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Transportation, Planning, and the Economy:
From Theory to Reality (in 25 years or Less?)
Moving into the Future Workshop,May.9, 2014
Clarence WoudsmaDirector, School of Planning
University of [email protected]
Outline
…the transition
• Context • Theory• Perspectives• Moving Forward
In Theory…
TransportationPlanningEconomy
Transportation Planning Economy
Systems Institutions Governance Stakeholders
• Isolation to integration
• Where do responsibilities for long range planning lie?
• Fill out the “S”s– System users?– Service
providers?– Stakeholders
University of Waterloo, School of Planning
Theory• Where “transport” and
“planning” and “economy” come together
• 30 minutes to 30 years
Figure 1 The land use – transport feedback cycle (Source: adapted from (Wegner & Fürst, 1999)
• Highway 401 – 30 years (1938 to 1968)
• The 401 and long range multi-modal infrastructure plans?
• Highway 403 – plans as early as 1954 – sections begin the 1950s – completed 1997 (Woodstock to
Brantford 1988)
• Consider economic impacts of that corridor
Production(of Goods &
Services)
Sellers (of Goods
& Services) Distribution
Labor
ProductionProcess / Organization Effects:- Economies of scale - Economies of specialization- Economies of timing (JIT prod)
Freight DeliverySupplier Market Access Effects:- Match to specialized supplies- Reliability of deliveries- Transportation cost
Product to MarketsCustomer Access to Store/Service:Product Delivered to Customer: - Market Access- Transportation cost
CommuteLabor Market Access Effects:- Match to specialized skills- Reliability of workers - Transportation cost
Supply ChainInventory / Stocking Effects:- Safety stocks- Reliability, Connectivity- Centralization of dispatch- Transportation cost
Capital Goods
(Materials & Equipment)
Final Demand (households)
Transportation Effects on Productivity & Competitiveness (source G. Weisbrod EDR Group 2013)
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Performance & Impact Measurement
TraditionalTraveler Benefit • Travel time• Travel cost• Safety
Wider Transport Benefits• Accessibility• Connectivity• Mobility• Reliability
Wider Economic Benefits• Productivity from
market access• Supply chain
efficiency
Local Effects• Economic
Competitiveness• Business
Location
User Benefits Transport System Economic Effects
Graphic © Economic Development Research Group, 2012
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Perspectives
• Making the case for infrastructure planning and investment– Costs v. Benefits– Leadership in Ontario – PTG – PPP (ULI,2013)
• Local considerations in the era of globalization– The “local” movement (food to near-shoring)– Business including the business of infrastructure
• Each link in the network is part of a global network– “last mile”
• sdf
Least cost travel routes used to establish the broader region influenced by segment of Hwy 6
• sdf
Regional Context
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CPCS Transcom, EDR Group, et al, NCFRP 17: Multimodal Freight Transportation within the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Basin, 2012
Truck Routes & Volume
Freight Rail Routes
• How do can we reconcile the economic benefits and community costs of mulitmodal infrastructure needs moving towards a more sustainable future?
Source: Meyer, M.D., and Miller, E.J. (2001) Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision Oriented Approach, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York
Perspectives
Global
National
Regional
Local
Public
Sector
Private
Sector
Scope of Interests in Freight Movements
Source: National Highway Institute, 2009
Collaboration Potential� Public versus
Private Stakeholders Interests
Perspectives….“Economic development officials are faced with the difficult task of assessing whether investments in an infrastructure primarily oriented to delivering imports to national consumers provide enough local benefits to justify significant local costs (Chrisopherson and Belzer,2009, pg. 203) ”
The Honorable Jim Bradley, Minister of the Environment for Ontario
“the renewal of infrastructure can only be achieved through cooperation”
“we must make the responsible and courageous decisions now before it’s too late . In both a literal and a figurative sense, the foundations of our country are at stake”
From Keynote address: Feb. 5th, 1987
Source: http://www.ontario.ca/government/about-ministry-environment
Moving Forward
– “ taking the politics out of planning for infrastructure”
• High speed rail?
– “ need new network institutions – responsible for the whole network” (Fleming, 2012)
• CREATE project
– User pay – funding innovations - stability• iBanks
Moving Forward
– Potential for integrated policy approach• ‘whole of government approach' to solving complex
problems (Health in All Policies example)
• Develop the will to move from theory to reality
– Capacity for innovation and the leverage of Academic institutions
• Part of the system, part of the solution• Inter-disciplinarity, experiential, applied – part of the
core
