NTU-CEE Distinguished Seminar Series: Sustainable Urban Mobility With Public Transport Policy Trends

This presentation shows that presently, in 2023, it is evident that more than half the world population resides in cities, and growth is expected almost exclusively in cities. Accordingly, urban growth acceleration can be expected to result in a healthier, more efficient, and more productive life for city dwellers.

The believed solutions for the future rely on public transport (PT) modes of travel, regardless of whether they are rail, bus, light rail, tram, ride-hailing service, an ordinary taxi, personal-rapid transit or any other PT-based future mode, moving horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, on surface, elevated, or underground.

The core claim of the presentation justifies replacing private cars (PCs) with existing and future PT vehicles. In testing 17 major cities globally, 94% of the scenarios proved PT superior or equivalent to PCs for reducing travel time. Moreover, it shows a potential reduction in car traffic by approximately two-thirds compared with the current situation.

The presentation continues with the need for a personalized PT service. Using smartphone applications (apps), a traveller not only seeks a path from origin to but also a satisfactory path that caters to the traveller’s preferences at the requested time of travel.

About the Speaker

Avishai (Avi) Ceder is the Founder and was the Director, until 2014, of the transportation research centre (TRC) in the University of Auckland. Avi was Head of the Transportation Eng. and Geo-Information Dept. at the Technion, the Chief Scientist at the Israel Ministry of Transport 1994 - 1997, and the Israel delegate to the Transport Program of the European Community. He was a visiting Professor twice at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Universities of Hong Kong and Tokyo, and he is a member of various international symposia and workshops (e.g., ISTTT, CASPT). His book ‘Public Transit Planning and Operation’ by CRC Press, was translated to Chinese (2017) and Korean (2018).

Registration

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