VLC releases new version of Zenith Traffic Estimates
VLC has officially released v12 of its annual output of Zenith Traffic Estimates, delivering up-to-date traffic flow information to portray the where, when, why and how of road travel. Covering all of...
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How do you forecast travel in a post-COVID world?
The mode, timing and frequency of travel has drastically changed since COVID-19 took hold in early 2020. What does this mean for the development and validation of transport forecasting models? Do you...
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Venuri Jayatillaka wins VLC Chris Turvey Memorial Award 2023
Venuri Jayatillaka has been recognised for her outstanding work by being awarded VLC’s Chris Turvey Memorial Award for 2023. Venuri, a Senior Consultant (Transport Advisory) who has been with VLC for...
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Future transport challenges facing local government
Changes to how people travel today and how it will be influenced in the future raises some head-scratching challenges that local governments must overcome. Accessibility Accessibility is a key...
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Why transport modellers can’t forget about freight
Freight is given sparse consideration by most transport models, but doing so glosses over the true importance of this vital task. Freight is more important than you think Most transport models concern...
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VLC advances to next phase of NSW Smart City Innovation Challenge
Transport for New South Wales has officially announced that VLC has advanced to the feasibility study phase of the NSW Smart City Innovation Challenge 2023. The goal of this year’s challenge is to...
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EV owners could hold the key to lowering Australia’s future energy costs
Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries could help alleviate Australia’s growing energy storage problem during the country’s renewable energy transition, a newly released report from NineSquared, VLC and...
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VLC achieves carbon neutral status for the financial year 2023
VLC has reached carbon neutrality for the third year in a row after fully offsetting the business’s activities for the financial year 2023. The business has maintained carbon neutral status since it...
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Case study: Cross River Rail and the benefits of LUTI
Transport projects often aim to induce land use changes, but in standard project modelling and appraisal, land use impacts are either totally ignored or applied in an ad hoc way. Using Brisbane’s Cross...
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VLC wins funding from NSW Government to develop active transport planning tool
VLC has been awarded $1 million of funding from the NSW Government to develop an active transport planning tool within their geospatial analytics platform Planwisely. The tool will help Transport for...
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How do you balance road safety, walkability and congestion?
Road deaths are up in NSW this year and 15% of those have been pedestrians. So, do we need to take a more holistic approach to road safety, and what happens when we do? Last week was National Road...
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What could happen if public transport was free in SEQ? An exploratory...
Queensland’s announcement of 50c public transport fares reminded us of a recent modelling exercise where we took this policy one step further and asked: what would happen if PT was free in South East...
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