ITS Monday: Edition 16, 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, driver distraction and road rules, (safer) cycling success, e-scooter safety, the rise in vehicle ownership, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Consequences for land transport of COVID 19 and Work from Home
- Electric aeroplanes are already in our skies, so when will they become the norm?
- British AI startup raises more than $1 billion for its self-driving car technology
- E for equity? E-scooter and e-bike schemes can help people on low incomes and with disabilities
- On your bike, take a hike: paths get $100m budget boost
- Auckland Council receives ideas for trackless trams, urban cable car, to resolve transport issues
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
Now, scroll down, and see what’s in this week’s edition. Oh, and before you do, be sure check out the quickest way to receive our new content via the subscription box just below …
Consequences for land transport of COVID 19 and Work from Home
At the link is an embedded video of Professor David Hensher‘s recent presentation to the Economic Society of Australia. I’d add that I recommend you skip the first 2 minutes and 50 seconds,
“As COVID-19 slowly dissipated, working from home (WFH) continues to be popular, with support from notable numbers of employees and employers. With growing evidence that we have either reached, or appear to be close to, a level of WFH to some extent that might be described as an equilibrium outcome going forward, we need to update any travel behaviour response models that have been developed during the passage of the pandemic. This talk sets out a commuter model for each day of the week for the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area as of September 2022 where the alternative responses are to not work, WFH, or commute by one of ten modes available. Given the probability of WFH obtained from a mixed logit model, we construct a mapping equation to establish the sources of statistical variance by origin and destination location that influence the incidence of WFH.”
Related iMOVE article:
- Working from Home: Info, Projects & Resources
- Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence
Electric aeroplanes are already in our skies, so when will they become the norm?
A story from the ABC News website. “Experts say there is a range of energy sources outside of conventional jet fuels that can be used to power planes, and we are likely to see these aircraft flying commercially as soon as next year. So just like electric vehicles, are electric aircraft the way of the future?”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Alternative Fuels Info, Projects & Resources
- FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
- Emma Whittlesea: Flying toward Net Zero
Related iMOVE projects:
- Simulation and modelling of a hydrogen-electric aircraft
- Experiments on consumer preferences for sustainable airlines
British AI startup raises more than $1 billion for its self-driving car technology
A story from the ABC News website. “Experts say there is a range of energy sources outside of conventional jet fuels that can be used to power planes, and we are likely to see these aircraft flying commercially as soon as next year. So just like electric vehicles, are electric aircraft the way of the future?”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Autonomous Driving:Info, Projects & Resources
- Autonomous Driving Technology
- Connected Vehicles:s Info, Projects & Resources
Related iMOVE projects:
- Safely deploying automated vehicles on Australian roads
- C-ITS national harmonisation and pre-deployment research
- Environmental impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles
E for equity? E-scooter and e-bike schemes can help people on low incomes and with disabilities
From the Monash University website, and authored by Alexa Delbosc, Associate Professor, at the university’s Department of Civil Engineering. “Public perceptions of shared micromobility programs are extremely mixed. Some people still think of these small electric personal vehicles as a passing fad. Or, worse, they see them as a source of transport system disruption, public space anarchy, and traffic injury.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Micromobilty: Info, Projects & Resources
- Active Transporty: Info, Projects & Resources
- Equity in Transportation
Related iMOVE projects:
- OneDock: Supercharging e-micromobility
- Role of heterogeneity in active travellers’ injury severity analysis
On your bike, take a hike: paths get $100m budget boost
“Walking and cycling paths will get a $100 million boost in the upcoming federal budget, in the biggest national active transport investment in more than a decade. Federal Transport Minister Catherine King announced the investment on Tuesday, with the government to create an Active Transport Fund for infrastructure in urban and regional areas.”
Related iMOVE projects:
- Evaluation of the Wagga Wagga Active Travel Plan
- Your Street, Your Say: Better streets for Darebin/a>
- The TRavel, Environment and Kids (TREK) Study: 15 years on
- Modelling cycling investments in regional areas
Auckland Council receives ideas for trackless trams, urban cable car, to resolve transport issues
“Auckland Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee received two novel public submissions on Thursday which could dramatically change how people commute in the city. One is for a cable car to run from Botany to Auckland Airport and the other is for trackless trams. Both ideas seem to be pretty out there, especially as the light rail plan isn’t going ahead.”
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