ITS Monday: Edition 33, 2023
A small collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week, transport vs pandemic, car-share and new buildings,discount EV partnership, trouble in bike lane land, and lots more.
The article headlines below are:
- Evaluating Travel Behavior Resilience across Urban and Rural Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions of Vaccination and Epidemiological Indicators
- Car sharing in residential developments could be key to reducing inner-city traffic congestion
- Deal to drive discount EV loans for Aussie drivers
- Charging Australia’s EV uptake with strategic integration
- How do commuting distances vary across Melbourne and Victoria?
- Public transport use yet to return to pre-COVID levels in South Australia
- Seymour leads the way with first regional Victorian ZEB network
- How U.S. and EU proposals could steer the transition to zero-emission truck and bus fleets
- California bill to ban driverless autonomous trucks goes to Newsom’s desk
- Some German cities are offering drivers free public transport. But there’s a catch.
- Cruise unveils a wheelchair-accessible self-driving car
- Queensland Cycling Action Plan 2023-2025
- Cycle Design Manual
- ‘Bottom of the food chain’: e-scooter riders push for reimagining of Australia’s bike lanes
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: All things Sustainable Transportation (not to mention all the other Transport Topics)
This week’s articles
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We’re off to a big start this week, with a big title about a big, recent, disruption in the world of transport, COVID-19. “Using an integrated dataset with over 150 million US county-level mobile device data from 01/01/2020 to 20/04/2021, we employ Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) models to infer the relative impact of the vaccination intervention on five types of travel behavior across Metropolitan, Micropolitan and Rural areas.”
Co-authors on this working paper are Haoning Xi, John Nelson, David Hensher, Hu Songhua, Xuefeng Shao, and Chi Xie..
Related iMOVE content: Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence
READ THE ARTICLECar sharing in residential developments could be key to reducing inner-city traffic congestion
“Urban planners say it’s only a matter of time before councils start encouraging high-density housing development without car parks as a solution to traffic congestion in major cities.” And so talked about here is news about a new development on the Gold Coast, providing tenants-only access to a number of share electric vehicles.
Related iMOVE content: Traffic Congestion Info, Projects & Resources
READ THE ARTICLEDeal to drive discount EV loans for Aussie drivers
The Commonwealth Bank and Tesla have partnered, putting together a deal that will see CommBank customers being offered discounts on Tesla EVs. “We’re seeing really strong demand from customers – almost one in six of our new car loans are now electric,” said Commonwealth Bank personal lending general manager Joel Larsen.
READ THE ARTICLECharging Australia’s EV uptake with strategic integration
“With the increasing uptake of electric vehicles, researchers at the Reliable, Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030) are leading a project to demonstrate how strategic integration with Australia’s electricity grid and energy storage is vital for electric vehicle adoption.”
Related iMOVE project: Electric vehicles: Supporting uptake, investigating smart charging
Related iMOVE content: The Conductor Series: The electrification of transport
READ THE ARTICLEHow do commuting distances vary across Melbourne and Victoria?
The latest analysis of transport stats for Chris Loader’s Charting Transport blog. “This post explores ABS census data on the on-road distances between homes and workplaces around Melbourne and Victoria (a future post may cover other parts of Australia).
Related iMOVE project final report: Long-term pandemic impact on business and residential location
READ THE ARTICLEPublic transport use yet to return to pre-COVID levels in South Australia
“New figures show South Australia’s public transport network is still struggling to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, with people working from home considered a contributing factor.”
READ THE ARTICLESeymour leads the way with first regional Victorian ZEB network
“Residents of Seymour are the first in regional Victoria to benefit from their town having an entirely zero emission bus network as part of the state government’s push toward a cleaner and more sustainable bus fleet. Seymour is leading the way in transitioning the state’s entire bus fleet to zero emissions with all the buses servicing the town’s five bus routes now being electric.”
Related iMOVE projects: Electric school buses for Western Australia: Feasibility study and Charging requirements for Melbourne’s electric bus fleet
READ THE ARTICLEHow U.S. and EU proposals could steer the transition to zero-emission truck and bus fleets
“Proposed new greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) in the United States and European Union mark the first time that manufacturers would need to sell zero-emission trucks and buses to meet the standards. These proposals, from the world’s largest commercial vehicle market (the United States) and the third largest (the European Union), send a clear policy signal to commercial freight markets around the world. But as we’ll explain, the EU proposal sends a far stronger signal, and the U.S. proposal could come closer to meeting transport decarbonization goals in a couple of important ways.”
Related iMOVE project final report: FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
Related iMOVE project: Zero emissions heavy vehicles: Analysis, planning and policy
California bill to ban driverless autonomous trucks goes to Newsom’s desk
Staying with trucks but shifting to the driverless variety, “the California Senate passed a bill Monday that requires a trained human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving, heavy-duty vehicle operates on public roads in the state. In effect, the bill bans driverless AV trucks.”
Related iMOVE content: Autonomous Driving Info, Projects & Resources and Autonomous Driving Technology
READ THE ARTICLESome German cities are offering drivers free public transport. But there’s a catch.
Before you click through to read this article, see if you can guess what the one catch is. Have your guess in mind? OK, click through … now.
MAKE YOUR GUESS, READ THE ARTICLECruise unveils a wheelchair-accessible self-driving car
“Cruise, the autonomous-car company owned by General Motors, has unveiled a wheelchair-accessible self-driving car called Wav. A fully built and operational prototype was showcased at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. Cruise aims to launch the vehicle next year, starting with a pilot program for a handful of users.”
Related iMOVE project: Railway station platform gap solutions effectiveness
READ THE ARTICLEQueensland Cycling Action Plan 2023-2025
Available for download at the link, “The Queensland Cycling Action Plan 2023-2025 lists the practical actions the Queensland Government needs to do right now to grow cycling.”
Related iMOVE project: Safer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers
READ THE ARTICLEAnother cycling plan, another country, this is from the National Transport Authority of Ireland. “The Cycle Design Manuel draws on the experience of delivering cycling infrastructure across Ireland over the last decade, as well as learning from international best practice, and has been guided by the need to deliver safe cycle facilities for people of all ages and abilities.”
READ THE ARTICLE‘Bottom of the food chain’: e-scooter riders push for reimagining of Australia’s bike lanes
“A new transport hierarchy is being negotiated in our cities, leading to friction on footpaths and bickering in bike lanes. Is there a better way?” There’s all sorts of opinions, but not a lot of action on solutions.
Related iMOVE content: Micromobility and Active Transport
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