City planning needs up-to-date data on where people work, how they get to work and how far they travel. Normally the census provides that, but this time round our biggest cities were in lockdown.
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It has happened with software, computing and entertainment, but we’re still waiting for the platform needed for mobility as a service to reach its full potential.
Car use and cycling have soared to above pre-pandemic levels in our biggest cities (Melbourne is an obvious exception). Walking is not far behind, but public transport is being shunned.
A whole range of social and technological changes could revolutionise how we travel in the coming decades.
We have learnt to be wary of big data, but it can also be your friend: one platform combines and analyses data about housing, jobs and transport to reveal very useful information about living in Perth.
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Lecturer in Roads and Transport Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Research Fellow at Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow at Planning and Transport Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Transport Strategy, Loughborough University
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor and Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Spatial Science, RMIT University