Projects
Other ITLS research
The synergies created by combining city logistics with urban public transport, referred to as co-modality, are potentially enormous. As planning, tracking and managing passengers and freight becomes more sophisticated and transparent, the opportunities to leverage environmental and efficiency benefits from a co-modal approach are increasingly apparent. The diversion of some freight to public transport can reduce the number of trucks and vans in circulation, cutting both congestion and emissions. Led by Professor Michael Bell and partnering with Transport for NSW and the iMOVE CRC, our project, Investigating the Feasibility of Adopting Co-Modality, aims to investigate the potential for (1) moving freight within urban areas using latent capacity in public transport without disrupting passenger services, and (2) using public transport stations to manage freight activities.
Webinar: Co-modality in city logistics problems
Facilitated by Professor Michael Bell and featuring Michael Stokoe, Associate Director, Freight and Servicing at Transport for NSW and Assistant Professor Ron van Duin from TU Delft in The Netherlands.
View the webinar Q&A (pdf, 200KB)
We have partnered with the Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Development with the goal of developing a new framework for planning, design, financing, implementation and operation of BRT in different urban areas, giving clear guidelines to decision makers on when and how BRT projects can effectively enhance mobility and meet accessibility needs.
Implemented in Santiago, Chile, BRT is financed by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations working as a consortium of five institutions:
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Pretoria
- The University of Sydney
- World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.
We have partnered with Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory (TRACSLab) to improve the capabilities of transport planning techniques by developing new methods to improve the realism of regional congestion modelling, and the mathematical representation of traveller decision-making, thereby permitting an improved long-term transport plan.
Visit the TRACSLab website for more information.
We are working to deliver more accurate estimates of choice behaviour by reducing biases due to choice task complexity in surveys as well as design artefacts.
Extracting "true" preferences is challenging, not only due to possible hypothetical bias, but also due to increasingly complex choice tasks and the existence of design artefacts. This project will investigate the latter two in the context of marketing, transport, health and environmental economics and propose new methodologies to extract preferences that more closely reflect true behaviour in real markets.
We are working to find simpler and more accurate approaches to measuring the impacts of new cycling infrastructure, to be applied to a new bicycle path to be built by the City of Sydney. This will demonstrate the full transport, environmental, health, and economic impacts on the community.
We are working to provide strategies to address key transport-related barriers in order to enable people living with disability to participate in the workforce.
A state-of-the-art planning and evaluation capability, encompassing demand forecasts, cost-benefit analysis and economic impact to assess the merits of major infrastructure such as roads, airports, public transport (heavy and light rail, and bus and ferry systems), as well as precinct investments such as new housing and industry and business stock.
Integrating attribute processing strategies and the conditioning of the marginal utility of attributes by risk attitude and perceptual conditioning to improve estimates of willingness-to-pay for specific attributes and also increased predictive power.
Improving practical behavioural models to predict responses to transport policies in order to assist in better decision-making; merging methods from stated choice surveys, experimental economics, and naturalistic driving simulators in order to better investigate travel choice behaviour in realistic environments.
TRIPS (Trip Rate based Integrated Planning System) is Australia’s first national database for land use-based trip and parking generation surveys. It empowers smarter planning decisions by providing comprehensive up-to-date data, making it easier to assess the transport impact of developments.