Mathematics is helping us move away from reacting to congestion, towards preventing it.
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Bigger cars mean bigger costs for everyone else. It’s only fair those costs are reflected in how car rego is priced.
Australia is ready for a rational and transparent discussion about road-user charging on all vehicles, not just electric ones.
NSW could buy the private operator Transurban and then charge lower tolls over a greater number of roads.
Accra could keep its political role while some of its other functions are distributed around the country.
On-street parking is an increasingly scarce resource as we take to our cars post-lockdowns. Here’s how to make the most of it.
Until train use recovers, a new approach to rail funding is needed.
Increased use of freight trains can ease the HGV driver crisis and improve the air quality, research shows.
New research suggests gamifying neighbourhoods could encourage people to travel more actively.
China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
National road pricing systems are being proposed, but what are the options?
One more lane won’t fix Britain’s congested motorways.
Environmentalism is, for the most part, the domain of the white middle class. We must recognise the contributions migrants already make, and how their power can be further harnessed.
COVID led to commuting time savings worth over $2,000 a year for each driver and $5,000 per public transport user. But as workplaces reopen, we may need road user charges to keep traffic flowing.
Some new habits we’ve seen emerging during the pandemic could help us solve tricky problems like traffic congestion, which have challenged our cities for a long time.
Delivery companies are constantly learning from past mistakes to better serve customers, but they neglect crucial energy, mobility and health issues.
Faced with the eye-watering costs of building infrastructure, it makes sense to turn to much more cost-effective smart technology to get traffic flowing.
An analysis of trips to school has found the extra time and distance private secondary school students travel is a significant contributor to morning peak-hour congestion.
Commuters who drive to and from the CBD typically earn much more than most. Concerns about the fairness of charging drivers who use these busy roads at peak times are overblown.
Parcel and courier delivery vehicles are often blamed for traffic congestion in our cities. But they’re only a fraction of the traffic caused by tradespeople and other services.
Top contributors
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Program director, Cities, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies
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Professor and Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Fellow in Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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Associate Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Transport, University of Westminster
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Human Geography, Macquarie University
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E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland