Sustainable Communities SA public meeting 18 April 2012 at Burnside Community Centre. Professor Peter Newman from Curtin University spoke about sustainability in communities with a focus on transport and reducing car dependence.
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Sustainable Communities SA - presentation by Professor Peter Newman
1. Sustainability: What it can mean for
people and communities?
By
Peter Newman
Professor of Sustainability
Curtin University
2. The Sustainability Story
Mid 90’s to 2000’s
Environmental
Ecological Protection and
Economics
Improvement
Economic
Development Sustainability
Community “Sense of
Health Place”
Social
Development
12. We won!
Supplementary policies on traffic demand
management, parking restrictions, congestion taxes…. can
all help, but will be reduced to marginal exercises unless
the structure of the city is addressed in terms of the
relative speed of traffic compared to sustainable transport
modes.
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14. Then won three more times…
7 mill pass/yr to 57 mill/yr in 15
years
15. 1992 - Northern Suburbs Railway
Now equal to 8 lanes of traffic….
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17. Year Route Km
1982 42km
1983 63km
1993 92km
2004 96km
2005 100km
2006 172km
Total 172km
54 kms within freeway
median
18. Opening of new Southern Railway
90% approval ratings and already paid off.
Carrying 65,000 per day cf 14,000 on buses.
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23. Next phase light rail…
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24. The next phase in Perth….
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25. Perth: 21st Century City
Focus on the 13 big development projects
in Perth and show how they can be:
• Leading demonstrations of low carbon,
renewable, green development
• Dense, mixed use centres made viable
through light rail
• Financed by a new private-public
mechanism that captures the value inherent
in green, transit oriented
development….Committee for Perth report.
36. Global oil production has not risen
for 5 years…
• Inexorable rise in oil price of 5% per year.
• Dramatic rise in 2008 revealing vulnerabilities of car
dependent cities.
• Car use beginning to decline…
37. Car use growth trends in developed cities from 1960 to 2005
using Global Cities Database.
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30
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38. Passenger-kilometres by private car and light trucks, 1990 –
2009,
index (1990 = 100)
160
150
Germany
140
Australia
130
France
120 United
Kingdom
United
110 States
Japan
100
90 Oil price shock
and start of
crisis
80
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
39. Peak Car Use - US cities...
• 7 years of decline
• $80 a barrel in
2004
• Cities coming
back in…
45. ‘Cars are so yesterday: young and rich
leave guzzlers behind’
From 2001 to 2009, the
average annual number of
vehicle-miles travelled by
young people (16 to 34
year olds) decreased from
10,300 miles to 7900
miles per capita – a drop
“From 2001 to 2009, young of 23 per cent.
people (16- to 34-year-olds)
who lived in households with
annual incomes of over
$70,000 increased their use of
public transit by 100 per cent,
biking by 122 per cent, and
walking by 37 percent.”
46. Shanghai 1990 and 2010
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49. Shanghai Metro…12 lines, 273 stations, 420km
covering 80% of metro area…
Built mostly since 2000; carries 8 million per day
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50. Global growth now in rail and first
signs of declines in car use…
• 82 Chinese cities building metros and
high speed rail between cities
• 14 Indian cities building metros
• Middle east cities building rail for first
time
52. Green economy symbol,
Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul,
buried under freeway
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53. ⑥ ー 1 Cheonggyecheon Area
after Restoration
(http://www.metro.seoul.kr/kor2000/chungaehome/en/seoul/2sub.htm/)
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55. History of innovation and energy….
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Next era of city building is REDUCED CARBON – green economy.
Renewable
Oil s
& Gas
Coal
Woo
d
Water
56. History of innovation and cities….
Transport shapes
Each era changes the city form. Cities keep the best of that era and move on.
Next era of city building ….
CAR S ELECTRIC
and
ELECT TRUCK u
Renewable
RIC PLANE p Gas
TRAIN e Vehicles &
r NMT
TRAM
STEA h
M i
TRAI g
N h
SHIP/
w
WALK
a
y
57. So what can communities do?
Communities hold all the cards….10
people focused on an issue can
transform a city.
58. The Sustainability Story
Sectoral Dimensions
Market Community
-goods & -values &
services visions
Government
-regulations &
infrastructure
59. At home?
• Get out of that car, at least ensure
only one car.
• Can save $750,000 over a lifetime by
using one less car.
71. Consistent reductions in car use of
around 15% - with 27% increase in
muscle-powered transport... Creates
culture of alternative transport.
Whole new
profession created
of TravelSmart
Officers
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Street Story
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