ITS Monday: Edition 1, 2022
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas. Our first edition for 2022, and our 94th overall.
Included this week, Sydney and share cars, safe cycling, working from home, urban design and health, electric ships, 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
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Do you really need your own private vehicle? Five lessons from a year using a car-sharing app
A tale from Shelley Hepworth, and her 12 months using the car-sharing app GoGet in Sydney.
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3 in 4 people want to ride a bike but are put off by lack of safe lanes
Lauren Pearson and Ben Beck, both of Monash University, have penned this article for The Conversation, stemming from a paper written for the Journal for Transport and Health,
READ THE ARTICLEWalking to work from home: Can we reframe Working from Home as a potential boon for active travel?
From the University of Sydney Business School’s ‘Thinking outside the box’ series, this one by Matthew J Beck. It looks at “how active travel can be incentivised and reintroduced into the work from home environment in order to counter the effects of increased sedentary behaviour.”
READ THE ARTICLETwo-way street: How Barcelona is democratising public space
In Barcelona, “1.6 million people live crammed into a small space between the sea and the mountains, bound to the north and south by rivers, and overspilling into satellite towns that take the metropolitan population to around 5 million. There is almost no breathing space.” But now moves are afoot to bring about changes to the city that were first mooted in the early 1900s.
READ THE ARTICLEA second article this week from The Conversation, this one by Jordan Lacey, of RMIT University. “Typically, when we think of a city we jump straight to thinking about its buildings, roads, shops and parklands: the physical things we are surrounded by. But what about all those invisible things in between?”
READ THE ARTICLEHow micromobility affects the climate
Research from Sweden, demonstrating that shared micromobility solutions in Zurich emit more CO2 emissions than the alternatives they replace. Key in this is the differences between behaviour stemming from private ownership versus shared e-scooters and e-bikes.
READ THE ARTICLEOur final story this week is from New Zealand, and tells of the introduction of electric ferries, ships, and boats into the country’s marine transport options.
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