One of the biggest hassle with using a bike or public transport or walking is the need to carry stuff. Shopping, a change of clothes, sporting equipment, tools and paperwork are just a few of the things I regularly cart around with me. It’s not too big a deal carting all that stuff [...]

Multi-storey parking sites are predominately difficult to drive in due to tight corners, confusing layouts and other drivers. The worst thing about them is that you can never find a park when they are busy. Instead you’ve got to drive around and around looking for a free space. Do you go up [...]

Interesting quote from Vuchic V.R. (200) `Urban Transportation Policies: United States and Peer Countries’ Chapter 4 Transportation for liveable Cities, Centre for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, New Jersey, p148
“In urban transportation the concept of free market is utopian because of three factors related to basic competing modes – highways and transit. First, [...]

I did about 2.5 weeks work in late June/early July in between university semesters. Along with a few more road safety audits – a fairly standard type of job that I’ve done a lot of over the last couple of years – I did three fatality road crash investigations.
It wasn’t the most [...]

I wrote a paper on zero fare public transport for a university subject. Read it here.

I haven’t being following the discussion on the Eddington report into Melbourne’s transport needs all that closely. It’s always a bit hard to get to the bottom of the issues in these big reports that end up splashed all over the newspapers.
The proposals that have caught my eye are the big ticket [...]

I am working through my Quantitative Methods coursework today. Got up to a section on Index Numbers, which discussed how price indexes such as the NASDAQ, CPI and Dow Jones are calculated.
It seems odd that these sorts of measures aren’t more widely used outside economics and the stock market.
Imagine if an index number was [...]

Hans Monderman sounds like an interesting person. I definately need to go and visit some of the places he has designed and influenced. Seems very similar to the Local Area Traffic Management approach (LATM) which is used here in Australia, but much more innovative.
I have been wanting to get involved in this area [...]

Seems like I just can’t stop writing about CityLink and ITS.
I drove home from work today (which is a rare event) and hit the typical congestion between the Domain tunnel and the WestGate. About a kilometre after the tunnel I passed under a Variable Message Sign (VMS), which warned me of [...]

Further to my previous post, I went to a technical seminar on the Burnely Tunnel last week. The speakers discussed the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) that are in place in the City Link tunnels. The presentations touched on the recent accident in the tunnel, but of course could not go into much detail [...]