ITS Monday: Edition 11, 2024
Yes, it’s Easter Monday and Australia is mostly not at its desk today, but we’ve pulled together a mini version of ITS Monday for those that check their email today. 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, big EV iincrease, QLD’s EV milestone, battery alternatives, Inland Rail and more.
The article headlines below are:
- EV uptake in Sydney’s outer western suburbs has jumped nearly 50 pct in six months
- Qfleet plugs in 1000th EV
- We rely heavily on lithium batteries – but there’s a growing array of alternatives
- The Great Synchronisation and The Great Asynchronisation
- Are Cities Intelligent?
- Local communities get workforce ready for Inland Rail
And just in case you hadn’t caught it yet, we have a recent series of interviews with transport professionals – Effects of COVID on the transport sector – what they see now, what they would like to happen post-pandemic, and what they think will happen. If you’d like to be join this conversation, drop us a line!
This week’s articles
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EV uptake in Sydney’s outer western suburbs has jumped nearly 50 pct in six months
The headline says it all in this article driven by figures and quotes from electricity provider Endeavour Energy, along with EV reistration stats.
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Staying on the topic of electric vehicles, “Queensland Government’s fleet service, QFleet, has taken delivery of its 1000th electric vehicle after announcing last year it plans on purchasing 3,000 EVs by 2026.”
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We rely heavily on lithium batteries – but there’s a growing array of alternatives
An article from the BBC website, which flits around the world and does include some Australia-related work in the area, and quotes from a Deakin University academic.
“The global demand for batteries is surging as the world looks to rapidly electrify vehicles and store renewable energy. Lithium ion batteries, which are typically used in EVs, are difficult to recycle and require huge amounts of energy and water to extract. Companies are frantically looking for more sustainable alternatives that can help power the world’s transition to green energy.”
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The Great Synchronisation and The Great Asynchronisation
Professor David Levinson‘s latest Transportist blog. “Mass transit, like mass everything, requires scale, many people going from origin X to destination Y at time T. If we have a high enough frequency of service, and high enough demand, then coordination of T matters less, (and in fact, less peaking is probably an easier service to provide in many ways) though coordination across space remains important. But once people no longer travel to the same places in the same numbers, fixed route transit begins its slide down transit’s doom loop, the vicious cycle wherein service cutbacks reduce demand, lower demand reduces revenue, and lower revenue leads to further service cutbacks.”
READ THE ARTICLEProfessor Levinson has been busy on the blog this week with this second piece published. “One could argue that the idea of the city is a meme, and of course each city has its own memes, that invade people’s minds and co-opt their behaviour to serve its ends. The meme itself is not conscious, we suppose.”
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Local communities get workforce ready for Inland Rail
“Inland Rail is hosting two free events in Wagga Wagga and Albury in April for local businesses to find out how to get their workforce ready for potential future opportunities in the Inland Rail supply chain.”
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READ THE ARTICLEWe used to send out a weekly newsletter, ITS Weekly Roundup, a collection of ITS- and mobility-related news from across the world. ITS Monday is a replacement for that, a collection of links to news and opinion pieces, academic papers, and more. Additionally, you can follow us on Linkedin and Twitter, both of which have a focus on iMOVE news and projects, or subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter.
*Inclusion in ITS Monday does not equal iMOVE endorsement. It’s more aimed at discovery, thought, or discussion … or all of those and more. And while for the most part I expect content to be current, a little age doesn’t mean diminished interest.
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