ITS Monday: Edition 27, 2021
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, innovative urban transport, safer streets, HD maps, e-buses, and encouraging use of active transport to continue post-COVID world.
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 …
Innovative responses to urban transportation: current practice in Australian cities
A new report from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). Here’s the description: ‘This research explores how Australian urban transport programs and policies are responding to changes in transport technology, travel patterns, environmental imperatives and spatial development dynamics in order to offer guidance about future directions and options, and seeks to identify potential policy directions for Australia’s cities and policy arrangements.’ The report is a downloadable PDF from this link.
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Swarm intelligence for automated driving
A press release from the boffins at Bosch. It tells of how drivers of the Volkswagon Golf 8 will collect and provide real-time information from their vehicle’s radar and video sensors, as well as vehicle motion data, for Bosch’s high resolution maps.
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A new metric for designing safer streets
Research from the University of Pennsylvania, in which it is shown how biometric data can help city planners more proactively design and evaluate the safety of urban infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians.
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Aussie E-Bus, battery boost via AUD$110 million capital raise
There’s been quite a bit of news lately in Australia of things electric bus, and here’s the first of two stories this week. An Australian clean tech investor, True Green, has been funded to the level of 110 million dollarydoos to hasten its development of e-buses and electric battery testing in, and for, Australia.
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ADL-Nexport partnership in Aussie E-Bus supply deal
E-Bus story number two, and Nexport story number two. This one is about a partnership with Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), seeing the import of bodies from the ADL Enviro family, and putting them on Chinese company BYD’s chassis, for assembly and sale by Nexport in the Australian market.
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People are choosing active transportation post-COVID. Are we doing enough to keep them safe?
A Linkedin article from Cubic Transportation’s Jeff Price. Our regular modes of transport have in some instances dramatically decreased in times of COVID, and more people are walking, cycling, electric skateboarding and the like. Bust as things move toward whatever the new transport normal is, will these new mobility modes continue to see healthy use? And if feelings of decreased safety are stopping people moving these new ways, how might we help them feel, and be, safer?
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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