Our top 10 articles for 2022

10. Sydney MaaS trial: Design, implementation, lessons, the future

Number 1 in 2021, this stays in the top 10 for 2022. This is the project outcome article of the MaaS trial in Sydney project, and includes the downloadable final report for the project. It also includes a new spin on a definition of Mobility as a Service.

9. Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the evidence

In position 9 we have another project outcomes article, this one an overview of the findings from our numerous projects in the area of Working from Home, projects that ran in NSW, Queensland, and Western Australia. The report for this collection of projects identifies the financial, economic, and social benefits of working from home, along with seven policy recommendations.

8. Movement & Place and the design of safe & successful places

Yes, this is yet another project outcome article, in this case the finding and final report of the Exploring the Movement and Place Framework project, with Transport for NSW and Swinburne University of Technology.

This project tried to answer the following questions:

• Can immersive virtual environments be used to assess the impact of pedestrian-oriented urban design elements and safe system treatments on pedestrians’ perceptions of safety and place?
• How do safety treatments enhance or diminish pedestrians’ perception of safety and place, and is it possible to rank or prioritise pedestrian-oriented urban design elements and safe system treatments based on pedestrians’ perceptions?
• Do street trees and other forms of street landscaping improve pedestrians’ perception of safety and place?

7. Integrating drones into NT Health

This is I believe this project’s third appearance in one of these top articles of the year compilations, a testament to the importance of the work, not to mention that it has generated a lot of media interest. This work looks at developing local capacity to integrate autonomous aircraft into the health care supply chain to remote communities in the Northern Territory. That work, and this project, is ongoing.

See also our interview with the drone pilot on this project, at Chief Remote Drone Pilot takes health project to new heights

6. Community transport: Defining the problems, fixing the future

The project outcome area of content is indeed popular this year, with this piece containing the overview and final report for the Innovative local transport: Community transport of the future project. This project had numerous project partners, including ITS Australia, Department of Transport (WA), Transport for NSW, Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland), Department of Transport Victoria, and the University of Technology Sydney.

“This report does offer great insight into just what community transport is, and what it needs. It also speaks to funding, costs, emerging technology, compliance risk, capacity of the sector, workforce challenges, opportunities for systemic and service innovation, and policy reforms.”

5. Advanced data analytics: Real-time demand calibration/prediction

This project, with Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland), Aimsun, and the Queensland University of Technology on board, commenced in the very early days of 2022. It aims to improve travel demand calibration and accuracy of 24 hour/ 7 days network simulation models (live and offline) for the AM and PM peak hours, in fact any hour of any day. The enemy? Traffic congestion.

4. World best practice digitisation in transport/freight: And Australia?

Another of our project outcome articles, the project in focus for this is the Digitisation in transport and freight: Lessons for Australia project. This articles provides an overview of the project, some of the main findings, and again a link to download the project’s final report.

Also included is a link to a recording of a webinar we ran about this project, Transport digitisation – lessons/opportunities for Australia.

3. ODIN PASS: A Mobility as Service trial at UQ

Number 2 in last year’s top 10 list, slipping only the one place in the year since. In this project Department of Transport and Main Roads and the University of Queensland are actively exploring how Mobility as a Service (MaaS) schemes can enhance personal mobility locally, with a particular focus on increasing public and active transport patronage. It’s fair to say that MaaS may have taken a hit during the COVID pandemic, but interest remains high.

2. Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot: Final reports

Another project outcome article in the top 10? Yes indeed! This trial saw more than 350 participants have their vehicles retrofitted with connected vehicle technology for nine months. This technology allowed those vehicles to communicate with roadside infrastructure and transport management systems.

Amongst the findings from the trial, this: “In a broader context, with a total of 526 fatalities and 20,826 serious injuries being reported from crashes on the South East Queensland (SEQ) road network over the five-year period of 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2021, the eight C-ITS use cases implemented in the ICVP could have prevented up to 101 fatalities and 4,198 serious injuries from crashes. This equates to an average of 20 fatalities and 840 serious injuries prevented each year in SEQ.”

Three reports from the trial are downloadable from the page.

1. iMOVE Conference 2022

It was so pleasing not only to be able to finally host another event, but also to bask in its success. iMOVE Conference 2022 was held in Sydney, as recently as November 14 and 15, so this has well and truly been a much-viewed page! Relive the sessions, read interviews with some of the speaker, and download the speakers’ presentations. Oh, and keep an eye out for our next conference. Watch this space!