ITS Monday: Edition 15, 2022
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
It’s been a few weeks since the last issue, what with all the long weekends these past couple of weeks, so this week is a bumper edition!
Included this week, road use charging, low emission strategy, walkability, a hydrogen-powered ferry for Queensland, and more.
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
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 …
Congestion tax in the mix for Sydney CBD, secret document reveals
Could it be that this is being seriously looked at? Perhaps not, as NSW Premier Perrottet has since said, “There is no plan for a congestion tax and and we can rule it out completely.”
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Time for Sydney to embrace congestion charging
And on the very same topic as in our first curated story this week, the Grattan Institute’s Marion Terrill weighs in with a strong opinion piece.
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“Australia has no clear strategy to decarbonise transport. That’s a problem, because without a plan, our take-up of clean technologies like electric cars, trucks and buses is slow. It’s stopping us from meeting our climate commitments. And it leaves us paying exorbitant prices for imported oil at the fuel pump, as well as in the cost of groceries and services.” A strong opening in this piece from The Conversation, authored by Jake Whitehead, Bjorn Sturmberg. Donna Green, Emma Rachel Whittlesea, and Liz Hanna..
This article stems from work on an iMOVE project, Developing a low/zero emission transport strategy for Australia.
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Australian cities out-of-step on walkability, transport: study
“Led by RMIT University, The Lancet Global Health study assessed the lived experience against urban design, transport and health policies in 25 cities globally.” Australian cities Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide are included in the study of 25 cities worldwide. Links to the reports and scorecard are at the bottom of this article.
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The politics of opposition to cycleways
This is from New Zealand, and is written by mickysavage, a pseudonym apparently, used by “Greg Presland, Chair of the Labour Party’s Auckland-Northland Regional Council, a West Auckland lawyer, a member of the Waitakere Ranges local board and a former Waitakere City councillor.”
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Thousands of EV chargers to be installed across regional NSW
“More than 3000 electric vehicle chargers will be installed across NSW under a multimillion-dollar plan by the state government to boost regional tourism. A $20 million grant program will be made available to regional councils to apply for cash to install electric vehicle chargers across motels, wineries, natural attractions and museums.”
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Hydrogen to power new Gladstone ferry
The Queensland Government press release announcing the funding for SeaLink to design, construct and use a passenger ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cells, to operate as a shuttle between Gladstone and LNG facilities on Curtis Island.
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How Bogotá’s cycling superhighway shaped a generation
“It created a generation that has looked at the street from a completely different perspective,” says Jaime Ortiz, an architect and one of the original founders of Ciclovía.
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The 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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