The other missing mode
Here at TransportBlog, we often write about “missing modes“. Auckland is shamefully underprovided with alternatives to driving, and that’s the situation that led to us developing the Congestion Free Network. The CFN calls for investment in rail, bus and potentially light rail infrastructure, as well as more frequent ferry services.…
20 Comments More on Auckland Transport’s electric car sharing scheme
As Matt wrote last week, Auckland Transport are keen to set up an electric car sharing scheme.
Auckland Transport intends to seek bids from national and international operators to establish a large-scale PEV based car-sharing scheme in Auckland. The successful scheme will be privately owned and operated.…
Petrol: the long, slow decline
An interesting graph came up on the TransportBlog twitter feed a couple of weeks ago, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: Pretty self-explanatory, but what you’re seeing is that gasoline (or petrol) consumption in the US grew until the mid-2000s, and has since fallen.…
Postcard from South Africa #2 – Durban Beachfront
This post doesn’t really have anything to do with the first Postcard from South Africa post, but I should probably put a link in anyway. It has more to do with this post. Going to South Africa is all sorts of culture shock.…
Development update: March 2015
Another month, another update to the RCG Development Tracker – there are 32 new projects in there this month (bringing us to 349), and a number have been updated as well. Some of the newly added developments are: Lakewood Plaza in Manukau
Aria Apartments in Ponsonby (part of the Vinegar Lane development)
SKHY apartments in Grafton
Residence du Lac in Queenstown … with all of the above being apartment projects in the pre-sales stage.…
Ports of Auckland vehicle needs
Postscript: I adopted a fairly cautious tone when I wrote this post, as I hadn’t really had a chance to go back and check my thesis modelling and see how my results compared to NZIER’s. Now I have, and my (rather mechanical) modelling shows 155,000-190,000 vehicles imported into the country each year, based on typical assumptions around population growth and vehicle scrapping.…
Development update: February 2015
Today, we’ve launched the new RCG Development Tracker page – up and running now, so take a look. The aim is for this to be the most comprehensive source of public data on developments in New Zealand, updated every month. It covers apartments and terraces, as well as hotel, retail, office and retirement village projects.…
Energy, transport and efficiency
Last year, the National Energy Research Institute (NERI) kindly gave us a free ticket to attend the NERI Energy Conference 2014. There were plenty of relevant topics to what we discuss here on the blog, including a great presentation from Mike Underhill, the head of EECA (that’s the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, a government agency).…
Coming soon: the new and improved Development Tracker
On Monday the 9th, we’re launching our new, improved, updated Development Tracker page. You’ll notice a few changes when the new page goes live. One, it’s more user friendly, with a wider range of information, and it’s now laid out in table form.…
International air travel and emissions
I’ve just come back from a holiday in South Africa, and it occurs to me that flying there and back blows my other transport-related emissions for the year out of the water. My partner and I use around 1,000 litres of petrol a year between us, travelling 10,000 km or so.…
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