The School of Emergent Priorities scores 312 households on PACE, and Independent is now the only remaining ticket to the bay.
A five-level active-travel maturity model now gates the afternoon kiss-and-go bay, with no ordinary override
The walking-bus marshal already had a column for Independent. A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities now makes that column the afternoon parking permit.
Led by Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow, with Senior Research Fellow Anneke Tolan and Dr Lindiwe Achterberg, Lecturer, the study scores 312 households on fourteen primary-school walking-bus routes against five named levels of PACE, the Pedestrian Accreditation and Conveyance Evaluation. Independent is awarded at four consecutive logged mornings. From 14 July the afternoon kiss-and-go bay is reserved for Independent households, with no ordinary override.
Independent share rises from 8 percent to 31 percent once the bay is reserved. Median walked metres among newly Independent households is 70 metres, against 640 metres among Term-1 Independents. Paired households, barred from the bay, walk further. Every Independent household retained the permit at Term-2 close.
The School has lodged the marshal’s Independent column as the only remaining afternoon-bay instrument, and will publish the Independent share as the school’s Active Travel accreditation figure for 2027.
Four ticks at the corner is a walk the bay can recognise. The metres after that were never the permit.
— Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Emergent Priorities
The method pairs marshal tick-sheets with a kerbside metre-count across Terms 1 and 2. Thresholds were pre-registered. Dr Tolan said the tick-sheet “was already the school’s account of who walked, and the bay is now reading that account as the permit.”
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.21sszy.