How to design in sustainable transport

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How to design in sustainable transport
Designing sustainable travel choice
Daniel BlackDesign community engagement
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Topic areas

• Exemplary exemplars?
• Cars are amazing!
• Tips tricks for the designer

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1. Exemplary exemplars?
Cycle-use 2 Car-use 64 Source Oxford
Brookes (2004)
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New developments are a side-show
Source National Statistics, 2006 (above), CABE
(right)
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2. Cars really are amazing!
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Know your limits public transport
Source Urban Design Compendium (2007)
Would you walk ½ mile to a bus stop if you could
take the car instead?
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Sometimes better than driving
buses
Rarely better than driving
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walking cycling
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3. Tips and tricks
i Make place over movement ii Re-allocate
road space iii Filter permeability iv Ensure
passive surveillance v Make sustainable routes
great vi Lower car-use ensure adequate parking
vii Share knowledge skills with
communities Viii Match density to local
resources
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3.i Place over movement?
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St Marys Redcliffe
School
Residences
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Building roads induces more traffic
Source Goodwin, P. 1996 Empirical evidence on
induced traffic
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3.ii Road space re-allocation think big
Seoul Municipal Government
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Road space re-allocation (neighbourhood)
think medium
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think small
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Traffic evaporates
Reduction in traffic
Source Cairns et al. 2002 Disappearing Traffic?
The story so far
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Guidance supports us
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Foreign examples lure us

Car
Walking, cycling public transport
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3.iii Permeability Motor routes coarse
grain
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Sustainable routes fine grain
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3.iv Ensure passive surveillance