The best way to predict the future,

is to create it.

Alan Key (IT Entrepreneur)

In May 2018 a few passionate Northlanders embarked on an ambitious journey – to make Whangarei a destination, an attractive & cool place to work & live.

To do this we came up with the Vision Zero Whangarei – no emissions, no crashes, no hassle by 2025.

We can’t do this alone.

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Whangarei in Te Reo means meeting place of the whales. We like to see Whangarei as the meeting place of the artistic and innovative talent. A place where people like to come and develop leading edge ideas, products, services and at the same time live a balanced, safe life.

Come and join us on this exciting journey.

Mobility as a Service – Vision Zero for Whangarei
The Challenge

Whangarei is going through its biggest transformation in the last decade/s. The city is growing: a new billion dollar hospital will be build, over 15,000 new houses will be build in the next 10-15 years, traffic is increasing, car parks are getting scarce and expensive.

This is a reflection of a global urbanisation challenge.

Some Facts & Figures

By 2030 over 70% of the global population will live in urban environment.
On average every day one person dies in a road crash in NZ, over 1.3 million people die on roads globally every year.
Over 3 million people die of respiratory diseases which are transport related.

The Solution Options

With new mobility concepts Whangarei could become a leader for provincial towns in New Zealand and internationally. Vision Zero – is presenting a realistic concept to transition Whangarei to a new mobility future.

There is not one solution to all our mobility needs. Here is a list of some multi-modal Options

Notes: capex (capital expense to buy), opex (operating expense, includes fuel, insurance, tax, parking)

Mode	Summary	Pros	Cons	Cost/km	Comments
Individual Transport
Walk	Healthiest and cheapest way to get from A to B	Healthy Cheap Environmentally the best	Can be hard for unfit or disabled people	Zero	Should always be your option one, ask yourself why you can not walk first
Bike	Push bike, very popular in European cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich	Healthy affordable	If there are no bike tracks, can be dangerous	Zero, once Capex of buying a bike is absorbed	Best on dedicated bike tracks
e-bike	Like push bike but easier	Good for daily commute if you don’t want to sweat	Still expensive Need to charge up every couple of days
Scooter	Great for short trips Our Mayor is using the Scooter to get to work most days.	Easy to get around Can be folded away	Small Capex
e-scooter	Very popular in Paris and other big European Cities	Very easy to get around town	Capex of a few hundred NZD Needs recharging every few days
One-wheel scooter	Popular in China and European cities	Easy to get around Easy to store away in a bag	Can take a little while to get balance, not for everyone Capex of a few hundred NZD Needs recharging every few days
Car	Most popular mode of individual transport in NZ	Gives you lots of flexibility including pulling your toys to the beach etc	Huge environmental impact Expensive to run Sits idle over 20 hrs most days Is typically your second biggest purchase over your lifetime		In 2017 the most sold new vehicle in NZ is a ute like Ford Ranger
Electric Vehicle (EV)	In NZ one of the best forms of individual transport if you need to transport heavy gear or travel long distances	Like normal car but less environmental impact	High capex Range anxiety for early EV models (now most new EV’s can do 200-350 km per charge, fast charge takes 20 min, can charge over night on cheap electricity at home)		With over 80% of NZ electricity from renewable resources, this makes more sense than importing $8billion of fossil fuel from overseas every year for our cars
Hydrogen Vehicle (HV)	One of the cleanest form of transport fuel	Huge range of 800 km+	Higher capex due to low numbers of HV Virtually no hydrogen refuelling stations in NZ		Hydrogen has the most dense energy storage capacity, but can be dangerous if not handled carefully
Public Transport
Bus	Most buses in Northland are old and not very clean	If you have high patronage, buses are a great mode of public transport	If underutilised, buses are expensive to run, need to be subsidized and are environmentally not very clean
e-Bus	A cleaner form of public transport	See EV arguments			China is shifting to e-buses (over 350,000 in 2017 alone)
Hydrogen Bus	One of the cleanest form of public transport	See HV arguments	Expensive capex No refuelling network, yet
e-Train	Not very applicable to Whangarei or Northland, as we lack the number of people likely to use trains				Business case of rail in Northland is hard to make: needs over $1-2 billion investment for very few commercial and only few public customers
Taxi	Good for short trips				Digital taxi services like Uber are another, often cheaper alternative to traditional taxi services
e-Taxi		Like normal car but less environmental impact	High capex Range anxiety for early EV models (now most new EV’s can do 200-350km per charge, fast charge takes 20min, can charge over night on cheap electricity at home)
e-Vaporetto	Whangarei Harbour lends itself to this awesome form of transport	Coolest way to commute to work	Would take guts by WDC to develop a vision and then negotiate a PPI with e-ferry provider		Check out Venice vaporettos. Could be used from the Heads to town with stops along the way
AV Pod	Whangarei could design & build our own EV-AV pods	Lead NZ in rural city public transport solutions	Takes guts from local/ central government and local community to dare to dream to become mobility as a service leader
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