This event has been postponed to a date (to be set) in October. Please check back.
TRANSPORTATION in our cities is on the verge of an extraordinary revolution. New ride services such as Uber are growing, while vehicle connectivity and automation technology are rapidly developing. But with rumours and speculation filling the air, city leaders and planners face a minefield of contradictory predictions and extraordinary promises for the future of transportation.
This New Mobility Workshop is designed to prepare city leaders, transportation and land use planners, entrepreneurs, future thinking citizens, and anyone who has responsibilites in transportation decision-making for significant coming changes to mobility. The focus of the workshop is on planning for both short and long-range evolutionary impacts of ride hailing, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), and vehicle automation from both general and local planning perspectives in order to prepare cities and communities for transformation.
The workshop addresses the contradictory predictions and extraordinary promises, and explores product diffusion models to propose:
This workshop is one of a series in regional centres of New Zealand and Australia. Attending a workshop in your regional centre means that you will work in a group of local peers to consider the implications and imperatives of each AV era, and enhance your understanding of the underlying issues influencing the speed of change, linked to your local context.
Half presentation and half group discussion, the workshop content and exercises will shed light on why the urban and infrastructure-planning aspects of these developments to our transportation systems are as difficult as they are important. Participants will be guided past challenges of uncertainty about future developments and technological innovations to consider actionable solutions that can begin today.
The workshop content is based on the recently released text book, The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles, (Grush-Niles, 2018,
This Christchurch workshop is hosted by
Workshops are also planned in other New Zealand and Australian cities as follows: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Nelson, Wellington, Dunedin, Queenstown, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. If you are not in Christchurch, click on
Students: There are a limited number of scholarships available at half the general admission price. If interested, please send an email to paulminett@tripconvergence.co.nz explaining your interest in the session, detailing your course of study and institution, and requesting consideration for a scholarship.
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We reserve the right to cancel or reschedule any individual workshop in the series if there are insufficient registrations or other complicating factors. Full refunds will be provided.