Active Transport
If you are interested in getting insights on Making plans for walking in Queensland, responsive and inclusive approach for Tactical Cycling Infrastructure in urban Tasmania, Pop-up bus lanes and guerrilla action by cyclists from Victorian perspective and Finding inclusivity in the Counts for active transport trends beyond the CBD commute in WA, do not miss the ‘Active Transport’ session under ‘Plan’ stream.
Session Outline
- Session Chair- Sarah Lowe, WSP
- Ashleigh Ballantyne, AECOM - Finding inclusivity in the Counts - uncovering insights into active transport trends beyond the CBD commute
- Andrew Ross, Department of Transport and Main Roads and Alana Plummer, Department of Transport and Main Roads - Making plans for walking in Queensland
- James Reynolds, Monash University - Pop-up bus lanes, ‘guerrilla’ action by cyclists, and strategies for implementing plans, policies and transport improvements
- Oscar Hayes, WSP and Dustin Moore, Department of State Growth, Tasmania | Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance: A responsive and Inclusive approach for urban Tasmania
Ashleigh Ballantyne, AECOM - Finding inclusivity in the Counts - uncovering insights into active transport trends beyond the CBD commute
Ashleigh Ballantyne
AECOM - Analytics Consultant
Ashleigh is a data scientist with a background in statistics, and has been working as an Analytics Consultant with AECOM’s Analytics & Simulation team for the past 2 years. Ashleigh has a keen interest in ESG projects, with a history of working with water and transport data.
Co-Author(s)
Liza Picton | Department of Transport WA
Liza is a behaviour change practitioner who currently leads the Evaluation team at Department of Transport and helps deliver strategic research, evaluation and insights to inform behaviour change and built environment programs. Liza is a storyteller, who places value on creating a narrative from data and sharing this with others.
Teresa Matassa | AECOM
Teresa is an experienced transport advisor with a strong focus on strategy and design outcomes for active mobility networks, leading a range of active transport evaluation and analysis projects, cycling model development projects, and design focused on user experience.
Finding inclusivity in the Counts - uncovering insights into active transport trends beyond the CBD commute -
Over the last decade, the Western Australian government has developed an extensive network of automatic bicycle counters. AECOM and DoT have collaborated on a holistic approach to analyse this valuable data and gain insights on bike riding surges and declines across the network, including activity of people who can often be excluded from typical active transport analysis.
While large variations in bike riding activity have been observed over recent years, there is an overall trend of growth across the network particularly for sites away from the CBD. Further insight on active transport trends is provided by DoT’s sentiment and behavioural research on people’s active transport attitudes, perceptions, and use over time.
Andrew Ross, Department of Transport and Main Roads and Alana Plummer, Department of Transport and Main Roads - Making plans for walking in Queensland - Making plans for walking in Queensland
Andrew Ross
Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD - Principal Planner
Andrew Ross is Principal Planner (Walking) in the Cycling and Walking Team at the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Queensland. He managed the development of the TMR walking network planning guidance and subsequent planning projects.
Co-Author(s)
Alana Plummer | Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD
Alana Plummer is a Senior Planner in the Cycling and Walking Team at the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Queensland. She is passionate about creating places for people and sustainable transport infrastructure. Skilled as a planner and scientist, Alana has over 5 years' experience in spatial analysis, providing data and user experience to inform transport advice on transport projects, and cross-disciplinary communication.
Alana has been a lead contributor to the Walking Network Plans led by TMR and manages the delivery the Walking Local Government Grants program for walking network planning across the State.
Her role at TMR involves helping make the Queensland government vision of making 'walking an easy choice for everyone every day' a reality through facilitating best-practice training, workshops and providing technical infrastructure project advice.
Making plans for walking in Queensland
In Australia there is an urgent need to reorient land use and transport planning around safe, comfortable, accessible and direct walking networks. To address this need, Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) published the state's first walking network planning guidance. State and local governments are preparing more than 80 walking network plans (WNPs) with a focus on improving connectivity for communities experiencing social disadvantage, mobility challenges or road safety concerns. Success factors include collaboration across government, stakeholder engagement and building a network of walking expertise.
James Reynolds, Monash University - Pop-up bus lanes, ‘guerrilla’ action by cyclists, and strategies for implementing plans, policies and transport improvements
James Reynolds
Monash University
James Reynolds is a Research Fellow at the Public Transport Research Group at Monash University. He has almost 20 years of experience as a traffic engineer, road safety auditor and transport planner, having worked in consulting in Melbourne, Adelaide and Toronto.
Co-Author(s)
Graham Currie | Monash University
Professor Graham Currie is chair of Public Transport at Monash University, and director of the Public Transport Research Group. He is a renowned international Public Transport research leader and policy advisor with over 30 years-experience.
Pop-up bus lanes, ‘guerrilla’ action by cyclists, and strategies for implementing plans, policies and transport improvements
Strategies, plans and policies for improving transport systems can be challenging to implement, especially if on-street parking is to be removed or motorists are negatively impacted. This presentation shares learnings from the implementation of pop-up bus lanes in Boston, the King Street Transit Pilot in Toronto, ‘guerrilla’-installed bike lane separators in Seattle, Zurich’s Citizens’ Transit Priority Initiative and the pedestrianisation of Curitiba’s city centre. Nine strategies for building legitimacy and implementing active transport facilities, transit priority, placemaking and other transport system improvements are outlined.
Oscar Hayes, WSP and Dustin Moore, Department of State Growth, Tasmania | Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance: A responsive and inclusive approach for urban Tasmania
Oscar Hayes
WSP
Oscar is an Associate in WSP's Cities team, with experience working across state, local government and in the private sector.
He has expertise in transport planning founded upon extensive engagement and communications experience.
Oscar has joined WSP from the City of Melbourne where he led the accelerated bike lane program, independent transport review, travel behaviour change programs, and the implementation of the Transport Strategy 2030.
Co-Author(s)
Dusty Moore | Department of State Growth Tasmania
Dusty is an Urban Mobility Planner at the Department of State Growth Tasmania, and has worked in the consultancy, academic, NGO and government sectors in Australia and overseas.
Dusty is a planner with experience in research, strategic land use planning, systems thinking and sustainability at the local and state government level.
He has a strong interest in sustainable development and fostering approaches that promote better and more holistic strategic planning.
Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance: A responsive and inclusive approach for urban Tasmania
The COVID-19 pandemic showcased the effectiveness of rolling out cycling infrastructure in a rapid, and tactical approach, also known as popup cycleways. However, a review of Australian experiences shows that it requires careful implementation, engagement and monitoring to ensure success. This presentation will provide an overview of a Tactical Cycling Infrastructure Guidance for urban Tasmania, which has applications to other jurisdictions in supporting the successful implementation of rapid or tactical delivery approaches. The guidance incorporates three complementary resources; an infrastructure focussed Kit of Parts, Communications and Engagement Guidance, and a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
