ITS Monday: Edition 30, 2024
ITS Monday is a small, weekly collection of curated content from the worlds of intelligent transport systems, smart mobility, and associated areas.
Included this week boosting active transport in Australia, urban spaces toolkit, school drop-off ideas, and more Sydney Metro.
The article headlines below are:
- The ‘active transport’ ideas from around the world that could make Australians healthier and our cities cleaner
- How autonomous vehicles can be integrated with public transport systems for urban mobility
- Global Public Space Toolkit: From Global Principles to Local Policies and Practice
- Is school travel too complex to handle without a car? Assessing “child-friendliness” as a pathway to reducing private car use for children’s transport
- The plan to build 10 new Sydney Metro lines
This week’s articles
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“We know our cities are growing really quickly and we need to look at other places that have dealt with congestion and pollution problems that come with millions of people,” says Dr Morgan Harrington, research manager at Griffith University’s Cities Research Institute.
Related iMOVE articles:
- Liar, liar, e-Bikes on fire
- Micromobilty: Info, Projects & Resources
- Active Transport: Info, Projects & Resources
Related iMOVE projects:
- OneDock: Supercharging e-micromobility
- Road use activity data: Cyclists, pedestrians and micromobility
- Impacts of eRideables on the transport task in WA
How autonomous vehicles can be integrated with public transport systems for urban mobility
This artic;e appears on thr World Economic Forum website. “Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are at a critical juncture in their development. They could bring immense benefits, including reducing the cost of operation, improving traffic safety and traffic management, and providing mobility and independence to people who are unable to drive or use public transport due to age, disability or other factors.
Yet there is considerable uncertainty about their impact. For example, the simplest path forward – replacing privately owned human-driven vehicles with privately owned AVs – will exacerbate existing transportation problems, such as increased traffic congestion, reduced urban livability and heightened mobility inequity.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Autonomous Driving Info, Projects & Resources
- Autonomous Driving Technology
- Connected Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
Related iMOVE projects:
- C-ITS national harmonisation and pre-deployment research
- Environmental impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Safely deploying automated vehicles on Australian roads
Global Public Space Toolkit: From Global Principles to Local Policies and Practice
This has been produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), “This toolkit will be a practical reference for local governments to frame and implement principles, policy recommendations and development initiatives on public space and for central governments to aid their efforts with material support and enabling legislation. It will also serve the purpose of demonstrating the value of the involvement of the citizenry and civil society in securing, developing and managing public space in the city.”
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A new academic paper, co-authored by Hulya Gilbert and Iam Woodcock. The abstract: “Recognising the multifaceted challenges of addressing the dominance of cars for children’s transport, this paper introduces and tests a “child-friendliness index” (CFI) to assess the performance of neighbourhoods and school catchments to enable or constrain how children travel to school.
The findings demonstrate that car trips both to and from school are negatively associated with child-friendliness. However, counter-intuitively there was no significant association between distance and car use, which remained high for shorter distances (< 4 km). These findings imply school travel decisions are susceptible to many factors. We discuss the policy pathway provided by CFI for school accessibility planning.
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The plan to build 10 new Sydney Metro lines
A Channel 7 news video, with plans for additions to the Sydney Metro system outlined.
Related iMOVE projects:
- Implications of large-scale price reductions in public transport fares
- Behavioural change for sustainable transport
- Mobility landscapes: Mobility as a Service customer impact trial
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