News - Transport

GCC's Dr Kevin Cox and Alan Kerlin are working on a website to connect people interested in car pooling. Their idea was first floated at the Gungahlin Sustainability Fair late last year and received strong support from residents.

A new concept they are exploring is to encourage car-pooling in an innovative way that rewards people who carpool with vouchers they can use to pay for public transport on other days. To work though, this idea would need to be integrated into the current ACTION project to implement a new $8M electronic ticketing system.

The concept has some development to go, but if it is successful, the idea could make a significant contribution to reducing peak hour traffic on ACT roads.