ITS Monday: Edition 17 2026

Experts spent years trying to change the way people travel. The fuel crisis did it in less than a month

“A national report from Monash University found that 45 per cent of Australians had changed their travel behaviour since the onset of the international crisis in March, when petrol prices spiked dramatically following the start of the war in the Middle East and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in late February.”

Related iMOVE articles:

• FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
• Sustainable Transportation: Info, Projects & Resources

Related iMOVE projects:

• Policy paths encouraging behaviour shift for sustainable mobility
• Active transport and travel demand in Brisbane

Australia needs thousands more kerbside EV chargers. Here’s how to roll them out fast and fairly

This from The Conversation, written by Bjorn Sturmberg, Senior Research Fellow, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW. “Electric vehicles (EVs) are no longer a niche technology. Australians are buying them in growing numbers as petrol prices bite and the federal government continues its tax exemption until 2029.

The challenge now is to build the supporting charging infrastructure.”

Related iMOVE article:

• Electric Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
• The Conductor Series: The electrification of transport

Related iMOVE projects:

• Enabling accessible electric vehicle charging
• Leading the charge in bi-directional charging
• Utrecht to Australia: Unlocking scalable, low-cost V2G
• Being a V2G trailblazer: Lessons for mass market adoption

Impact of Induced Demand on Benefits: A ‘Think-Piece’ for the Department for Transport Transport Appraisal and Strategic Modelling Division

The link here is a direct download to ths paper, written by Phil Goodwin, Emeritus Professor of Transport Policy, University College London and University of the West of England.

“The report includes results of analysis of traffic reduction from demand management measures, active travel and public transport (where it is often a welcome development rather than a problem). It recommends some significant changes, notably in the untenable assumption that there is no induced traffic of commercial vehicles, and the incomplete ex post evaluation of induced traffic from previous projects, eg in POPE, on which I propose a new research programme.

I am very grateful for the support of a technical reference group of DfT and NH officials, consultants, and academics who constructively discussed and commented on several drafts of the Report. Neither they nor their organisations necessarily endorse any judgments or advice, and any mistakes are my responsibility. A summary of the work will be presented at the Modelling World conference in June, and the UTSG conference in July.”

World’s first native color LiDAR gives machines human-like vision

“For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, industrial robots, and inspection drones – build precise 3D maps of their surroundings, but everything is built of monochrome geometric shapes. Ouster’s new Rev8 sensor family aims to change that, not by bolting a camera onto a LiDAR unit, but by fusing color directly into every point of data the sensor captures.”