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Future demand: Summary report (2014)
Report
Lyons, G. (2014). Future demand: Summary report

New Zealanders are driving nearly 30 billion kilometres each year in their cars, vans, utes and SUVs. The road network also carries 70 percent of all of our freight. As a nation we have built and continue to maintain a network of roads to allow us to... Read More about Future demand: Summary report.

Future demand: How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support mobility in the future? (2014)
Report
Lyons, G., Davidson, C., Forster, T., Sage, I., McSaveney, J., MacDonald, E., …Kole, A. (2014). Future demand: How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support mobility in the future?

New Zealand’s land transport programme has a current expenditure target for the next ten years of $38.7bn including $10bn to change the shape of the road network and improve its quality and capacity. Yet such investment plans are in the face of a cou... Read More about Future demand: How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support mobility in the future?.

Transport's digital age transition (2014)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (2015). Transport's digital age transition. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 8(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2014.751

2014 marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. We have seen some remarkable developments as part of the digital age revolution in the last quarter of a century. These have taken place concurrently with a motor age that is possibly past its prime... Read More about Transport's digital age transition.

All change for next generation transport (2014)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (2014). All change for next generation transport

We are in transition between the motor age and the digital age and heading for a very different world.

Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and need – Wave 2 (2014)
Report
Toombs, B., Clay, D., Chisholm, T., Parkhurst, G., & Lyons, G. (2014). Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and need – Wave 2

In 2011, the Government called for an independent review, to assess whether they were taking the right approach to managing, operating and enhancing the Strategic Road Network (SRN), which resulted in the Cook Report ‘A Fresh Start for the Strategic... Read More about Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and need – Wave 2.