What is the cost of congestion?
Putting a number of the cost of congestion in Auckland has become something of a perennial sport, with the mayor and business/infrastructure lobbies recently raising inflating it to as high as $3 billion. Those lobby groups wanted to back up their congestion cost claims and yesterday released a report by NZIER that throws a whole set of new numbers into the mix.…
46 Comments Next steps for Auckland’s cycling revolution
Yesterday in their closed session of their board meeting, the Auckland Transport board approved the Cycling Programme Business Case (PBC). The PBC is a fantastic, evidence based assessment of where cycling investment should be directed between 2018 and 2028 to build on upon the great projects currently being built or are part of other projects such as AMETI. …
Slowing drivers in Houten
A few weeks back I was fortunate to be a guest on a university study tour of the Netherlands with Peter Koonce and Peter Furth. I posted a video on Dutch Systematic Safety by Peter Furth a few months back. Professor Furth has been leading study tours of the Netherlands for American transport engineering students for over a dozen years.…
The escalating costs of building roads
The Auckland Council Chief Economist’s most recent economic commentary highlighted a vital challenge for the city: the rising cost of adding road capacity (and the dubious returns from adding capacity).
International studies have shown that expanding the roading network, either by building new roads and/or widening existing roads, typically does not keep up with the increase in the number of private vehicles because of induced demand.…
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