ITS Monday: Edition 37, 2025
ITS Monday is a small, weekly collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, Australia’s increasing EV uptake, micromobility charging system, 30k/ph speed limits, electric trucks, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Banning combustion engine cars by 2035 will be necessary to get Australia moving on electric vehicles
- OneDock: The Universal Micromobility Charging Solution
- 30kph residential speed limit improves safety with little effect on travel times
- Feedback sought to shape how roads and streets are managed across NSW
- Electric Trucks Are Rapidly Approaching A Tipping Point — Just Not In The US
- Unifying expert knowledge and field data toward an enhanced scenario description for CAV certification: a comprehensive scenario-based approach
- Making Melbourne’s tram stops more sustainable
This week’s articles
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Professor Hussein Dia in The Conversation. “Australia’s sluggish electric vehicle transition has begun to accelerate. In the first half of the year, more than 72,000 battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold. That’s about 12% of all new cars, up almost a quarter over the same period in 2024.
Despite this momentum, progress is still too slow. EVs now dominate in countries such as Norway (98.3% of new cars), Nepal (76%) and China (51%). Australia is lagging.”
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Charging Stack: Interview with OneDock’s Al Reid
A 45-minute video interview with Al Reid, CEO of MicroFleet, about his OneDock universal micromobility charging solution
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- OneDock: Supercharging e-micromobility
- The OneDock universal micromobility locking & charging station
- All About iMOVE’s Impact Extension Program
30kph residential speed limit improves safety with little effect on travel times
“Reducing residential speed limits from 50 kilometres per hour to 30kph would significantly boost bicycle riding safety without majorly affecting car trip times, a study has found. The findings come as Victoria enacts a new speed limit law allowing local councils to propose 30kph limits in school zones and local streets.” And here’s a link to the actual academic paper: Modelling the impact of lower speed limits on residential streets for cyclist level of traffic stress and car travel time in Greater Melbourne. Co-authors are Afshin Jafari, Steve Pemberton, Sapan Tiwari, Tayebeh Saghapour, Nikhil Chand, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, and Billie Giles-Corti.
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Feedback sought to shape how roads and streets are managed across NSW
A media release from Transport for NSW. “Transport for NSW is leading a once-in-a-generation review of the Roads Act 1993 and is seeking input from councils, community members, peak bodies and industry experts about how the legislation should be reformed.
The aim is to create a more modern, flexible and easy-to-use law that can help enable NSW Government initiatives such as housing targets and making the state more liveable and vibrant.”
Electric Trucks Are Rapidly Approaching A Tipping Point — Just Not In The US
“A report out this week from BloombergNEF claims that demand for medium and heavy trucks with zero tailpipe emissions is growing quickly. Technology development, infrastructure expansion, and policy actions mean electric trucks are already cost competitive in some countries and use cases. As the market expands, and both manufacturers and operators gain more experience, some of the risks holding back wider adoption are being addressed.”
Related iMOVE projects:
- Powering the future of freight: Electric trailers and dollies
- Urban freight shifts: Analysis of current trends & uncertain future
A new academic paper, co-authored by Hugues Blache, Pierre-Antoine Laharotte, Nour-Eddin El Faouzi, and Nicolas Saunier.
The abstract:
With the emergence of studies on automated vehicles, the rapid development of new systems raises questions about road safety certification. Numerous methods have been developed to address this, such as Distance-Based and Scenario-Based approaches. The latter offers a time-saving advantage by avoiding redundant testing and focusing on traffic situations that pose risks to the system.
However, scenarios can vary in levels of abstraction depending on the system’s design. Many studies attempt to identify safety criteria using indicators based on real-world scenarios, but perform at a low level of abstraction for the scenario description. Only a little draws analysis at the primary, i.e., abstract, level. Consequently, the qualification of abstract scenarios concerning safety indicators remains difficult and extremely dependent on field observations without harmonization.
No link is clearly established yet between the abstract description of the experienced situation and indicators resulting from field observations. In a generic sense, abstract levels are managed at the expert level. This study establishes a rare connection between concrete (low abstraction level) and functional (high abstraction level) scenarios to compute the criticality of traffic scenarios using UAV data. Our approach develops the methodology to unify expert knowledge (top-down approach) with field observations (bottom-up approach).
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Making Melbourne’s tram stops more sustainable
“Melbourne’s tram stop platforms could soon be made from recycled plastic materials, potentially making them more sustainable, more accessible for people with disabilities, and easier to maintain.
Yarra Trams has partnered with the Monash Institute of Railway Technology (Monash IRT), and various industry groups (Pact Group, GT Recycling, DKSH Australia and Integrated Recycling) to research, design and develop recycled plastic modular components that may be used to progressively replace tram stop platforms across Melbourne.”
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- See Me: Transforming passenger experience on public transport
- Accessibility guidelines for CAVs in public transport
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