Bruce James

• Master of Public Administration
• Professor (Associate) at Griffith University

The paper outlines and discuss the policy rationale and implications of the Queensland State Government decision to outsource the management and redevelopment of the 4,580 public housing dwellings in the City of Logan to the community housing sector, referred to as the Logan Renewal Initiative (LRI). This was the first large scale transfer of publi...

The Queensland Cycling Strategy 2017-2027 (QCS) has a vision for more cycling, more often. Safe and connected cycling infrastructure plays a key role in encouraging more people to ride bikes – especially for women, young people and other riders who are less confident or more vulnerable. Cycling infrastructure provides a safer environment for peopl...

Lessons of value uplift/sharing for two major public transport projects in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Value capture for government to gain a share in growth in land and property values due public infrastructure investments has been explored in numerous academic journals, government policy documents and public infrastructure business cases. The rationale supporting value capture as a public policy intervention is well documented yet the uptake of va...

The Productivity Commission defined the outcome of urban planning as creating efficient and effective functioning cities. Governments have the dual planning tools of regulation and pricing. Infrastructure charges for new developments are a key pricing tool that seeks to ensure beneficiaries of infrastructure help pay for it. The Queensland Governme...

Australian governments invested significant sums in voluntary travel behaviour interventions in the 1990s and 2000s. The Travel Blending and Individualised Marketing (IndiMark) schemes based on social marking were highly controversial. This paper explores the rise and fall of the interventions in the two main jurisdictions where they were employed...

Travel demand management is a means of reducing traffic congestion and achieving more sustainable transport outcomes. Application of several voluntary travel behaviour change projects under the TravelSmart brand name formed the basis of travel demand management approach used in Western Australia between 1997 and 2017. Enthusiasm for the TravelSmart...

Ten year plan released by the Government of Western Australia for the TravelSmart program 2000-2010. The principal author was Bruce James, Manager Travel Demand Management, Department of Transport. The 10 Year plan provides the policy context for TravelSmart, advocacy and the breath of the TravelSmart initiative. The document if useful context for...

Review of cultural change models and their relevance to cultural change in the Australian planning profession.

200 words): State and local governments have many levers to bring about better land use and transport integration. These can be categorised into strategic asset management (infrastructure, services and non-built solutions), regulations (land use and transport), pricing (subsidies) and build capacity (others deliver transport solutions). The challen...

The integration of land use planning and transport planning to achieve sustainable travel behaviour has been espoused as a desirable outcome for many years. Development and establishment of appropriate institutional arrangements coupled with effective policy and planning processes is a crucial component in the achievement of this desirable outcome....

Individualised Marketing is a relatively new and successful methodology attracting significant attention from transport professionals and those with policy goals related to achieving reductions in car traffic or increases in the use of public transport, walking and cycling. This paper provides a summary of published results to date from implementat...

Voluntary travel behaviour change has been the subject of a large amount of scrutiny as it increasingly a component of urban transport strategies to achieve reduction in the degree of reliance on private car use. Pilot projects and large-scale applications in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA have demonstrated widely differing level...

Individualised Marketing is a relatively new and successful methodology attracting significant attention from transport professionals and those with policy goals related to achieving reductions in car traffic or increases in the use of public transport, walking and cycling. This paper provides a summary of published results to date from implementat...

Travel demand management or mobility management is growing in interest as political decision-makers realise that it is not financially and socially feasible to attempt to build enough roads to satisfy growing car use. In reaching this conclusion, political decision-makers confront a dilemma. Car users want quicker travel times for their car trips b...

The Western Australia Department for Planning and Infrastructure has initiated a unique information provision program to decrease the use of cars and increase nonmotorized transport. The program contains a component in South Perth that uses individualized marketing techniques to inform travelers about alternatives to the private automobile. Data ab...

Trends in travel behaviour in the Perth Metropolitan Region has shown that walking trips (from an origin to a destination) as a mode share have been declining. The number of trips people make has remained constant with the trips previously undertaken by foot being undertaken by car. This paper presents the results of indepth research undertaken for...

This paper outlines the methodology, measurement of benefits and returns of applying Individualised Marketing for the whole of the City of South Perth. The City of South Perth is an inner suburban municipality with a population of 35,000 residents. The benefit cost analysis was developed as part of the assessment process to attract capital works fu...

Presentation of travel survey results for use by local community. Findings include most car trips are over very short distances that could be undertaken by walking and cycling. The attraction of trip destinations are presented using contour maps.

Introduction The need to change the mode share for travel in the Perth Metropolitan Region is clearly enunciated as a set of targets in the region's Metropolitan Transport Strategy. The traditional mobility management approach to achieve mode change has been through the provision of transport services and infrastructure, including pricing, and the...

The need to reduce the growth of car driver only trips in urban areas has been identified in transport strategies for Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. One of the available tools to mitigate this growth is travel demand management Travel demand management requires behaviour change interventions common in public policy areas such as health.. Th...

This paper outlines the potential level of behaviour change that can be achieved through the behavioural approach without the need for system improvements, pricing and land use policies. The in-depth research technique employed has been developed by Werner Brög over many years and its application in the Cities of South Perth and Subiaco and Town of...