This module is focussed on understanding what people value in transport, and what they seek in accessibility, what makes people change, what is the basis for their decisions and what trade-offs they are prepared to make. It will include a major community survey to develop an understanding of the decision making process and case studies of behaviour in response to changes in transport and changes in city structure. It will identify community attitudes, values, expectations and responses to change in matters related to transport in cities, specifically Sydney, and to issues of creating a more sustainable city. It will identify ‘the drivers’ to change.

A Database of past studies and reports has been established.

A Community survey to identify community values, attitudes, expectations and responses to change and to understand the decision making process is almost complete.  NelsonTaylor Fox  have been contracted to complete this study.

Case Studies to fill gaps in knowledge, for example:

1. Study into the constancy of travel time per capita and travel budget per household as a basis for establishing feasibility of options (Laube & Zeibots)
2. CBD review before and after SH Tunnel to ascertain reasons for change and outcomes of change – why residential development explosion, change in travel pattern, change in mode choice, mode choice or new residents (Sydney City Council)
3. Study change in behaviour at Homebush Olympic site (ORTA)
4. Study change in behaviour with opening Airport railway and Eastern Distributor
5. Study of transport mode use in the Dutch Ring – Amsterdam, Haarlem, the Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht – which are connected by fast modern public transport (David Kilsby)
6. Study of a new urban village (mixed uses) and its transport (probably one in Victoria) (George Pund)
7. Study behaviour of specific groups – women, people with disabilities, children, youth, older people
8. Study behaviour of decision makers and their profile
9. Others identified at focus group meetings

Group Leader - Garry Glazebrook (Glazebrook & Assoc), Deputy Group Leader - Martin Nichols (RTA)