Transportation In Victoria

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A smart city uses technology, or intellectual design, in order to help sustain a community in reaching goals both environmentally and economically. In Victoria, an expansion of its current bicycle infrastructure alongside an improved public transportation system, could see a significant decrease in private transportation and general vehicle congestion within the city and its surrounding areas. Currently, Victoria has very little incentive for citizens to use public transportation as a main, or supplementary form of transportation. Mass amounts of private transportation has caused inefficient traffic patterns around a number of locations in the Greater Victoria Area. Public transit is abundant in Victoria, but inconvenient routes and times, …show more content…

Politically, resistance from the mayor or city council could prevent construction of additional bike lanes required to form an interconnected bike lane system. Support from significant percentages of Victoria’s population would be required to persuade any reluctant political opposition. Economic concerns stem from finding sufficient funding required to construct additional bike lanes and traffic-related infrastructure to make this initiative possible. Financial responsibility will primarily fall onto the city and paid for using taxpayers' money to improve the transportation infrastructure of the city. Improved bicycle infrastructure sees a direct correlation to increased local business revenue, as well as reduced costs associated with maintaining traffic based infrastructure (Toolkit BC, n.d.). The social impact of this initiative is expected to create some controversy from present day commuters and users or residents of affected roads and city blocks. Technological barriers for a bike system in the Greater Victoria Area are quite small, as no “cutting edge” technology is required for this smart initiative. Environmental factors to consider is the physical characteristics of the local geography and its impact in constructing additional bike lanes and additional required traffic infrastructure. …show more content…

We want to create a simple framework for the implementation of bicycle systems, so other cities and communities have the blueprints to implement a similar smart system in their respective areas. These systems are designed to have a long term effect on reducing overall traffic throughout the city and drastically increase the number of bicycle and public transport commuters. With an increase in commuters taking alternate forms of transportation, we expect to see “ride together” programs that encourage people to commute in groups. Lastly, we want to get organizations and the city to work together in tracking commuter’s commitment to alternate forms of transportation and offer tax rebates as incentives to switch from other private forms of

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