ITS Monday: Edition 2, 2020
This week’s small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Now, scroll down, and see what’s in this week’s edition. Oh, and before I go, be sure check out the quickest way to receive our new content via the subscription box just below …
Luminar unveils Hydra, a lidar sensor sold on subscription
We’ve all read of subscription in relation to transport in the area of a new business model for the use of transport, but here’s a company offering subscriptions for sensors to the automotive industry.
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How trains are helping Australia rethink cities
‘Sydney is not going to be a car city any more, it will be a train city.’ That is the transport headline-grabbing quote in this article, along with an assessment of what’s happening in cities across Australia in the area(s) of trams / light rail / trackless trams / actual old-school trains. The article is from the Australian Financial Review, so hopefully you can manoeuvre to it through the paywall.
The Future of the Last-Mile Ecosystem
‘Growing demand for e-commerce delivery will result in 36% more delivery vehicles in inner cities by 2030, leading to a rise in both emissions and traffic congestion without effective intervention.’ That’s the lead-in of this 26-page report from the World Economic Forum. The full report is downloadable from the link below.
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
The Netherlands is feted as a place in which the bicycle has been smartly, and safely, given an elevated status on the nation’s roads. But it certainly wasn’t always the case! This article looks at what was the state of play until the early 1970s, and the people-led / politician-followed changes that were put in place.
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Feds Are Content to Let Cars Drive, and Regulate, Themselves
America: The land of the free to test automated cars as the car makers and system developers see fit? Details of the Trump administration working across 38 federal agencies in an attempt to unify the USA’s approach to self-driving vehicles.
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Convoy Says AI Now Fully Runs Its Load-Matching and Brokering
‘Last month, Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy said it has achieved 100% automation of the load-brokering process, adding automated load pricing to the automated load-matching service it announced in February 2019.’ This article also addresses the affect this advance will have upon the workforce.
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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