ITS Monday: Edition 5, 2022
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, zero emission bus planning, e-scooter safety, more more for cycleways and footpaths, and a drive for free parking.
And just in case you hadn’t caught it yet, we have a new 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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Tendering zero emissions bus contracts with large mammals in the room
Another article form the University of Sydney’s Thinking outside the box series. In this the university’s Professor David Hensher and David Ashmore, a Senior Associate at TSA Management, consider the implications of fleets adding zero emissions buses to large-scale bus franchising and tendering arrangements. WARNING: Contains mentions of both gorillas and elephants.
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Battle for footpaths drives increase in injuries linked to e-scooters
In last week’s ITS Monday we included an article looking at injury data 12 months in on Brisbane’s share e-scooter. It was I think an important story as Brisbane has been a leader in getting this mode on the streets. Contrast to (parts of) Melbourne, where an e-scooter trial is only two weeks or so old. There have been some incidents, and, external to the trial areas, a fatality.
Anecdotally in my part of Melbourne I am seeing quite an amount of illegal riding. Is it simply excitement about the new mode? Is it carelessness? How can education on safe riding achieve more penetration? I’m a fan of the mode, but I’d like to see more safety in its use – where they are ridden, how they are ridden, riders knowing about age and power limits, the use of helmets, … This article, and indeed my comments here, might spark some debate, but the most important thing going forward are moves to make the mode safer. And to stress again, this Melbourne trial is only two weeks old. Things can I hope settle down, and improve.
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Rob Stokes aims for doubling in spending on cycleways, footpaths
New South Wales’ new Active Transport Minister Rob Stokes is aspiring to double the $950 million in spending the state government has promised for footpaths, cycleways and other links over the next five years, after conceding that existing funding is insufficient.
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Free parking to drive business in Brisbane’s CBD
There’s a growing commentary around getting workers back into cities, in counterpoint to the idea that working from home has been something of a success, both in proving that people and businesses can be work this way, and in reducing congestion. Here we have a proposal from the Brisbane Lord Mayor for upping the number of workers back into the city.
READ THE ARTICLEThe idea behind ITS Monday was in part driven by our ITS Weekly Roundup, an email newsletter we send each Friday (subscribe to that here, plus/or our monthly iMOVE newsletter!). That newsletter contains a substantial number of links, and sometimes I think interesting content could be lost in the mix. I also see quite a lot of interesting content on social media (yes, you can follow us on Linkedin and Twitter). So every week I’ll collect a few things, and put them in ITS Monday.
*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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