Decarbonising Urban Mobility with Land Use and Transport Policies

Acknowledgements

This report is an output of the OECD Environmental Policy Committee and its Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies (WPIEEP). The report was carried out under the overall responsibility of Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division in the OECD Environment Directorate.

All chapters of the report were authored by Ioannis Tikoudis, Tobias Udsholt and Walid Oueslati of the OECD Environment Directorate. Walid Oueslati co-ordinated and oversaw the work on the report. The individual inputs of the key contributors are as follows:

 

Ioannis Tikoudis	Conceptual design of MOLES, development of MOLES 1.1 software (Auckland version), model calibration and simulations, drafting, data collection and processing, statistical analysis, GIS data analysis and visualisation and communication with stakeholders.
Tobias Udsholt	Drafting, data collection and processing, statistical analysis, GIS data analysis and visualisation and communication with stakeholders.
Walid Oueslati	Project co-ordination and supervision, conceptual design of MOLES, drafting, data collection and communication with stakeholders.

The authors would like to Alexandros Dimitropoulos for his valuable suggestions and Katherine Farrow for her careful and detailed comments on earlier drafts of the report. Further, useful comments and suggestions were received from delegates to the OECD Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies (WPIEEP). The authors also owe thanks to OECD colleagues who participated in internal OECD seminars, offered suggestions on the development of MOLES software, or provided feedback on the model and the results of the study. These include Abel Schumann, Willem Adema, Luiz De Mello, Peter Hoeller, Boris Cournede and Åsa Johansson. Other OECD colleagues who provided input on various aspects of the modelling framework and the conclusions of the report include Jean Chateau, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Rudiger Ahrend, Sebastian Barnes and Arnaud Atoch.

The OECD gratefully acknowledges the support and input provided by the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment and Auckland Council. Multiple other stakeholders, including Auckland Transport, New Zealand Ministry of Transport, New Zealand Transport Authority, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, New Zealand Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and the New Zealand Treasury have also facilitated the study by providing data and offering useful input. Feedback and comments from Simon Upton (New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment), Mike Warnock (Auckland Council), and Tamara Linnhoff (New Zealand delegate to WPIEEP) are gratefully acknowledged. The authors especially acknowledge the contribution of Edward Hearnshaw (former New Zealand delegate to WPIEEP), who organised the OECD mission to New Zealand and provided instrumental support to the work in its initial stages.

This report is part of the OECD Spatial Planning Instruments and the Environment (SPINE) project. The SPINE project investigates the role played by spatial planning and land use policies in managing the trade-offs between environmental, economic and social objectives.