ITS Monday: Edition 10, 2024
A small, weekly collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, a report into Sydney’s toll roads, post-pandemic city activity, safe footpaths, and where for e-bikes?.
The article headlines below are:
- Independent Toll Review
- The light duty vehicle to nowhere
- Co-evolution of public transport access and ridership
- From object obfuscation to contextually-dependent identification: enhancing automated privacy protection in street-level image platforms (SLIPs)
- Workers still haven’t fully returned to the CBD – but the city doesn’t need them
- Continuous footpaths at driveways & side streets
- There’s a far more urgent problem on our streets than kids on e-bikes
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!
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 …
An interim (and extensive!) report into the Sydney toll road system. “This report is about tolls in the Sydney metropolitan area. There are 13 toll roads in Sydney, including two operated by the State Government. The remaining 11 are operated by private concessionaires. This makes Sydney the most tolled city in Australia. The city location of the toll roads makes their economic and social impact large. Tolls have been developed for each of the thirteen toll roads separately without regard to any overall system linking them. There is no unified system of tolling.”
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The light duty vehicle to nowhere
“As regular readers of Emissions Analytics’ newsletter will know, the evidence clearly points to using full hybrid electric vehicles (FHEVs) as the best route to rapid, low-risk decarbonisation of cars and vans for the next decade. FHEVs cannot deliver the biggest aggregate reduction in principle, but with scarce battery resources and higher manufacturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of battery electric vehicles (BEV), FHEVs can deliver more CO2 reduction now, and potentially for some time to come. As the evidence for this is strong, yet the argument is losing traction, we wanted to explore the paradox.”
Related iMOVE content:
- Electric Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
- FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
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Co-evolution of public transport access and ridership
Professor David Levinson‘s latest Transportist blog. “While transport infrastructure and travel demand are known to be correlated, their causal relationship has not been systematically investigated. Granger causality tests have been conducted in the context of transport infrastructure and economic growth, and land use and transport.”
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A new paper, co-authored by Mark Burdon, Tegan Cohen ,Josh Buckley, and Michael Milford. The abstract:
Street-level image platforms (SLIPs) employ indiscriminate forms of data collection that include potentially privacy invasive images. Both the scale and the indiscriminate nature of data collection means that significant privacy management requirements are needed. Legal risk management is currently operated through obfuscation techniques involving certain image objects.
Current SLIP object obfuscation solutions are an indiscriminate and a blunt solution to a similarly indiscriminate data collection concern. A new contextual approach to obfuscation is required that goes beyond object obfuscation. Contextually-dependent identification would seek to identify the contexts, including captured objects, which can give rise to privacy concerns.
It is technically more challenging for automated solutions as it requires an assessment of the contextual situation to understand privacy risk. Context-sensitive privacy detection, combined with context-sensitive privacy-by-design processes, potentially offer a risk management solution that better situates and addresses the concerns arising from SLIP data collections.
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Workers still haven’t fully returned to the CBD – but the city doesn’t need them
The CBD in question here is Melbourne’s. Stats included and discussed here are around pedestrian data, foot traffic in specific locations, public transport patronage, and of course changes in worker numbers in the city.
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Continuous footpaths at driveways & side streets
“Continuous footpaths at driveways and side streets are slowly becoming a bit more common in Victoria. However, these treatments tend to be the exception to standard practice with many new and remade footpaths at crossings still designed to give favour to cars.”
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There’s a far more urgent problem on our streets than kids on e-bikes
Apparently a recent photo (included in the article) resulted in a lot of discussion around where e-bikes should be ridden. Cycling advocate Anish Bhasin weighs in on the debate in this article.
“It takes an impressive degree of selective blindness to look at a photo accompanying a recent article of a child riding his e-bike to the beach, surfboard in hand, and conclude that the child is the thing to fear.
The fearful locals object to the boy riding on the footpath because he rides too fast, but would also object to him riding on the road because he rides too slow. The same group of people get whipped into frenzied opposition every time the obvious solution is proposed: reallocating road space to build a network of dedicated cycleways separated from motor traffic and pedestrians.”
Related iMOVE projects:
- Safer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers
- Your Street, Your Say: Better streets for Darebin
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