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The Economic Impact of Wellington’s Tunnel Project
Introduction Transportation infrastructure plays a critical role in shaping urban economies. The Wellington Tunnel project, which aims to enhance connectivity and accessibility in the region, is expected to yield economic benefits. This blogpost explores the economic concepts underpinning the potential gains from this project, focusing on agglomeration economies, productivity improvements, and the broader economic implications …
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The Equity Implications of Auckland Transport’s Road Pricing Scheme
Introduction Auckland Transport’s road pricing scheme aims to address the city’s growing congestion issues. While the scheme’s economic objectives are clear, its social implications, particularly on lower socioeconomic communities, warrant closer examination. Two weeks ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post highlighting areas where individuals with lower socioeconomic status will face higher travel costs due to …
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Evaluating the impact of Airport to Botany Rapid Transit
The Airport to Botany Rapid Transit project (A2B) will deliver a new public transport route between the airport, Manukau and Botany. It will improve accessibility in the southern and eastern areas of Auckland. It will also provide an important link in the rapid transit network, with connections to the rail network at Puhinui and Manukau …
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PT is a green replacement for driving, or is it? (a case for on-demand PT)
Abstract PT has been generally accepted as a green replacement for driving in many cities worldwide. While average GHG emissions for buses are much less than for driving, its distribution shows that some bus routes emit more GHG than cars. Exploring the spatial distribution of bus emissions is important because it can justify alternative PT, …
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Mapping AT’s cycling events
Spatial data could be sourced from unusual places. Auckland Transport shares its cycling events on Facebook, which comes with location and address information. This data can be used for all sorts of analyses. @Danial has extracted AT’s cycling events from 2019 to 2022, and I have visualised them in a web map. You can download …
Transport Accessibility in Auckland
Measuring accessibility There is a subtle difference between transit accessibility and the accessibilities provided by other transportation modes. The main difference of transit accessibility is in its schedule. While travel time to/from transport and in-vehicle time is common between car and transit, the real test of freedom in transit relies on its spontaneity. Frequency has …
Fixing the reliability issue of public transport in Auckland: A short term solution.
Introduction Bus service, especially in busy urban areas, is facing the challenge to enhance its reliability. Studies have revealed that unreliability can seriously undermine the attractiveness of bus service (Lin et al., 2008). Hence, most transit agencies have monitored service reliability as one of the key performance measures for their bus operations (Benn and Barton-Aschman, 1995). …
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Transport Accessibility and Mode Shift
Introduction Aucklanders are heavily reliant on their cars to meet their travel needs with more than 80% of daily trips being made by cars. However, the high socio-economic costs of private cars such as congestion, poor quality urban environments, pollution and carbon emissions, poor public health and high travel costs to name a few, have …
Car, transit, or bicycle who wins in a March Madness race?
I recently saw an article in NZ Herald about a race between 4 people using different transportation modes (car, bus, bicycle, and train) to travel from New Lynn into the city. Google Maps can provide an estimation of travel time for all these modes but the experiment showed the actual travel time can be different. The final …
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