ITS Monday: Edition 14, 2025
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, working from home and the transport network, micromobility’s future, 10 transport questions for decision makers, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Working from Home and the transport network: A discussion
- Micromobility’s midlife crossroads: reinvention, regulation, and the ride ahead
- Injuries of micro-mobility users continue to drop dramatically, MMfE released micro-mobility accident data shows
- The ten transport questions decision makers must ask to prevent multi-billion dollar mistakes
- Effectiveness of interventions for modal shift to walking and bike riding: a systematic review with meta-analysis
- Meet the man who keeps the world’s busiest railways running from a shed in Melbourne
- Chinese EVs beat European rivals for battery fire safety
This week’s articles
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Working from Home and the transport network: A discussion
A 30-minute audio interview with the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies‘ Professor David Hensher. “Is the recent opposition to working from home really about performance — or just outdated management egos? In this interview, Professor David Hensher urges a shift toward measuring outcomes, not just outputs, when evaluating staff performance.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Working from Home: Info, Projects & Resources
- Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence
- Traffic Congestion: Info, Projects & Resources
Micromobility’s midlife crossroads: reinvention, regulation, and the ride ahead
“In 2025, the micromobility industry finds itself at a pivotal moment. Once the poster child of tech-led urban disruption, it has entered a phase of strategic realignment and regulatory maturity. What lies ahead is not the demise of micromobility, but its metamorphosis into a more disciplined, deeply integrated part of the urban transport fabric. This combined narrative and analytical overview takes a look at the data, the deals, and the drama shaping its next chapter.”
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Related iMOVE projects:
- OneDock: Supercharging e-micromobility
- Road use activity data: Cyclists, pedestrians and micromobility
Statistics from Europe. “In 2023, the number of shared e-scooter and e-bike injuries has continued to fall. This improvement has been achieved thanks to different factors. Technological innovation enabled operators to deploy newer models, while at the same time, operators and cities have invested in education campaigns, and cities have taken action to improve infrastructure.”
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The ten transport questions decision makers must ask to prevent multi-billion dollar mistakes
From Russell King’s The Transport Leader newsletter. “Far too often, when I hear an announcement for a transport project or initiative, I think to myself, I am sure the problem they are tackling could be solved in a smarter way or the proposal is contradictory to the research evidence or in the case of mega projects, how many smaller but highly beneficial projects could be delivered with this money instead.”
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A new academic paper, co-authored by Lauren Pearson, Matthew J. Page, Robyn Gerhard, Nyssa Clarke, Meghan Winters, Adrian Bauman, Laolu Arogundade, and Ben Beck. The abstract:
Identification of priority interventions to support modal shift to walking and bike riding is challenged by the myriad of interventions available, and a lack of synthesised evidence for what types of interventions are most effective. With increasing investments in active travel, there is substantial demand for synthesised evidence of efficacy between intervention types. This systematic review aimed to measure the effectiveness of interventions to increase active travel with a primary outcome of modal shift.
Related iMOVE projects:
- Safer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers
- Road use activity data: Cyclists, pedestrians and micromobility
- Modelling cycling investments in regional areas
Related iMOVE articles:
- Active Transport: Info, Projects & Resources
- Micromobility: Info, Projects & Resources
- Road Safety: Info, Projects & Resources
Meet the man who keeps the world’s busiest railways running from a shed in Melbourne
“It might sound like the obsession of a devout trainspotter but Ravitharan and the Institute of Railway T”echnology at Monash University, of which he is a director, have become critical cogs helping some of the world’s most impressive public transport networks and supply chains function.
Related iMOVE projects:
- Mapping passive railway crossings to inform freight potential
- Australians’ size variation and implications for transport design
- Emissions and economic modelling of NSW road and rail freight
- Train horns: Broader social effects and pedestrian simulations
Chinese EVs beat European rivals for battery fire safety
“China is toughening up its electric car fire safety standards, with a new rule stating cars with battery defects that cause so-called ‘thermal runaways’ should not catch fire or explode for a period of at least two hours after the potentially disastrous process is initiated in a single battery cell.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- FACTS: A Framework for an Australian Clean Transport Strategy
- Electric Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
- Alternative Fuels: Info, Projects & Resources
- The Conductor Series: The electrification of transport
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