Policy should be based on relevant data
Data to support evidence based policy development:
- Allocation of space is skewed toward private cars
- Bicycle lane capacity is higher than a vehicle lane in peak hour
- Business case for investing in safe & active transport
- Council Plan supports active transport
- Council policies support active transport
- Crashes that occur in Yarra and their cost to taxpayers
- Modal filters in Yarra
- Narrow footpaths in Yarra
- Population growth, congestion and the cost of congestion
- Price of off-street parking in Yarra
- Shared zones in Yarra
- Sloping footpaths in Yarra
- Yarra’s parking subsidy
In this video, Mikael Colville-Andersen talks about the value of data and how it can help guide the design of infrastructure: