ITS Monday: Edition 7, 2020
This week’s small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Stories on: Principles for new urban mobility, the trickiness of multimodal MaaS, dataviz of bicycle use in Melbourne, a map of the entire US food supply chain, and survey results about the effects to local business of encouraging the use of active transport.
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 …
Building for a New Urban Mobility
From the Centre for London, a politically independent think tank. This article posits 10 principles (emerging from research and practice) for a policy-led approach that employ ‘the harnessing of technology to enable active travel, public transport use, the cleanest vehicle technology and minimal use of private cars.’
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Multimodal MaaS – Still a Long Journey
An opinion piece from Oliver O’Brien, on the struggle with the provider/regulator split, and the tendency to want to try and run a one-stop, closed shop, rather than true multi-modal, multi-operator apps/services. The situation he is particularly referencing is London, with mentions of the USA. But the concerns are, I think, universal.
O’Brien, by the way, was the dataviz architect of the excellent London Tube Heartbeat.
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a little while. Since 2015 VicRoads have been using sensors to count the use of bicycles in Melbourne. The data is represented across a 7-page Microsoft Power BI data visualisation tools document. The good stuff is on pages 3–7.
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We mapped how food gets from farms to your home
A ‘comprehensive snapshot of all food flows between counties in the USA — grains, fruits and vegetables, animal feed, and processed food items.’ Where it comes from, where the food hubs are, and how it travels from place to place.
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Healthy Streets: A business view
Yes, all of the work in this stems from a 2017 survey, but it is still an important piece in any discussion generating from ‘Taking away car parking is bad for the bottom line of local businesses’.
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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