Division of Information Technology,
Engineering and the Environment
Engineering and the Environment
Tuesday 8 July 2008
6:00 - 7:00pm
Centenary Building C4-16
City East
Campus
Transport Challenges and Adelaide's Transport Future
This lecture will consider the social, economic and environmental factors that will, within a generation, fundamentally change the nature of urban transport systems and the way we use them. Amongst these factors are demographic change and our aging population, ‘peak oil’ and the diminishing availability of liquid fossil fuels, and the imperative of climate change adaptation and the economic and technological changes that will be imposed as a consequence. These are prominent amongst a set of factors that will affect transport systems everywhere. On a parochial basis, the implications for Adelaide in particular are of great significance. Will a transport system based on private motor vehicles retain its pre-eminence? Can a public transport system based primarily on buses meet the new demands? Will rail-based transport find a new and enlarged role? What are the consequences for infrastructure planning and the provision of new services? Can we afford the new technology and systems? What will happen if we cannot? This lecture will address the issues and speculate on the answers to these questions.
Professor Taylor is the Acting Director of the Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies and the Professor of Transport Planning in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia. His expertise is in the areas of ‘Intelligent Transport Systems’, transport planning and engineering, transport and traffic modelling and analysis and engineering management.
His work experience includes time as a traffic engineer in the Country Roads Board of Victoria, as a consultant with the Road Transport Research Programme of OECD, and as a CSIRO research scientist. His main research interests lie in the development of ITS, including computer modelling of transportation systems, travel demand modelling, traffic flow theory, road safety, methods for the collection, monitoring, storage and analysis of traffic and transport data, and the general application of information technology in transportation. Taylor is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, the Chartered Institute of Transport, and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
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