ITS Monday: Edition 28, 2023
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, elastic cities, road user charging. Melbourne bus woes solutions, blended-wing lanes, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Transportist: The City Elastic
- Road User Charging – Is the technology there yet?
- The unsexy solution to smashing Melbourne’s traffic congestion woes
- Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25% on local train services
- How electric car tech could lower home power prices
- ‘Game-changing’: Sleek blended-wing body plane aims to reduce emissions
And just in case you hadn’t caught it yet, we have a recent 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!
NEW THIS WEEK: All things Equity in Transportation
This week’s articles
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Transportist: The City Elastic
David Levinson‘s latest Transportist blog, discussing how “… cities can stretch, refactor themselves, adapt, and flex to changes in the needs of their residents, workers, and users.” Cities in general are the focus, but one passage hones in on Sydney and its history.
Related iMOVE content: The 30-minute city: Small decisions for big gains
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Road User Charging – Is the technology there yet?
This article is via LinkedIn, and written by Jorgen Pedersen, Sector Director, Transport Technologies at Systra. “The thinking around road user charging, distance-based payments, and even mileage rationing is ever widening with new concepts and suggestions being aired and brought forward every other week. Yet, there are already many solutions in place throughout the world which promote modal shift, reduce traffic, and improve air quality.”
Related iMOVE content: Traffic Congestion: Info, Projects & Resources
The unsexy solution to smashing Melbourne’s traffic congestion woes
This article is based on a new report from the Committee for Melbourne. The report “… details how Melburnians shun slow, indirect, infrequent and unreliable buses, and calls on the state government to replace a tangle of overlapping routes with a core network that runs every 10 minutes. More dedicated bus lanes could improve speed and reliability.”
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Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25% on local train services
“The €49 a month ‘Deutschlandticket’ has led to a 25 per cent rise in passengers on national railway company Deutsche Bahn’s regional services”. The article does go on to say that, in the “just under three months that we have now had the Deutschlandticket are not yet enough to paint an accurate picture.”
Related iMOVE content: Mobility as a Service
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How electric car tech could lower home power prices
“The technology, dubbed vehicle-to-X, could see the powerful batteries inside electric cars used to store cheap or renewable electricity and feed it back into homes, buildings, appliances or the grid during peak demand.”
Related iMOVE content: Electric vehicles: Supporting uptake, investigating smart charging | FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
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‘Game-changing’: Sleek blended-wing body plane aims to reduce emissions
“The US Air Force has promised millions of dollars to help start-up manufacturer JetZero build a jet with a blended-wing body that officials say could provide greater range and efficiency for military tankers and cargo planes and perhaps eventually be used to carry airline passengers.”
Related iMOVE content: Sustainable Aviation Fuel
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