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Pragmatic Incremental or Courageous Leapfrog [Re]Development of a Land-use and Transport Modelling System for Perth, Australia

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Responding to land-use and transport modelling requirements, identified through a rigorous stakeholder engagement process, current land-use and transport modelling practices in Perth, Western Australia were examined and benchmarked against world-wide best practice. Three alternative model systems were proposed and evaluated. The preferred option, PLATINUM (Perth LAnd and Transport INtegrated Urban Model), is the more radical option, avoiding duplication and other resource inefficiencies, yet not discarding specialised and advanced work already undertaken. The unique contextual design challenges relate to the current modelling situation in Perth. It is concluded that designing model systems should explicitly acknowledge the current system in use and solutions should specify the pathway from the existing situation to the new model system. In addition, the two-edged sword of experience should be recognised as both a positive influence in terms of innovation awareness but carefully handled in relation to potential negative influences of path-dependent, ‘incrementality’ at the expense of embracing more radical innovations.

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Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), a collaborative partnership of the Government of Western Australia (the Department of Transport, the Western Australian Planning Commission and Main Roads WA) and the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Edith Cowan University. Additional funding was provided by Main Roads Western Australia to undertake an independent review of transport modelling in WA, on which this research was based.

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  1. School of Earth and Environment, Planning and Transport Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

    Sharon Biermann

  2. Business School, Planning and Transport Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

    Doina Olaru

  3. Business School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

    John H. E. Taplin

  4. School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia

    Michael A. P. Taylor

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    Stan Geertman

  2. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Joseph Ferreira, Jr.

  3. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Biermann, S., Olaru, D., Taplin, J.H.E., Taylor, M.A.P. (2015). Pragmatic Incremental or Courageous Leapfrog [Re]Development of a Land-use and Transport Modelling System for Perth, Australia. In: Geertman, S., Ferreira, Jr., J., Goodspeed, R., Stillwell, J. (eds) Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18368-8_26

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