2023 ITS Australia Awards: Finalists, and iMOVE R&D award

The finalists for the 2023 Annual ITS Australia Awards have been announced, and included amongst the list are three iMOVE projects. iMOVE Australia will again be the sponsor of the Excellence in Research and Development Award.

Our congratulations of course to all 34 finalists in all categories, but we’d also like to pass on three three iMOVE that will feature in the judging. Those three, their nominators and nominated projects are:

AWARD CATEGORY: Intelligent Mobility Award

ODIN PASS: A Mobility as a Service Trial in Queensland – Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads

The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) and The University of Queensland (UQ) are actively exploring how Mobility as a Service (MaaS) schemes can enhance personal mobility locally, with a particular focus on increasing public and active transport patronage.

• More information on this project: ODIN PASS: A Mobility as Service trial at UQ

AWARD CATEGORY: Intelligent Mobility Award

FLEX – Flinders Express – Flinders University

Using the lessons learnt from the Flinders Express (FLEX) autonomous shuttle trial conducted at the Tonsley Innovation District by Flinders University, the Department of Planning, Transport, and Infrastructure, RAA and other industry supporters, this project will deliver new and innovative use cases for FLEX.

• More information on this project: FLEXible use case – enhancing the Tonsley shuttle trial

AWARD CATEGORY: Intelligent Mobility Award

Community Transport of the Future Research Project – Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney

This project investigated the systemic issues, opportunities, and barriers for overcoming transport disadvantage and enhancing community transport in Australia. The full partner list on the project is: ITS Australia, Department of Transport (WA), Transport for NSW, Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland), Department of Transport Victoria, and the University of Technology Sydney.

• More information on this project: Innovative local transport: Community transport of the future or, at the final report for the project, Community transport: Defining the problems, fixing the future

And …

Congratulations also to SkedGo’s nomination in the Intelligent Mobility Award category, for its Adapting MaaS Technology To Create People-Centric Mobility Solutions. SkedGo was of course a partner in our MaaS trial in Sydney project.

We hope we’ve included all of our projects included in the finalists’ nomination … if we’ve missed one please let us know and we’ll edit edit the article!

Excellence in Research and Development Award

iMOVE is proud to again sponsor this award, and congratulates and wishes good luck to all six nominees:

• Heads-Up Solution – Acusensus Australia
• Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Transport Across Roads, Defence, Mines, Countries and Farms – Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
• Community Transport of the Future Research Project – Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
• The Kapsch Intelligent Corridor in AIMES – Kapsch TrafficCom Australia
• Portable Traffic AI System – Sensor Dynamics
• SmartGarbos – AI-Powered 5G Garbage Trucks for Roadside Asset Management – Swinburne University of Technology

This category “Acknowledges and congratulates R&D activity undertaken solely or in collaborative research programs that recognises an organisation for its groundbreaking transport technology, research, development or innovation.”

More information and ticket purchase

Visit the 13th ITS Australia Awards page for more information on the finalists and categories, and to purchase tickets to attend the event.