Our top 10 articles for 2020

10. Tom Walker on COVID-19 and transport

At number 10, is one of the articles from our extremely popular series, Effects of COVID on the transport sector. In this series we interviewed transport experts about the effects of COVID-19 on the industry now, along with their thoughts on its influence on the future. Here’s Tom Walker interview. Tom is Senior Vice President and Managing Director, APAC at Cubic Transportation Systems, and newly-ish appointed board member here at iMOVE.

There’s 34 interviews all up in the Effects of COVID on the transport sector series – if you missed any of it, all of it, were trapped under a vending machine, go have a read now!

9. David Hensher on COVID-19 and transport

We did say it was a popular series! Here’s Professor David Hensher’s observations on COVID-19 and transport. David is the Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney Business School. We previously interviewed David more broadly about his career, David Hensher: Transport economist. He’s also contributed quite a few articles to iMOVE over the last three years, and we’ve conveniently collected them all on the David Hensher author page.

8. Australian transport open data sources

This article made the top 10 list in 2018, in 2019, and here it is again in 2020. A big hello to all the researchers and app makers out there in out there land. I hope you’ve been making good use of this resource!

7. Conceptual architecture for future transport and mobility environment

The first appearance in the list this year of an iMOVE project. Working on this are Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and ARRB, the output of which is to ‘… produce a conceptual architecture for a Future Transport and Mobility Environment and to propose a program to further work to address the gaps and development required to meet the needs for the future.’ No small task!

6. What might COVID-19 mean for Mobility as a Service?

David Hensher’s second appearance in this year’s list. This short paper speculates on what role MaaS may have post-COVID-19. Two scenarios are proposed with one being business as usual, and the other being a significant change in the mobility framework as shared modes are less attractive and working from home takes on an increasingly popular status by both employees and employers.

5. Autonomous vehicles and Australian roads: Are they ready for each other?

This article contains the downloadable final report of our How automated vehicles will interact with road infrastructure project. This study was carried out to investigate the infrastructure needs of automated vehicles now and in the future. The study methodology included training state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help accurately localise the vehicle and recognise Australian road signs, road lines and traffic lights. For the first time in Australia the methodology also extended to compare results with and without the use of annotated prior maps (sometimes referred to as high-definition maps).

Leader of the QUT research team on this was Professor Michael Milford.

4. Colin Lew on COVID-19 and transport

The third appearance in this year’s top 10 from the Effects of COVID on the transport sector series , this interview is with Colin Lew, Head of Technology at Intelematics.

3. Working from Home: Revising metro strategic transport models

Another article on an iMOVE project, in this instance on an area that, if there is a silver lining in this year of pandemic, it has been the proof of concept of working from home. It worked, it really did, but will it remain a choice in a COVID-normal/post-COVID world?

Research on this project is by the University of Sydney’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, for the Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland, Department of Transport WA, and Transport for NSW.

2. Mobility as a Service: Progress and new insights from an Australian trial

MaaS: It was so hot in 2019, and it remans so in 2020. The pandemic put a stop to a lot of things this year, one of which was live events. In lieu of events, we ran a few webinars this year, one of which was Mobility as a Service: Progress and new insights from an Australian trial (based on a progress report on our MaaS trial in Sydney project). This article embeds the webinar video, along with links to download the speakers’ slide decks.

1. MaaS trial in Sydney

And speaking of the Maas trial in Sydney project, here it is, the number 1 most-read article on the iMOVE website this year. It’s a winning content quinella for MaaS this year!