Mode Shift

Context and purpose: This is a short draft slide deck titled 'Mode Shift', presented by Jeremy O'Brien, Manager - Behaviour + Choice, NZTA (Waka Kotahi) (p.1). Every content slide carries the footer 'DRAFT - For discussion purposes only'. No date, audience or venue is printed; the slides cite web sources accessed on 27-28 July 2021 (pp.4-8). The file name and master list associate it with Queenstown, but the slide text and images reviewed contain no reference to Queenstown or any local project.

Content: Slide 2 states national targets of a 40% reduction in deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (p.2). Slide 3 lists Waka Kotahi outcomes: safe; meeting current and future needs; environmentally sustainable; and effectively and efficiently moving people and freight (p.3). Slides 4-6 illustrate outcomes using third-party material: a Canadian chart showing lower fatality rates for public transport than for car travel (p.4, citing vtpi.org); a chart of emissions per trip by mode (p.5, citing BBC Future / Union of Concerned Scientists); and a Cycling Promotion Fund photo comparing road space used by the same number of people in a bus, on bicycles and in cars (p.6, citing humantransit.org). Slide 7, 'A big hill to climb', reproduces Keeping Cities Moving statistics: 91% of total distance travelled is by drivers or passengers in a car or van; 83% of total trip legs are made by a driver or passenger in a car or van; 92% of households have access to a car (56% have two or more); and a 55% increase in New Zealand's vehicle fleet between 2000 and 2017 (p.7). Slide 8 shows the Mode Shift Action Plans intervention hierarchy, with integrated planning considered first, then managing demand, best use of the existing system, and new infrastructure last at higher cost (p.8). Slide 9 presents Avoid-Shift-Improve (p.9), slide 10 lists focus areas of investment, behaviour, partnering and planning (p.10), and slide 11 asks the audience what would make walking, cycling or public transport 'awesome' for work, children, shopping, and travel and leisure (p.11).

The deck makes no recommendations, sets no actions and contains no costs, patronage or mode share figures for Queenstown.

Mass rapid transit: The deck says nothing about mass rapid transit or offline public transport between Frankton and the Town Centre. The only related term is the legend label 'Mass transit' on a generic third-party emissions chart (p.5).