ITS Monday: Edition 4, 2020

Driving into a city should become as antisocial as smoking

This addresses locations in the United Kingdom, but the topic of lessening vehicles in the city, a vehxit if you will, is a pertinent topic for cities all over the world.

A car-free future? How UK cities are moving towards a pedestrian age

Want more talk of the UK and car-free cities? OK, here you go.

Norway’s Oslo,a  leader in this area, also gets a mention.

San Francisco joins the move to ban cars from a major street

Hmmm. Perhaps I should have called this Cities without cars instead of ITS Monday. In this article we swing across the Atlantic Ocean, across the landmass of the USA, to San Francisco. This week, in part of its downtown precinct, San Fran has banished cars. This article tells you where, and how it’s going so far.

Shade mapping tool helps pedestrians dodge heat

Shadeways is an app that enables pedestrians to finds routes that provide most shade coverage so as to avoid the heat in getting from A to B. Developed by RMIT researchers, it’s being trialled in Bendigo, Victoria.

By the way, shade as an area of influence in transport was mentioned in my interview with Dr Dorina Pojani.

Darwin’s E-scooter trial

And the journey around the world continues, and here we are, finally, in Australia. And Darwin’s getting in on the e-scooter thing.

This article is from the City of Darwin website, and lets you know that the 12-month trial has just begun, and provides a map of where the city’s 250 e-scooters are permitted to be ridden.

4 predictions for the electric scooter industry

And staying on the topic of e-scooters, here’s a quickfire, targeted assessment of the state of play in electric scooter land. Who stays / who goes, what cities have to say and what they might do, form factors, and the ongoing skirmish that is data collected.

What is the best urban design to reduce road injuries?

Dr Jason Thompson of the University of Melbourne talks about his research looking at how city designs that can ‘reduce reliance on cars, without reducing population mobility, are critical for mitigating many of our most pressing environmental and public health concerns’.

Vienna to reward car-free travel with concert and museum tickets

There really is a strong theme in this week’s ITS Monday. More news on pedestrians and cities, with Vienna soon to begin a trial to incentivise people to alter their transport habits.