ITS Monday: Edition 44, 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, autonomous trucks, e-scooter safety, lower speed limits, a new National Urban Policy, and more.
The article headlines below are:
- Isuzu planning autonomous trucks and buses by 2027 – report
- Improving the road safety of e-scooters (PIN Flash 47)
- Lower residential speed limits: let’s stop the “car”nage
- National Urban Policy
- The state of electric vehicle adoption in Colorado for multifamily versus single-family dwellings: A methodology for quantifying deviation from parity
- Transit modal complementarity: Measuring the access provided by transfers
- How do access and spatial dependency shape metro passenger flows
This week’s articles
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Isuzu planning autonomous trucks and buses by 2027 – report
“A partnership between Isuzu Motors and US vehicle software startup Applied Intuition could result in autonomous trucks on Japanese roads within three years.”
Related iMOVE articles:
- Autonomous Driving Info, Projects & Resources
- Autonomous Driving Technology
- Connected Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources
Related iMOVE projects:
- C-ITS national harmonisation and pre-deployment research
- Environmental impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Safely deploying automated vehicles on Australian roads
Improving the road safety of e-scooters (PIN Flash 47)
A publication from the European Transport Safety Council. “This report is in three parts. In parts I and II we examine the available crash data for deaths and serious injuries involving ‘motorised micro-mobility devices’ – a category which includes e-scooters but also rarer vehicle types such as self-balancing unicycles and segways. In part III we look at countermeasures to reduce the risks to e-scooter users and other road users, looking at technical standards for vehicles, road rules, infrastructure and speed limits in urban areas.”
Related iMOVE articles:
Related iMOVE project:
- Impacts & community benefits of a regional active travel network
- OneDock: Supercharging e-micromobility
- Road use activity data: Cyclists, pedestrians and micromobility
Lower residential speed limits: let’s stop the “car”nage
The latest from the Institute of Transport and Logogistics Studies’ Thinking outside the box series. “Professor Stephen Greaves and Ray Macalalag explain why they support lowering residential speed limits for reasons of safety, environmental benefits, and the potential for more active and healthier lifestyles by encouraging walking and cycling.
Related iMOVE article:
Related iMOVE projects:
- Evaluation and implementation of shared spaces in NSW
- Easy and novel ways to engage communities around road safety
“Nearly 80 percent of Australia’s population lives in our 20 largest cities. Most people in Australia live in urban areas. How our cities are designed, planned and managed has a profound impact on the daily lives of people. The quality of urban places and the connections between them impact access to basic services, our participation in community life and the amount of time we can spend with friends and family. Well-designed urban policy can promote innovation, reduce inequality, connect us to the natural world, improve social cohesion and help us all achieve our individual and collective potential.”
The document is downloadable at Sustainable Transportation Resources.
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To finish this week’s ITS Monday, three new academic papers. The abstract of the first:
“Given that electric vehicle adoption is well underway, the spatial distribution of electric vehicle owners by housing type—single-family or multifamily— shows whether parity (equal adoption rates) is being achieved or to what extent adoption by housing type is over or undersaturated (i.e., over- or under-adoption). We use a proprietary dataset of vehicle registrations with modeled housing type to analyze saturation ratios in Colorado in 2022. We found significant single-family oversaturation and multifamily undersaturation in 14% and 23% of ZIP codes, respectively, suggesting Colorado can still mitigate disparities in electric vehicle adoption by housing type through accessible vehicles and charging.”
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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Transit modal complementarity: Measuring the access provided by transfers
This new academic paper id co-authored by Hema Rayaprolu and David Levinson. The abstract:
“This research investigates the interactions among transit (public transport) modes by inferring complementarity from a comparison of access provided by various transit modal combinations over a period of 160 years. A unique historical dataset of transit networks and services including buses, trains, and trams, generated for the Greater Sydney region for a period spanning from 1855 to 2015 was used. Access to population was measured for each year by 11 different modal cases formed by combinations of the three transit modes at a spatially disaggregated level as well as the regional level. The changes in access provided by the different modal cases were compared temporally and spatially to infer complementarity among the modes.
Throughout the study period, trains, buses, and trams (when available) were found to be highly sub-additive at the regional level. Spatial comparison of complementarity was also demonstrated for Sydney’s Central Business District as an example. Such an investigation of access by modal combinations is a useful planning tool to ensure equitable supply and to investigate transfer benefits and penalties.”
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How do access and spatial dependency shape metro passenger flows
Last this week, this piece co-authored by Mengying Cui, Lijie Yu, Shaoyu Nie, Zhe Dai, Ying-en Ge and David Levinson. The abstract:
“Spatial imbalances in metro ridership significantly reduce the overall efficiency of metro system. Understanding the factors that contribute to metro ridership is essential for developing targeted strategies to improve ridership equity and overall system performance. This study introduces novel spatial dependency indices based on spatial weight matrices and land-use function complementarity to explore how access and inter-station spatial dependency affect metro ridership, focusing on station-level boardings and alightings, as well as station-to-station flows.
Using the data from the Xi’an Metro, the findings indicate that access to employment and residence from metro stations considerably enhances station-level boardings and alightings. Walking access emerges as a critical factor, especially in the context of station-to-station travel. Furthermore, the analysis reveals a complementarity feature within the metro system, where increases in boardings (alightings) at one station leads to a higher demand at others. Stations that serve areas with complementary land-use functions tend to attract more travel between them. These findings emphasize the critical role of access and spatial dependency in enhancing transit planning and system efficiency.”
Related iMOVE project:
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