ITS Monday: Edition 20, 2022
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, numerous thoughts on car-free cities, COVID and transport, AI traffic controls, hydrogen vehicles, 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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The big idea: should cars be banned from cities?
There’s a few stories on this topic this week. This first article is from the UK edition of The Guardian, and is written by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet, authors of Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives. “Streets have been optimised for one thing: traffic. A kind of ‘urban rewilding’ could return them to the complex social ecosystems they once were.”
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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One
This article also emanates from the UK, this time from the UK edition of Wired. “Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?”
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New designs show a car-free Golden Mile in Wellington
Story number three about car-free cities is a little closer to home, a tale of an information on the plan to pedestrianise central Wellington, New Zealand. Consultations have been had, amendments made, artist images depicted, all awaiting feedback on this latest set of thoughts and designs.
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A new paper, from a group of academics from University College London. “This paper attempts to shed light on: a) how the transport planning priorities changed during the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020/2021, and b) how the planning phases of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) framework can be strengthened to support a more resilient emergency planning environment.”
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AI-based traffic control gets the green light
“… extra cameras, vehicle and pedestrian sensors, LiDAR and radar on the intersection, but these tools are all part of a larger system, with researchers hoping that a 2.5km section of Nicholson Street, in Carlton, will eventually be run by an artificial intelligence (AI).”
READ THE ARTICLESouthern Hemisphere’s first converted electric double-decker begins Auckland trial
We return to NZ for this article. “Trials in Auckland begin this week for the first double-decker commuter bus in the Southern Hemisphere to be converted from diesel to electric.”
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Hydrogen car sales predicted to take off, pushing EVs, as Auckland trial begins
Predicted is the key word here in this story from New Zealand, with the (global) numbers mentioned in the article taken from a new report by UK-based Juniper Research. The article then takes up the status of trials, fuel infrastructure and more in New Zealand itself.
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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