TransportCamp Returns in 2022
After a three-year hiatus, TransportCamp is returning to Melbourne and Sydney. Since 2019, the world has encountered drastic change and increasing critical uncertainties that have challenged how we currently envision our transport futures.
Namely, the COVID-19 pandemic has shattered our previous understanding of how we work, live, and play. Throughout Australian cities, numerous lockdowns and stay-at-home orders had been imposed as a measure to curb the virus transmission. Moving forward, working-from-home arrangements have been an emerging approach that many businesses have embraced. However, how has this model affected our understanding of the commute? Our epistemological understanding of transport and the role of cities is ever-changing, therefore TransportCamp provides an opportunity to further interrogate these ideas within a collaborative, supportive, and curious environment.
Recent advances in technology — mobile computing, open source software, open data and spatial analysis — present an opportunity to improve mobility more immediately and at a lower cost than has ever been possible in the past. Namely, the increase in mobility as a service and motorised personal mobility modes, demonstrate how new perceptions and attitudes are emerging that challenge how we move throughout our cities. TransportCamp is an opportunity to centre innovation within transport and mobility discourse, and also explore potential conflicts and challenges that may arise.
Is a post-car city realistic? How can we reduce carbon emissions? Do those most vulnerable in our community have access to public transport? These are the complex wicked problems that should be considered within an academic landscape, professional practice, and the wider community.
The TransportCamp ‘unconference’ brings together transport professionals, researchers, technologists and citizens interested in transport, technology and innovation. This phenomenon was first introduced in 2011 by the partnership between OpenPlans and TransportationCamp East. This initial ‘unconference’ was hosted at the New York Law School, New York, and engaged with user-generated session topics. Following the success of the initial event in New York, TransportationCamps have been introduced across numerous cities such as Montreal, Washington, Atlanta and Boston.
In 2014 this phenomenon was implemented in Melbourne within an Australian context and after its initial success was expanded to an additional event in Sydney. This year's event will be hosted by CrowdSpot and Movement and Place Consulting, at Melbourne Town Hall.
Tickets for the 2022 Melbourne event are available through the link below. In anticipation, we ask you to watch for updates, as preparation for the 2022 Sydney event is underway.
