ITS Monday: Edition 17, 2020

NSW Transport boss flags potential shake-up of Sydney infrastructure plans

‘The state’s top transport bureaucrat is flagging a shift in major project investment to Sydney’s west if the COVID-19 pandemic leads to population growth slowing down in other areas of the city.’

Good move: Fixing transport congestion – March 2020

An executive summary of Infrastructure Victoria’s report, Good move: Fixing transport congestion – March 2020.’ It floats ideas for reducing pressure on the state’s transport system, because ‘There needs to be a change to the way Victorians use the transport system if we want to reduce congestion and get the most out of our big infrastructure projects.’

Responding to COVID-19: How to optimize transportation resources during emergencies

An article by Dan Berkovits, Director of Strategy at mobility company, Via. His focus, is that ‘… there’s one critical consideration that must be addressed immediately: how to meet the transportation needs of essential workers and ensure that communities, especially the most vulnerable, have access to food, medicine, and critical services.’

Coronavirus: Transport usage will change after lockdown

This story is from Britain, that starts will poll results suggesting that even with a reduction in the spread of coronavirus that public transport will continue to suffer a downturn in patronage, with fear of disease driving people to use their cars to commute. But what could offset that is that the current situation of many people working from home may well continue post-pandemic. The article has the poll results, and a few questions for transport planners to consider.

The traffic data that shows the road into – and out of – Covid-19 lockdown

Data from TomTom for various world cities, showing the ‘… differing impact on traffic flows shows how the restrictions evolved in different cities worldwide, where they’re loosening, and where they’re coming back.’

Time to define the new normal

This is from the MaaS Alliance, a discussion of the ‘… potential implications of MaaS to the post-corona mobility.’

MaaS observation: Vienna’s mobility push gathers pace

Norbert Schindler, founder and CEO of GNSS Consulting, in an article about the state of play of Mobility as a Service in his home city of Vienna.

Coronavirus: France offers subsidy to tempt lockdown cyclists

France is looking ahead to a post-pandemic world, and is considering ways to change transport behaviour with an eye to both congestion and pollution reduction, through some good, old-fashioned fiscal encouragement.

A coronavirus silver lining: less driving, fewer crashes

‘A study finds that California lockdown restrictions reduced crashes that kill or seriously injure people to 200 a day, down from 400 in the same period last year.’ That’s a good start, but it still sounds way too many!