Major flaws in Westconnex EIS Traffic report

(Ed: These comments about Westconnex Traffic Modelling are relevant to the Westconnex M4 EIS traffic chapter that is already published on the People’s EIS.Traffic modelling can be daunting but we hope that this contribution, along with other contributions on traffic, can help you prepare your own submission.)

By Anthony McCosker*

Traffic Modelling Flaws

Chapter 8 Traffic and transport and the associated appendix (Appendix G) are based on traffic modelling based on a three-stage system

Note explaining Automobile dependence, peak car use and induced traffic

Automobile Dependence

The situation where our choices and ability to move around the city are constrained by our access to a car, and where ‘use of an automobile [becomes] not so much a choice but a necessity’ (Newman & Kenworthy, 1999, p. 32).
Good sources for more information on automobile dependence’s causes and implications for cities are Newman and Kenworthy’s (1989) book Cities and automobile dependence and the website http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm100.htm.