ITS Monday: Edition 11, 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, the evidence for working from home, EV insurance troubles, and better planning for cycling.
The article headlines below are:
- Hybrid workers – evidence to support this new mainstream workforce in 2025
- ‘Very worrying’: Hidden insurance clause may not cover EV home chargers
- Planning for cycling: are current transport models fit for purpose?
This week’s articles
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Hybrid workers – evidence to support this new mainstream workforce in 2025
Another in the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies Thinking outside the box series, this time co-authored by David Hensher and Edward Wei. Here they “… analyse the current arguments for and against employees returning to the office full-time. They discuss how research supports the hybrid work model, showing no loss of productivity, and how it also contributes to reduced traffic congestion.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Working from Home: Info, Projects & Resources
- Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence
- Traffic Congestion: Info, Projects & Resources
‘Very worrying’: Hidden insurance clause may not cover EV home chargers
It’s bad enough already being a victim in a fire (or explosion perhaps to be more correct) caused by an EV or other such lithium-ion battery-powered vehicle or device, but then to be in danger of not being covered by your insurance, that’s an awful set of circumstances!
“One of the biggest barriers to the electric vehicle transition is there being enough places to charge, which is why EV home charger options are becoming more popular. But what if you’ve bought an EV, had a charger installed at your home according to Australian Standards and fitted by a licensed electrician, and your insurance still won’t cover you if something goes wrong?”
Related iMOVE article:
Related iMOVE projects:
- Fire safety for EVs and micromobility: Best practice assessment
- EV batteries: Repair, refurbish, repurpose, recycle
- Second lives for electric vehicle batteries
Planning for cycling: are current transport models fit for purpose?
A new academic paper, co-authored by Maryam Bostanara, Hao Wu, Lee Roberts, Christopher Pettit, and Jinwoo (Brian) Lee. The abstract:
Cycling provides a sustainable alternative to motorised transport by reducing emissions and traffic fatalities, which underscores the need for strategic interventions that include both infrastructure investments and non-infrastructure measures such as polices and regulations to effectively promote cycling. To support this, it is essential to have accurate models incorporating key factors driving both transport and non-transport cycling decisions.
This paper presents a summary of factors influencing cycling and evaluates their integration into current cycling models. The review spans both cycling-specific models and large-scale transport planning models, examining how well they account for transport and non-transport cycling. The paper underscores the importance of including non-transport trips in models, yet the review highlights the limited number of studies that do so and the frequent lack of distinction between transport and non-transport cycling, despite the significant share of non-transport cycling in many regions.
There is a gap between factors influencing cycling and those used in current models, particularly in incorporating individual attitudes, preferences, and motivations – which are especially influential in cycling. The study highlights the challenge of multicollinearity, where correlations between factors like infrastructure and land use make it difficult to isolate the individual effects of each variable on cycling behaviour.
This paper calls for a shift towards collecting longitudinal cycling data and conducting before-and-after studies to better isolate the factors influencing cycling behaviour, which could significantly enhance the accuracy and applicability of cycling models in infrastructure planning.
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
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