Title: Transport on demand: accelerating Australian cities
Abstract: The concept of ‘transport on demand’ could speed up Australia’s journey towards peak car. It involves using phone apps to book shared vehicles, privately operated cars and mini-buses. It’s also about using technology to better plan journeys that allow people to switch seamlessly between public transport, carsharing and multimodal transport options. By analysing the Sydney membership data of Australia’s largest carsharing provider GoGet, our conservative estimate is that carsharing could result in 35,000 fewer privately owned vehicles. However, our modelling also shows that, based on current trends in Australia, that we will take 20 years to reach that point. This could free up hundreds of thousands of square metres of space in Sydney and result in tens of millions of fewer kilometres travelled. We must accelerate the policy agenda towards carsharing to ensure the sharing economy has a noticeable impact on the urban landscape in the near future. By combining AECOM’s primary research with that of others – including insights drawn from interviews with universities and carshare companies – this paper explains how governments and developers can facilitate and encourage the move towards carsharing and ridesharing. The first steps are to help the public understand the benefits of carsharing and ridesharing, create shared mobility strategies, connect carsharing and ridesharing with public transport and prepare for multi-hire autonomous vehicles.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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