ITS Monday: Edition 22, 2024
ITS Monday is a small, weekly collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, CAVs and Australia, e-scooter law changes in SA, safety challenges of big cars, autonomous compost, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Riders urged to recycle e-bike batteries amid fire risk
- Dockless shared micromobility taxed 23x more than cars
- Lower speed limits don’t just save lives – they make NZ towns and cities better places to live
- New Zealand’s first fully electric bus network is a booming success
- Auckland Transport launches major new campaign platform ‘Mix Your Go’
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This week’s articles
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Riders urged to recycle e-bike batteries amid fire risk
“Just like their wheels, the lithium batteries on electric bikes and scooters are set to go round and round in Australia in an extension of the national recycling scheme. The Battery Stewardship Council revealed it had signed up three electric bicycle and scooter brands to its its B-cycle program and was holding discussions with other manufacturers and retailers to widen collections.”
Related iMOVE articles:
Related iMOVE projects:
- Road use activity data: Cyclists, pedestrians and micromobility
- Impacts of eRideables on the transport task in WA
- EV batteries: Repair, refurbish, repurpose, recycle
- Second lives for electric vehicle batteries
Dockless shared micromobility taxed 23x more than cars
“The finding comes from a report co-authored by Lime, Portland State University, and Sonoma State University, which examines tax and fee structures across 120 cities in 16 countries. Shared micromobility was found to be taxed twice through sales tax and programme fees which mean city governments receive on average 16.4% of the cost of every dockless e-bike or e-scooter.”
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Lower speed limits don’t just save lives – they make NZ towns and cities better places to live
From the NZ edition of The Conversation, is this article by Simon Kingham, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Canterbury.
“There’s no doubt speed is a major factor in the number of deaths and injuries on New Zealand roads. It causes more injuries than alcohol and drugs, and it’s estimated that 87% of current speed limits are incorrectly set. But there’s a counter argument that speed limits should only be reduced in “high-risk areas”, with school environs being the most common example. Widespread speed limit reduction, the argument goes, will waste drivers’ time and damage the economy.”
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New Zealand’s first fully electric bus network is a booming success
“Public transport use in Palmerston North and Ashhurst, New Zealand has skyrocketed, with its new network seeing more people jumping on buses than ever before. The new network, launched in early March, replaced Palmerston’s meandering, infrequent and confusing bus routes with fast, frequent and easy-to-understand lines, while also doubling the number of services each week.”
Related iMOVE article:
Related iMOVE projects:
- Gippsland community e-Bus pilot
- Electric school buses for Western Australia: Feasibility study
- Charging requirements for Melbourne’s electric bus fleet
Auckland Transport launches major new campaign platform ‘Mix Your Go’
Rounding out a big transport news week from New Zealand is this campaign to have Aucklanders look to mix-up their transport modes, including electric buses and trains, bikes, walking, scooters, ride share and taxis.
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