8 January 2023
Smart traffic technology a step closer to launching in Australia
An SBS audio interview that includes iMOVE MD Ian Christensen speaking about C-ITS, how it works, its safety and environmental benefits, the Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot, and the need for the Federal Government to adopt a nationally consistent approach to rolling out the technology across Australia.
VIEW ARTICLE11 December 2022
Mate, where’s my self-driving car?
An article about the state of play in regard to self-driving vehicles appearing on Australian roads. Amongst the interviewees here are iMOVE MD Ian Christensen, and Professor Michael Milford.
VIEW ARTICLE30 September 2022
Future of hydrogen fuel in the spotlight in NSW
iMOVE, Transport for NSW, Australian Road Research Board and Mov3ment have joined forces to launch a research project designed to provide a roadmap for hydrogen fuel technology adoption in New South Wales’ heavy vehicle fleet.
Find out more about the project at Investigating the viability of hydrogen fuel for heavy vehicle use.
VIEW ARTICLE30 August 2022
Driverless buses hit Adelaide roads in renewed Tonsley trial
Video of the relaunch of the FLEX driverless shuttle trial in Adelaide’s Tonsley innovation district, with iMOVE’s MD Ian Christensen filmed taking part in a lap of the route.
Find out more about the project at FLEXible use case – enhancing the Tonsley shuttle trial.
WATCH THE VIDEO2 June 2022
Hands off the wheel
See the highly-automated ZOE2 car in action in its public trial, on public roads, in Queensland’s Bundaberg. Hear Amit Trivedi, the Department of Transport and Main Roads’ (Queensland) Connected and Automated Vehicle Pilot Lead speak on exactly what ZOE2 is doing, and how.
Find out more about the project at Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving Safety Study.
WATCH THE VIDEO24 May 2022
Study says Australian transport falling behind globally
A final report handed down by iMove Australia says the nation’s transport sector is falling behind international trends when it comes to transport digitisation. The project aimed to review Australia’s transport and freight sector relating to network performance, efficiency and productivity.
Find out more, and download the report at World best practice digitisation in transport/freight: And Australia?.
VIEW ARTICLE24 May 2022
Sydney commuters saved $5.6b by working from home
A new report – prepared by Tulipwood Economics for the iMove Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and entitled The Prospects for Working From Home: Assessing the Evidence – evaluated the impact of pandemic WFH through four projects run by transport authorities and universities in Queensland, NSW, South Australia, and Western Australia.
Find out more, and download the report at Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence.
VIEW ARTICLE23 November 2021
Data is the key to improving productivity and efficiency in the supply chain
iMOVE MD Ian Christensen is interviewed in this piece about the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities commissioning iMOVE to conduct a comprehensive study of the state of freight data in Australia. iMOVE projects mentioned in the piece include the Freight consignment data aggregation pilot and Freight data requirements study.
VIEW ARTICLE17 November 2021
UQ seeks 500 Tesla owners to gauge how EVs could act as grid batteries
The University of Queensland is seeking 500 Tesla owners for what it says will be a world-first trial to gauge of potential of using spare battery capacity in electric vehicles to back up the grid, support renewables and power homes. This is part of the iMOVE project, Electric vehicles: Supporting uptake, investigating smart charging.
VIEW ARTICLE11 February 2021
New technology gives smart cars ‘x-ray’-like vision
Australian researchers have developed a technology that allows autonomous vehicles to track moving pedestrians hidden behind buildings and cyclists obscured by cars, trucks, and buses. The autonomous vehicle uses game changing tools that allows it to ‘’see the world around it using x-ray style vision that penetrates through to pedestrian blind spots. The technology has been developed as part of a project involving iMOVE Australia, Cohda Wireless, and the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics.
VIEW ARTICLE11 February 2021
The drones helping our remote communities
iMOVE MD Ian Christensen on the John Stanley show on radio 2GB, talking about the promising and important new iMOVE project, Integrating drones into NT Health. Click the button below to listen to the 10-minute long segment.
LISTEN TO THE SEGMENT28 January 2021
Qld government must have detailed maps to keep driverless cars on track
If self-driving cars are to become common on our roads, governments need to actively partner with private companies to develop the digital infrastructure to support them. That is the finding of a major Queensland government-commissioned report into the feasibility of driverless cars on our roads, the latest step in a long-term investigation into the viability of the technology.
VIEW ARTICLE11 January 2021
Limited real-time freight data causing delays
The findings of a freight data sharing study, which involved trials with companies including Woolworths, Nestle and Toll Group, has outlined the opportunities for improvement in the sector, as well as identifying why supply chains are suffering. The iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre study undertaken with the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) and GS1 Australia recently released its report, the findings of which will assist the Australian Government in setting up the National Freight Data Hub.
VIEW ARTICLE21 December 2020
Road safety boost: CAVs can now see around corners
Scientists from the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics have shown how connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can see people around corners and even through buildings, as well as dodge running pedestrians using an emerging technology called cooperative perception, or collective perception messaging
VIEW ARTICLE15 December 2020
One on One: Ian Christensen MD of iMOVE
An interview with iMOVE MD Ian Christensen in the December/January 2021 issue of Automotive & Road Transport magazine.
VIEW ARTICLE19 November 2020
Research reveals ‘talking’ cars could save lives on the road
Research from iMOVE Australia, ITS Australia, and the University of Melbourne has found digital communication technologies that allow cars to intelligently interpret surroundings and warn of hazards could reduce vehicle crashes by 78 per cent.
VIEW ARTICLE19 May 2020
Towards smarter transport
Three years into its 10-year funding period, iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre shares some of its early successes and reflects on the value of its emerging collaborations and need for national coordination.
VIEW ARTICLE4 May 2020
The lockdown has meant quiet roads and empty public transport in the middle of the week; is this calm about to change?
iMOVE MD Ian Christensen‘s appearance on ABC Radio Sydney’s Focus program, in a segment discussing the impact and influence of COVID-19 on transport. Also appearing is Professor David Hensher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies.
VIEW ARTICLE2 December 2019
Liddle becomes the new iMOVE Chair
Transport research centre iMOVE has a new leader at the helm, with Gary Liddle AO announced the newly elected Chair.
VIEW ARTICLE22 November 2019
Squaring the circle
An article by David Bonn in Thinking Highways magazine, outlining that with its background and access to companies operating in the transport sector iMOVE is ideally placed to support companies establishing R & D activities in Australia.
VIEW ARTICLE4 November 2019
Canberra seeks industry input on Freight Data Hub
After the National Freight Data Hub concept came to life in April through a federal funding announcement, and in the aftermath of iMOVE’s Freight Data Requirements Study, industry input is now being sought into its design.
VIEW ARTICLE16 October 2019
World first C-ITS cybersecurity system
iMOVE MD Ian Christensen comments on the world’s first production-grade Root Certificate Authority (CA) that is based on ETSI Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) standards, and is a part of iMOVE’s C-ITS Pilot Security Credential Management System: Evaluation and Research project.
VIEW ARTICLE13 August 2019
Queensland debuts “most advanced” driverless car in Oz
The Queensland government, along with iMOVE Australia and QUT, launched what it’s calling “the most advanced automated vehicle in Australia” on Tuesday morning, completing a six kilometre trip around suburban streets in Brisbane’s south without driver intervention.
VIEW ARTICLE15 April 2019
Australia’s iMOVE consortium launching MaaS trial in Sydney
The Australian iMOVE Cooperative Research Center (CRC) consortium is launching its second Mobility as a Service (MaaS) project with a trial of an app-based multimodal transportation ecosystem in Sydney.
VIEW ARTICLE10 April 2019
Data could save logistics companies $106 billion
The Australian Financial Review interviews iMOVE Managing Director, Ian Christensen, about its Freight Data Requirements Study, and its prompting the Federal Government’s proposed $5.2 million National Freight Data Hub, and another $3.3 million to set up a Pilot Freight Data Exchange.
VIEW ARTICLE3 April 2019
Aims are efficiency and community amenity
An article by Ian Christensen, iMOVE’s Managing Director, about the challenges in the freight and logistics sector, and the opportunities for technology to help us better manage the challenges, and protect the community from its worst impacts.
VIEW ARTICLE16 January 2019
Massive Australian freight data study draws to an end
One study is currently underway into the Australia’s freight data requirements, and iMOVE has been contracted to carry out the study.
VIEW ARTICLE15 August 2018
Ian Christensen, mover and shaker
An interview with Ian Christensen, iMOVE’s Managing Director, was featured in the Movers and Shakers section of The National Collision Repairer magazine. Click the link below to read the online version of the magazine. Ian’s interview is on pages 12 to 14.
VIEW ARTICLE11 June 2018
Cubic signs new R&D agreement with iMOVE
Cubic Corporation has announced that its Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) business division has signed an agreement to participate in a research and development (R&D) project designed to improve traffic flow in Melbourne and other Australian cities through improved situational awareness for network operators.
VIEW ARTICLE15 May 2018
Australian iMOVE project to study big data’s role in improving transport management
The Australian iMOVE Cooperative Research Center (CRC) consortium has launched a new project that will study and evaluate the use of multiple data sources for improved transport management and journey reliability.
VIEW ARTICLE6 April 2018
Connected cars: iMOVE prepares Ipswich trial of black boxes to reduce congestion
The Queensland town of Ipswich is hosting a project that will have cars ‘talk’ to one another to aid in the reduction of accidents and traffic congestion.
VIEW ARTICLE19 February 2018
iMOVE makes its first move
THE newly funded co-operative research centre focused on intelligent transport systems, iMOVE, will partner with the Queensland government in Australia’s largest trial of connected vehicles.
VIEW ARTICLE22 September 2017
Driverless cars: safer perhaps, but professor warns of privacy risks
On Thursday, the federal government formally launched a $55m bid to answer some of the questions that surround the nascent technology.
VIEW ARTICLE17 June 2017
iMOVE CRC appoints new Chair
iMOVE CRC has announced the appointment of Ian Murray AM as its Chair, effective immediately.
VIEW ARTICLE19 April 2017
Isuzu Australia CEO backs 10-year, $55 million grant to the iMove Co-operative Research Centre
Phil Taylor, Isuzu Australia Limited director and chief operating officer Phil Taylor, has praised the Federal government’s funding of iMOVE CRC.
VIEW ARTICLE13 March 2017
Government commits $55 million to vehicle tech research in congestion fight
The Federal Government has announced a $55 million investment over 10 years into digital and evolving vehicle technologies to help improve traffic flow.
VIEW ARTICLE8 March 2017
$55m funding to kick-start iMove CRC
The iMOVE CRC will explore evolving new vehicle technologies that can help reduce congestion, fuel use and emissions while improving national productivity and competitiveness.
VIEW ARTICLE8 March 2017
Green light for transport R&D
Research into intelligent transport systems and infrastructure will expand at Flinders University after the Federal Government announced its funding of iMOVE CRC.
VIEW ARTICLE7 March 2017
ALC happy with iMOVE CRC bid decision
The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has welcomed the government’s acceptance of the intelligent transport systems industry’s bid to develop a new co-operative research centre.
VIEW ARTICLE29 August 2016
The future of transport systems
As the Automotive Australia 2020 CRC wraps up, CEO Ian Christensen looks forward to the new iMOVE CRC.
VIEW ARTICLE