Our top 10 articles for 2024

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2023 was a record traffic year for the iMOVE website. Casting an eye back on 2024 I’m please to report that the website saw traffic reach a new record. Normally we just do the one Top 10 article, but such was the dominance of articles from our Transport Topics section that this year we’ve done this Top 10 for articles, and another Top 10 for project-related articles.

Now, to the top 10 most-read iMOVE articles for 2024, listed from #10 to #1.

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10. Intelligent Transport Systems: Info, Projects & Resources

As with all of our Top 10 articles this year, this one on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) serves as both an explainer of the term, and a dive into iMOVE’s ITS-related project work. Headings on the page include:

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9. What is Smart Mobility and why is it important?

As I’m sure you all know, smart mobility refers to rethinking transportation, to embrace modes of transport which are safe, efficient, flexible, integrated, and environmentally friendly. This includes reducing the transport sector’s reliance on private vehicles and fossil fuels. Smart mobility solutions make use of technology developments and innovations including new business models and agile policies.

Subheading on the page include:

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8. MaaS (Mobility as a Service) in Australia

Most of these Transport Topics pages are relatively new, but this one was first published in 2018. Sub-topics on the page include:

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7. Micromobility: Info, Projects, & Resources

Micromobility has exploded on to Australian roads. And footpaths. It’s been both enthusiastically taken-up, and controversial.

This deep dive into micromobility includes:

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6. Alternative Fuels: Info, Projects & Resources

Transport’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels has made it Australia’s third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Transport was responsible for 19% of Australia’s total emissions in 2020, according to the government’s Climate Change Authority, and this is predicted to rise to 25% by 2030. Light passenger and commercial vehicles made up 62% of Australia’s transport emissions in 2019, and 60% in 2022.

Efforts to decarbonise Australia’s transport sector must include breaking its dependence on fossil fuels. There are many viable alternatives, each with its benefits and challenges.

On-page highlights include:

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5. Drone Transport: Info, Projects & Resources

The rise of drones for moving both people and parcels around the country allows Australia to look to the skies in an effort to tackle its transport challenges. There are many opportunities for drones to play a key role in alternative transport and smart mobility initiatives, moving both cargo and passengers from A to B.

Topics to hover over and dive into here include:

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4. Electric Vehicles: Info, Projects & Resources

Australia’s EV take-up currently lags behind many countries, but is beginning to accelerate as:

government policies change;
carmakers pay more attention to Australia;
EVs become more affordable;
more charging infrastructure rolls out across the country; and
more people are looking seriously at making a switch to an EV

On the page we look into:

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3. Active Transport: Info, Projects & Resources

Walking or riding rather than driving offers the two-fold benefit of increasing mental and physical health while reducing motorised transport’s impact on the environment.

Increased levels of active travel can alleviate the social and economic costs of significant public health issues like physical inactivity and depression.

Physically active people are less likely to become overweight. They’re also less likely to develop cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis and depression. Physically active adults in the workforce have lower rates of absenteeism and increased job satisfaction.

Active transport can also build social capital, which is also associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes, by increasing social and community interaction.

Some of the aspects we look into in the area of active transport here include:

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2. Sustainable Transportation: Info, Projects & Resources

Developing sustainable transport solutions, whether it is for public or private use, is an important part of ensuring countries meet environmental goals amid growing concerns about climate change. It is important to start the conversation by defining sustainable transport.

The path to more sustainable transport systems involves a variety of approaches, including the shift to low-, zero-emission and more energy efficient vehicles, development of alternative fuels and their associated fuelling infrastructure, and boosting transport mode shift to public transport, micromobility, and active transport options.

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1. Traffic Congestion: Info, Projects & Resources

And last but definitely not least, iMOVE’s most-visited article for 2024. Traffic to the article has been heavy, as has the issue of traffic congestion as one of Australia’s, and indeed the world’s, transport bugbears.