ITS Monday: Edition 31, 2023

Fantasy Modeling

Professor David Levinson‘s latest Transportist blog. “It is believed that effective planning requires accurate and reliable computerised transport models (UTPS or “four-step” models in the US, “Strategic Transport Models” in Australia), which serve as tools to predict and analyse the impacts of various transport policies and investments. The models however are a fantasy.”

La Trobe University Autonobus trial

A short video showcasing the work being done on our 5G aid in automated mobility for elderly and people with disability project with La Trobe University and HMI Technologies.

Related iMOVE content: Equity in Transportation

Using System Dynamics Approach to Explore the Mode Shift between Automated Vehicles, Conventional Vehicles, and Public Transport in Melbourne, Australia

A new academic paper, co-authored by Yilun Chen, Peter Stasinopoulos, Nirajan Shiwakoti, and Shah Khalid Khan. “If we want to manage future road networks to meet the demands of automated vehicle trips due to the shift from public transport and conventional vehicle trips, we need to understand how AV trips change over time due to a range of reasons, such as policy implementation, AV cost, and psychological factors.”

Related iMOVE content: Autonomous Driving Info, Projects & Resources and Autonomous Driving Technology

Analysis of Australian public acceptance of fully automated vehicles by extending technology acceptance model

Another academic paper, from quite a few of the authors in the paper above, this time the co-authors are Yilun Chen, Shah Khalid Khan, Nirajan Shiwakoti, Peter Stasinopoulos, and Kayvan Aghabayk. This study investigates 800 Australian responses to fully automated vehicle adoption.

The congestion-busting change that would transform school pick-ups

“Australian cities hadn’t been set up for active transport like walking or cycling, but policy change could lead to behavioural change, especially for people within a 10-kilometre radius of Melbourne. “We’re in a perfect position to be able to do that and yet, we prioritise the car.””

Related iMOVE content: Active Transport and Traffic Congestion Info, Projects & Resources

Value creation through physical and virtual agglomeration

“David Hensher, Glen Weisbrod (EBP USA) and (our very own) Ian Christensen discuss how the value creation perspective seems to have merit across physical and virtual agglomeration and why we need research to identify the probability that physical or virtual agglomeration can deliver on value creation for specific activities.”

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Cohda’s CV2X technology gets green light in Europe

“The MK6 connected-vehicle solution from (iMOVE partner) Cohda Wireless has achieved CE (Conformite Europeenne) certification in Europe, paving the way for its implementation in a region that is making significant progress in the rollout of intelligent transport systems. This follows its earlier RER (Radio Equipment Regulation) certification in the UK.”

Related iMOVE project: Development and use of cooperative perception for CAVs

The future of cities: don’t write off New York just yet

““New York skyscrapers sit empty as Manhattan reels from rise of home working”, says the Telegraph: “staff in their twenties and thirties are driving an exodus of white-collar workers”. Does this indicate a permanent shift in human behaviour?”

Here’s how to transform urban areas: Lessons from a ‘city shaper’

“Auckland is struggling to deal with the legacy of decades of car-centred development, but it is not alone in that and can learn from other cities, a UK city shaper says.”

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How long can Australia wait to introduce new car pollution limits?

“Widespread support for changes to limit vehicle emissions emerged from the federal government’s consultation into a fuel-efficiency standard, with most of almost 1200 responses supporting new laws. But that is where agreement fractures. Electric car brands, renewable energy firms and environmental groups say Australia needs to introduce laws swiftly or risks being left behind other nations, and aim to match overseas progress by 2030 and ban emission loopholes.”

Related iMOVE content: FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy and Electric Vehicles

Do new cycling facilities generate new cycling demand?

“I have a ‘thing’ about induced demand, generated traffic. I generally find that it is misunderstood, accidentally or purposefully, by both proponents and opponents of road expansion.”

Related iMOVE project: Safer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers

Fulham cargo bikes “ten times quicker than a van”

“By using electric cargo bikes instead of delivery vans, the handyman company is able to deliver carpentry, tiling and plumbing services while cutting travel time, costs and air pollution.”

Want scooters to get off of sidewalks? Here’s what we’ve learned about pavement riding from one Superpedestrian city

Since November 2022 e-scooter provider Superpedestrian has been collecting data on rider behaviour in Nottingham UK, in particular relating to the vexatious issue of users riding scooters on footpaths.

Green power reducing Gold Coast Light Rail carbon

“Electricity consumption on Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 3 works has dropped 23 per cent, thanks to efforts to reduce the project’s carbon footprint. A host of sustainability initiatives are being employed to get the result including the use of electric vehicles, green energy, biofuels, technology, solar-powered tower lights and active workforce travel incentives.”

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