ITS Monday: Edition 34, 2021
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, safe and legal micromobility, new Qld public transport vehicles, greener supply chain, 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
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 …
Mobility equality: Scooting around the edges
This article is from Honi Soit, a publication of of the University of Sydney, so it has a NSW focus. But the story could be focused on any Australian city or town. E-Scooters are here, but they are here in a decidedly greay space, with questions of their legality and safety of use still very much unresolved.
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Final Brisbane Metro vehicle design revealed ahead of 2022 pilot launch
A reveal of the final design for the first of 60 articulated and electric buses underpinning the Brisbane City Council’s $1.2 billion high-frequency transport program. The pilot vehicle will be tested in Switzerland this year, before arriving in Brisbane for local testing in 2022.
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Australian-built electric buses to run on sunlight in Queensland
More Queensland public transport news, this time 16 new electric buses will be built in the Bustech workshop on the Gold Coast, the fleet to be charged by 100% renewable energy. The first completed bus is set to be completed and in service within the next year.
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Uber and public transport interaction: An analysis of empirical evidence
I may have already posted this one recently. Apologies if I did, but it does bear reading. ‘In a new research collaboration with the Smart Public Transport Lab at TU Delft, we study this topic by looking at empirical data on Uber trips and overlaying public transport trip data on top. We focus on three European and three American cities in October 2018 — Amsterdam, Warsaw, Stockholm, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Houston.’
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Index leads $12.2M seed in Sourceful, a data play to make supply chains greener
‘Supply chains can be a complex logistical challenge. But they pose an even greater environmental challenge. And it’s that latter problem — global supply-chain sustainability — where U.K. startup Sourceful is fully focused, although it argues its approach can boost efficiency as well as shrink environmental impact.’
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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