ITS Monday: Edition 30, 2023

Mobility as a Service: code of practice

Hot off the press, the UK Department of Transport has drawn up a code of practice for MaaS. ” A code of practice will enable us to support Mobility as a Service as it grows without introducing regulations at a time that could stifle innovation in this emerging industry. A code of practice will also provide an opportunity to gather further evidence in a structured manner to understand if and where regulation might need to be brought forward in the future.”

Related iMOVE content: MaaS (Mobility as a Service) in Australia

The Safe Systems Pyramid: A new framework for traffic safety

This new paper is co-authored by four US academics. “We review prior efforts to integrate public health into transportation safety, and frameworks from injury prevention and control and risk management. Based on the Hierarchy of Controls and the Health Impact Pyramid, we present a framework for prioritizing policies and interventions, known as the Safe Systems Pyramid, that contains five ascending levels – Socioeconomic Factors, Built Environment, Latent Safety Measures, Active Measures, and Education. The levels of the framework prioritize increased population health impact and decreased individual effort.”

Ampol reveals plans to build hydrogen service stations

“Ampol announced its partnership with OneH2 on Monday, revealing the companies would work together to speed up the use of hydrogen in the Australian market and help to cut emissions from heavy transport.”

Related iMOVE content: FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy and Alternative Fuels

Related iMOVE project: Zero emissions heavy vehicles: Analysis, planning and policy

How robotaxis are dividing San Francisco

The BBC dives into both the pro- and the anti-robotaxi arguments and proponents on the ground in San Francisco.

Related iMOVE content: Autonomous Driving Info, Projects & Resources and Autonomous Driving Technology

Taking sidewalks seriously

The title of this gives away that this is a US-based piece, but the concerns are universal. “Sidewalks are such an important part of urban social life that it seems a shame cities don’t do a better job of creating and maintaining them. A recent study by the urban planner Todd Litman concluded that the average city spent about 1% of its infrastructure budget on sidewalks, even though walking accounted for 11% of residents’ trips every day and pedestrian fatalities constituted 17% of all traffic deaths.”

Related iMOVE project: Your Street, Your Say: Better streets for Darebin

Fewer of us are cycling – here’s how we can reverse the decline

This from The Conversation, written by Matthew Mclaughlin, Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia, and Peter McCue, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney. It’s generated by the very recently released National Walking and Cycling Participation Survey 2023 by Cycling and Walking Australia and New Zealand. There’s a link to all the reports from the survey from this article. Also covered by the survey is other Active Transport and Micromobility.

Related iMOVE content: The rise and rise of the kerb

Toyota to test electric ute, delays first electric car

A few years ago now there was ridiculous political noise that electric vehicles was going to take away our weekends and our utes. Here we are in 2023, there are more EVs being sold, weekends are still a thing, a lo here we have news on electric utes. Granted, it’s only a concept vehicle, but still … the other news in this article concerns Toyota’s first EV for Australia experiencing delays.

Related iMOVE content: Electric Vehicles

Paris is about to become one of the only cities to ban e-scooter rentals

“Paris will this week become one of the only cities in Europe with an outright ban on rented e-scooters — as operators plan to ramp up their e-bike fleets to replace them ahead of the 2024 Olympics. Despite previously expressing hopes for a last-minute reprieve, the three firms with e-scooter operating licenses in the French capital, Lime, Dott and Tier, all confirmed to CNBC that they will have removed their scooters, or trottinettes, by the Sept. 1 deadline.”

First two SA hydrogen buses clock up kilometres

Two hydrogen fuel cell-powered buses went into service in Adelaide last week, on routes H20, 174, 172, H24 and G10.