Integration of Transit Options
Better Transit Alliance Advocating for better public transit in Greater Victoria by Eric Doherty, in the news, July 14, 2017.
"...a community can’t build its way out of traffic congestion.."
Dr. Paul Mees makes strong argument for public participation in transportation decision making. Mees claims that “citizens have a keener understanding of the need for change than transport planners, with environmental awareness particularly strong among younger residents.” They are now more likely to choose cycling or buses than to use cars for urban travel.
"Transit must provide a real alternative to driving in order to provide significant environmental benefits, and that means stopping road expansion and re-allocating spending to fund high quality transit networks that reach right into suburban residential neighbourhoods."
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Transport of Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age by Paul Mees and Eric Doherty via rabble.ca
"When given a genuine choice, communities will not only vote for radically improved public transport, they will even use it. But the easiest change of all is the most necessary of all. Before we can provide public transport solutions for suburbia, we must stop telling ourselves that the task is impossible."
Read more; and follow the links there.
The rise of mobility as a service and Reshaping how urbanites get around by Warwick Goodall, Tiffany Dovey Fishman, Justine Bornstein, Brett Bonthron January 23, 2017
"Frictionless, automated, personalized travel on demand—that’s the dream of the future of mobility. And the extended auto ecosystem's various elements are coalescing to realize that dream sooner than expected, which means that incumbents and disruptors need to move at top speed to get on board."
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The future of mobility: What's next? Tomorrow’s mobility ecosystem—and how to succeed in it by Scott Corwin, Nick Jameson, Derek M. Pankratz, Philipp Willigmann September 14, 2016
"we have seen surprising agreement that a fundamental shift is driving a move away from personally owned, driver-driven vehicles and toward a future mobility system centered around (but not exclusively composed of) driverless vehicles and shared mobility."
"As shared and autonomous mobility proliferate, a tremendous opportunity arises for companies seeking to sell content, entertain, and generally enhance the time spent in-transit."
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And Finland is already in the early stages of such integrated management of Mass transportation options:
MaaS Finland to revolutionize the global transportation market as published 09.02.2016.
"Finland estimates that by 2020, the new transport services could give work to 20,000 people in Finland."
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LS Comment: The Mayor of Victoria seems willing to promote that in the Victoria CRD, so let's get that started within the objectives named in 2017. and, here is another article about job ops: http://ecoplanning.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Make_Most_of_Transit_Report-FinalApril212015.pdf