ITS Monday: Edition 26 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, lots of e-scooter safety, EV Australian road trip, autonomous vehicles and safety, capped public transport, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- EVs charge to the front – and to the rescue – in clean power reforms
- Smart City & Innovation Strategy A vibrant, sustainable and connected Parramatta
- Inside NZ’s biggest fully electric bus depot in Auckland’s New Lynn
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This week’s articles
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EVs charge to the front – and to the rescue – in clean power reforms
“Electric cars could soon be sending power to the grid to stop blackouts, or earning customers payments for discharging their batteries, with a major new reform program under way to ready the electricity market for the clean energy shift. State and federal energy ministers met in Melbourne of Friday to finalise agreement over the reforms, which are also focused on consumer protections aimed at lowering power bills and have been referred by governments to the grid’s official rule maker – the Australian Energy Market Commission.”
Related iMOVE article:
- Electric Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
- Alternative Fuels: Info, Projects & Resources
- FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
- The Conductor Series: The electrification of transport
Related iMOVE projects:
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Smart City & Innovation Strategy A vibrant, sustainable and connected Parramatta
Available from the link is the city’s Smart City and Innovation Strategy 2024 – 2033, in a document named Smart City & Innovation Strategy A vibrant, sustainable and connected Parramatta. “Parramatta has been on its smart city journey for more than a decade. Our Smart City Masterplan was released in 2015, making Parramatta one of the first Councils in Australia to formalise its commitment to becoming a smart city.”
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Related iMOVE content:
- Smart Cities: Definition and Impact on Transportation
- What is Smart Mobility and why is it important?
- The 30-minute city: Small decisions for big gains
Stroad. That’s a new portmanteau for me, how about you? Liam Davies, Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University has written on the topic of straods for The Conversation. “Have you ever walked or ridden a bike along a street, and thought to yourself, “Gosh, it’s noisy”, or “This feels unpleasant”? Odds are you were on a stroad. Maybe you’ve seen someone on social media talking about a “loud, polluted, car-filled, congestion-blocked, unbearably hot, decaying concrete nightmare” of a street. Yep, that’s definitely a stroad.”
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Inside NZ’s biggest fully electric bus depot in Auckland’s New Lynn
“Bus operator Kinetic has unveiled what it says is Australasia’s largest all-electric bus depot in New Lynn, West Auckland. The company, which runs Auckland’s bus service for AT, already has about a quarter of the fleet running with fully electric Chinese-made Geely and CRRC buses. Its new zero-emission bus (ZEB) depot at New Lynn has a fleet of 86 buses, powered by 44 charging stations.”
Related iMOVE projects:
- Gippsland community e-Bus pilot
- Electric school buses for Western Australia: Feasibility study
- Charging requirements for Melbourne’s electric bus fleet
We used to send out a weekly newsletter, ITS Weekly Roundup, a collection of ITS- and mobility-related news from across the world. ITS Monday is a replacement for that, a collection of links to news and opinion pieces, academic papers, and more. Additionally, you can follow us on Linkedin and Twitter, both of which have a focus on iMOVE news and projects, or subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter.
*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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