ITS Monday: Edition 33, 2020
This week’s small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
This week it’s again a strong focus on active transport.
Included this week: Sydney pop-ups, cycling fallacies bingo, a 40 km CAV corridor, a public space concept in Thailand, 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!
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Sydney’s new pop-up cycleways help you ride to work
An update from Transport for NSW about its program of building pop-up cycleways. What has been completed, what is slated, along with a downloadable map. Along with what’s planned, there’s more to happen in this area: ‘Transport for NSW continues to work with other councils to deliver more pop-up cycleways across Greater Sydney and regional areas.’
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Don’t be fooled by common myths about cycling – use these explanations to help spread the truth!
This is another of those pieces I’m not sure if I’ve shared here before on ITS Monday (all conveniently compiled here for you), but no matter, it’s a good enough resource to be repeated! The title of this web page really does tell the story of what’s here. Amusingly, there’s also a downloadable Bingo sheet, because ‘If you’ve ever attended a public meeting discussing cycling, or if you’ve ever heard a radio phone-in show cover cycling, then you’ll know the frustration of local politicians or members of the public repeating one of the many fallacies on this site.’
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Electric scooter rental scheme to hit Canberra streets next month
News from e-scooterland in our nation’s capital. The approved providers in this new share scheme are Beam Mobility and Neuron Mobility, each of whom has a permit for the provision of up to 750 e-scooters each.
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Readiness for shared micromobility: Public perceptions in Metro Vancouver
Leaving Australia, but staying with micromobility, we shift to Canada. Here’s a description of, and update on, a project that ‘… aims to explore public perceptions of shared micromobility in Metro Vancouver, to understand the potential for adoption and integration with regional transit and inform policy, infrastructure needs and best practices for regulation.’
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‘Road of the future’ to link Detroit and Ann Arbor with 40 miles of driverless cars and shuttles
This news has appeared in our ITS News Roundup on Friday, but I think it’s important, and am including here in case you missed it. It’s a plan is being led by an infrastructure startup called Cavnue, with support from Ford, GM and Waymo.
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LANDPROCESS completes asia’s largest urban rooftop farm in Thailand
And last, another article that could be considered a little out-of-left-field for what I normally curate here. but I think it fits. It’s a concept only (so the title of the article is a little misleading), of ‘repurposing a massive 236,806 ft2 of previously unused space, the project marks Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm. combining the tradition of rice terraces with modern green roof strategies, the team has turned a once neglected area into a lush public place for sustainable food production.’ Like it? Spark any ideas?
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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