[sustran] Re: TDM in Perth, WA - 14% car-driver trip reductio n

[Perkins, Alan (TSA)]

Alan and Sustraners,

I think that there is a long way to go to know how successful these
approaches will prove to be in different parts of the world.  Small-scale
Travel Blending projects were tried in Leeds and Nottingham, but have not
been reported on, and may not have been very successful.  What we have
learned here is that people's reasons for making travel behaviour changes
may be varied.  Time of course is a big issue for many two-worker Australian
households with children.  If spending a little time planning the
household's travel pays off in more shared car trips and more trip chaining,
and the neighbours can walk the children to school three mornings a week,
the time and hassle savings may be sufficient justification.  Is time an
issue in Dubai?

I guess, petrol in Australia is not expensive by western world standards
(around US 50 cents per litre) and incomes are high, so money savings would
not be a sufficient reason for most people to reduce car travel.

In Santiago it may be that time is an issue because of congestion, and if
public transport is extensive, people may be willing to leave the car at
home for some trips - I don't know.  It seems to me that the good thing is
that the idea of travel behaviour change projects that cover all household
travel is "out of the bag" and many versions may in due course be developed
in response to local needs.

If you want to know more specifically about Travel Blending contact Liz Ampt
- l.ampt at sdgworld.net.au - at Steer Davies Gleave.  She's run travel
blending projects in Adelaide, Brisbane, Santiago, New Jersey and the UK
examples so far.

Regards,

Alan Perkins

Alan Perkins
Adviser, Sustainable Transport and Planning
Transport Policy Group
Transport SA
PO Box 1
Walkerville
South Australia
5081
ph 61 (8) 8343 2436
fax 61 (8) 8343 2939
alan.perkins at transport.sa.gov.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan P Howes [mailto:howes at emirates.net.ae]
Sent: Friday, 22 February 2002 1:11 AM
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Re: TDM in Perth, WA - 14% car-driver trip reductio n


There's some very interesting stuff being posted lately. I will try to
get my Transportation Planning colleagues in Dubai interested. Trouble
is, that they still think here that Transportation Planning = Road
Planning.

One specific wrt to Alan's Really Useful Posting below - can anyone
tell me the price of motor fuel in Santiago? Here it is just about 23
cents US per litre, and other costs of running a car are very low -
are Travel Blending or Individual marketing likely to make any headway
in this context? (While there are a large number of South Asian
labourers here on USD 135 per month or less, most people get double
that or more.)

[NB: Sems odd quoting gas prices in USD/litre - what's the
international standard? The UAE is probably about the last place in
the world to sell road fuel in Imperial (not US) gallons!]


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:52:51 +1030, "Perkins, Alan (TSA)"
<Alan.Perkins at transport.sa.gov.au> wrote to
"'sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org'" <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>:

<snip>
>
>Of particular interest to Sustraners may be the reported results of an
>application of Travel Blending in Santiago (was anyone on the SUSTRAN
>network involved in this?).  A 17% reduction in car driver trips (as a
>proportion of participating and non-participating households combined) was
>achieved, with a 23% reduction in car driver kilometres and a 17% reduction
>in time spent travelling (info. provided by the proponents of Travel
>Blending, Steer Davies Gleave).

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