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AGENDA

• What am I exploring

• Why am I exploring it

• How am I exploring it

• What I expected to find, and

• Peaking into the data

WHAT AM I EXPLORING?

• The barriers to establishing Multi-Modal Transportation strategies

– Multi-Modal Transportation defined as being composed of: transit, vehicular (in combination with another mode), active transportation, park&ride, rail, air travel, horse drawn buggies, telework and delivery service1,2,3

– Move away from commuting that is solely vehicular (single passenger vehicle trips)

• Focus is on provincial, municipal, and community strategy barriers and NOT individual level barriers

Source: Lets Get Healthy, California https://letsgethealthy.ca.gov/sdoh/

WHY AM I EXPLORING IT?

• Transportation is complicated and barriers exist, it is potentially important to understand what these barriers are so we can surpass them

• It’s about choices in how we commute

Low variation in how people commute to work

New Brunswick Moncton Riverview Dieppe Fredericton Hanwell New Maryland

Total 318,285 33,725 9,535 12,410 26,900 2,290 1,940

Car, truck, van -as a driver

84% 76% 82% 84% 75% 87% 91%

Car, truck, van -as a passenger

8% 9% 11% 8% 8% 10% 7%

Public transit 2% 5% 2% 3% 4% 1% 1%Walked 5% 8% 4% 3% 9% 1% 1%Bicycle 0% 1% 0% 1% 1% 0% 1%

Other method 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population

HOW AM I EXPLORING IT?

• 12 key informant interviews

• Key informants working in or in relation to transportation

• Individual responsibility and mandates can be a barrier in my own research

WHAT I EXPECTED TO FIND

• Barriers that came up in the literature review:

– Built environment and infrastructure3,4,5, 6

– Lack of interdisciplinary work3,5,7,8

– Institutional9,10

– Standards and design guidelines10

– Policy barriers5

– Funding7,10

– Evidence and academic9,11

PEAK INTO THE DATA• Reoccurring themes:

– Funding

– Standards and design guidelines

– Lack of interdisciplinary work

– Built environment

• New themes emerging:– Car culture/community resilience to change

– Not all barriers are bad

– Lack of implementing projects (various reasons)

– Lack of understanding about commuting behaviour (not always felt as a barrier)

– Multi-Modal Transportation successful in urban centers and other strategies for rural communities

– Individual responsibility

T H E R E S E A R C H G O E S O N …

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1. City of Mississauga. (2017). Official Plans: Create a multi-modal city. Retrieved from http://www6.mississauga.ca/onlinemaps/planbldg/MOP/Chapter8-Create_a_Multi-Modal_City.pdf

2. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, [FHA] (2016). Small town and rural multimodal networks. FHWA-HEP-17-

3. Litman, T. (2017). Towards more comprehensive and multi-modal transportation evaluation. Retrieved from http://www.vtpi.org/comp_evaluation.pdf

4. Hanson, A. Y., Meyer, M. R. U., Lenardson, J. D., & Hartley, D. (2015). Built environments and active living in rural and remote areas: a review of the literature. Current Obesity Reports Journal, 4, pp 484-493. doi: 10.1007/s13679-015-0180-9

5. Active Living Research. (2016). Moving towards active transportation: How policies can encourage walking and bicycling. Retrieved from activelivingresearch.org

6. Statistics Canada. (2011). Population, urban and rural, by province and territory (New Brunswick). Retrieved from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo62e-eng.htm

7. Finn, J-G. (2008). Building stronger local governments and regions: An action plan for the future of local governance in New Brunswick. ISBN 978-1-55471-179-6

8. Horn, K. (2017). Assessing an uncertain transportation future: Projecting the impact of autonomous vehicles and shared mobility trends on future parking demand. DRAFT. Accessed via City of Fredericton.

9. Hanson, R. T., Allaire, F., & MacEachheron, C. (2015). Understanding active transportation in New Brunswick: Its role in an age-friendly built environment – Summary Report. Retrieved from http://hepac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Summary-Report-NBHIC-NBHRF-May-2015.pdf

10. Hess, P. (2014). Identifying and overcoming barriers to the implementation of active transportation policies. Retrieved from http://www.tcat.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2014/10/TAC_IdentifyingAndOvercomingBarriers.pdf

11. Public Health Agency of Canada. (2014). Mobilizing knowledge on active transportation. ISBN: 978-1-100-25139-4