悉尼与中国城市公共交通绩效的比较研究

为完善悉尼市城市公共交通优先发展政策体系，实现悉尼市“可持续城市交通”愿景，借鉴中国“公交都市”示范项目的指导方针和指标体系，建立了一个基于公共交通绩效水平的评估指标体系，利用中国“公交都市”示范项目数据和悉尼市公共交通运营开放数据，分别计算了各城市的公共交通绩效水平。将悉尼市与中国“公交都市”示范项目试点城市的公共交通发展水平进行了比较研究。结果表明，悉尼市现有交通运输模式为主要依赖小汽车方式出行，虽然悉尼市在促进交通方式转变和新技术应用方面取得了一些进展，但其整体的公共交通服务水平远落后于中国“公交都市”示范项目试点城市。通过借鉴中国城市在“公交都市”示范项目实践中的经验，结合悉尼城市交通发展战略与规划，明确了悉尼市出台“从依赖小汽车出行转变为公共交通优先出行”导向政策的必要性，并提出了多项促进城市公共交通优先发展的政策建议，用以支持悉尼市实现“世界上最宜居城市之一”的发展目标。     

Particulate matter concentrations and heavy metal contamination levels in the railway transport system of Sydney,Australia

Sampling campaign was conducted over six weeks to determine particulate matter (PM) concentrations from Sydney Trains airport line (T2) at both underground and ground levels using DustTrak. Dust samples were collected and analysed for 12 metals (Fe, Ca, Mn, Cr, Zn, Cu, Pb, Al, Co, Ni, Ba and Na) by atomic emission spectroscopy. Average underground PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 concentrations from inside the trains were 2.8 and 2.5 times greater than at ground level. Similarly, PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 concentrations on underground platforms were 2.7 and 2.5 times greater than ground level platforms. Average underground PM concentrations exceeded the national air quality standards for both PM₁₀ (50 µg/m³) and PM_2.5 (25 µg/m³). Correlation analysis showed a strong to moderate association between PM concentrations at ground level and background PM concentrations (r² from 0.952 to 0.500). The findings suggested that underground PM concentrations were less influenced by the ambient background than at ground level. The metal concentrations decreased in the order of Fe, Cr, Ca, Al, Na, Ba, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co and Pb. The pollution index (PI) and enrichment factor (EF) values were calculated to identify the levels and sources of contamination in the underground railway microenvironments. PM was remarkably rich in Fe with a mean concentration of 73.51 mg/g and EF of 61.31, followed by Ni and Cr. These results noticeably indicated a high level of metal contamination in the underground environments, with the principal contribution from track abrasion and wear processes.     

Driving to save time or saving time to drive? The enduring appeal of the private car

Use of the private car is often viewed as highly problematic. It is regularly associated with global physical, social and ecological harms such as climate change and the high incidence of lifestyle diseases, including heart disease. Attempts to address these problems generally include provision for day-to-day physical mobility based on alternatives to the private car. Labelled alternative transport, these modes include public transport, walking and cycling. Yet the private car continues as the preferred way to travel in many cities. A deeper understanding of this preference can reveal under explored sites of resistance to alternative transport modes.This paper contributes to these understandings by examining the role the car as a time saving device plays in sustaining automobility. Its central proposition is that individual decisions to drive are not necessarily motivated by the desire to save time. The paper draws on empirical evidence on the journey to work in Australia’s largest city, Sydney. Using a systematic process of trip substitution analysis, a group of people were identified who could use alternative transport to get to work in the same amount of time it currently takes them to drive. These people then participated in a series of in-depth interviews where deeper attachments and motivations for private car use were explored.This approach has enabled development of the multi-layered understanding that informs the central proposition that individual decisions to drive are not necessarily motivated by the desire to save time. Instead, automobility is sustained by appeals to flexibility and autonomy, as well as the interminable pull of the sensory experience provided by the cocoon of the car. This way of thinking about resistance to alternative transport exposes a series of inconsistencies between the expectations of those planning for, and those anticipated to one day use, alternative transport.     

2000年悉尼奥运会的战略交通规划、交通基础设施的需求分析和交通服务

本文给出了一个简要的交通战略规划、总体规划和操作规划的描述。战略规划必须发生在政策容许范围内。就城市交通而言，交通的可持速发展非常重要，本文给出了来自悉尼的一些例子。通过2000年悉尼奥林匹克运动会的案例研究解释了交通的需求分析。本文还为北京奥林匹克运动会的交通战略规划进程提出了建议。     

奥运会与城市轨道交通

以往的奥组委的经验表明,交通问题是奥运会成功的关键.奥运会期间,每天都有数十万的运动员、记者、观众和奥运家庭成员来往穿梭.因此对奥运举办城市来说,是全面检验其交通状况的一次巨大挑战.从历届奥运主办城市的经验看,大力发展运能大、速度快、没有噪声污染的城市轨道交通系统,是解决城市交通问题的最重要途径.列举了亚特兰大、悉尼、雅典等城市发展轨道交通迎接奥运会的经验及其给北京的启示.政府应将举办奥运会与城市规划一起综合考虑.基础设施不是只为奥运会兴建的,还要考虑奥运以后如何运作.     

A choice model of airline passengers’ spending behaviour in the airport terminal

This study examines the influence of passengers’ travel-related factors, their intention to shop and the impact of socio-economic factors on their consumption behaviours while at the airport terminal. Three categories of consumption model – shopping, dining and airport entertainment – are developed to analyse different consumption behaviours. The results show that free time is the main factor that influences passengers to choose entertainment while waiting at the terminal, and the use of airline lounges has a negative influence on the extent of engagement in all three types of passenger consumption behaviour, especially dining. Furthermore, passengers’ dining expenditure has a positive effect on the extent of engagement in entertainment, but a negative influence on the extent of engagement in airport shopping. Passengers’ preferences of airport shopping area after they have cleared security is positively associated with the extent of engagement in both shopping and entertainment but negatively associated with the extent of engagement in dining activities.