RE: Re: Why Light Rail is better than Bus Rapid Transit
  John.Radcliffe

CSIRO has researchers currently working on the issue of transport modelling - see https://research.csiro.au/data61/logistics-supply-chains-and-transportation/ though whether Tony Prescott will agree with their suggestion on public transport will be interesting.

John Radcliffe


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From:tramsdownunder@... [mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Geier
Sent: Friday, 15 February 2019 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Why Light Rail is better than Bus Rapid Transit

On 14/2/19 12:00 am, Robbie Smith wrote:
> I don't have much faith in Australian authorities being able to

> adequately assess future needs, let alone build infrastructure that

> will meet them. We'd rather spend $billions pouring concrete on

> half-baked projects that over-promise and under-deliver, and blame the

> Opposition when it doesn't work.


As I said in another forum recently -

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A colleague's wife who had specialized in transport modeling
(construction and testing of mathematical models of transport flows) got
a few years work out of the Olympics, but when that finished they were
all let go instead of being merged into 'transport'......

What transport modelling is done, is only done to support the case for
building more things, no one wants to know the 'big picture', especially
one that may say you don't need to build more big things, but just
optimize the flows on what you already have with a number of little changes.....

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