (e.g. SCATS); and emission/air dispersion modelling.
TAM has already proven invaluable in supporting network planning decisions and will be instrumental in shaping the future of Adelaide and in doing so, take South Australia's modelling capability well beyond traditional strategic modelling practices.
Nic Kaliszewski - Director, Transport Analytics | Department of Infrastructure and Transport, South Australia
Nic Kaliszewski
Director, Transport Analytics | Department of Infrastructure and Transport, South Australia
Nic’s careers has focused around working at the junction of asset management, analytics, systems and innovation. Prior to starting with the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, he spent time working in mining, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing and transportation. This saw him spend time in a number of roles linked to operations, planning and strategy. He is currently completing a part-time PhD looking at combining flow network simulation and metaheuristic optimisation to support integrated maintenance and production planning decisions.
The Tactical Adelaide Model - Bringing It All Together
Nic Kaliszewski and Scott Aitken will present the fundamental aspects that brought together the Tactical Adelaide Model (TAM), developed by the Transport Analytics team (in partnership with Aimsun Pty Ltd) at the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) in South Australia. TAM provides a brand-new industry paradigm via a maintained and governed multi-modal transportation operational assessment model aimed at benefiting DIT through both supporting itself and industry partners.
The presentation will show the elements that brought people and concepts together to provide a transport focused decision support framework to enable the accurate and timely provision of analytical and simulation-based information, to support DIT's internal and external stakeholders in a cost-efficient manner.
TAM itself is a pure mesoscopic simulation of individual vehicles in individual lanes across the whole of Greater. Importantly, the project extends well beyond this and covers: cloud-based model development and implementation; model governance; version control; sub-area extraction; project modelling integration; modelling guidelines; seamless data flow between SAM (Strategic Adelaide Model) and TAM; and academic collaboration. Further enhancements of TAM will include dynamic simulation for: emerging and future transportation technologies and disruptors; electric vehicles and infrastructure; connected and autonomous vehicles; traffic management centre and operational insights (e.g. SCATS); and emission/air dispersion modelling.
TAM has already proven invaluable in supporting network planning decisions and will be instrumental in shaping the future of Adelaide and in doing so, take South Australia's modelling capability well beyond traditional strategic modelling practices.
Professor David Levinson - Professor of Transport in the School of Civil Engineering | University of Sydney
Professor David Levinson
Professor of Transport in the School of Civil Engineering | University of Sydney
Prof. David Levinson joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2017 as Foundation Professor in Transport Engineering. He was a Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota, from 1999 to 2016. He conducts research on Accessibility, Transport Economics, Transport Network Evolution, and Transport and Land Use Interaction. He is the Founding Editor of the Journals: Findings and the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is the author of several books including: The Transportation Experience, Planning for Place and Plexus, The 30-Minute City, A Political Economy of Access, Elements of Access, and The End of Traffic and the Future of Access. He blogs at http://transportist.org
Designing The Thirty-Minute City
The 30-minute isochrone has long defined people's use of cities, from ancient times, through the trams era, to modern times. Networks and land use co-evolve with technology subject to the constraints of available time. There are opportunities (low-hanging fruit) to use design to reduce the costs of travel and thus increase access for relatively little monetary outlay. This talk discusses both the measurement of accessibility, why it matters, and how it might affect traveler behaviour, institutional behaviour, and public policy. Looking at data from rail and tram development in Sydney from the 1800s and Australia today, implications about the effects of accessibility are described.