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Your Transport News. 25 October 2020
Edition #12

A curated newsletter for transport professionals on current and emerging trends and issues.

Dear Transport Professional

Future Vehicles and Technology
Is Your City Ready for an Automated Future?

Oct 2020. How can a transportation agency effectively plan for emerging technologies with a 25-year view, when the future of automated vehicles, mobility as a service, ride-hailing, and electric vehicles is unclear even five years out? Read more ...

Pricing. Transport Planning
Congestion Pricing: Driving Efficiency Through Innovation, Research, and Deployment

Oct 2020. Congestion pricing and related market-oriented strategies have the potential to create far-reaching improvements in the planning, funding, and operation of transport systems. Transport facilities and services are known to produce the greatest benefits for society when prices, access and other perceived user costs reflect the marginal cost of travel, thereby balancing supply and demand. Read more ...

Transit. Safety
Transportation during the pandemic: What is considered safe?

Oct 2020. COVID-19 continues to disrupt shared modes of transportation—subways, buses, taxis, and ride sharing—as concerns about air quality and viral infections linger. This has far-reaching implications for manufacturers and transportation providers and the fiscal health of public transportation systems, with the constraints sending economic ripples through businesses, retail, and indeed entire cities. Commuters’ concerns also could affect companies’ reopening plans. Read more ...

Road Safety. Cycling
The Case for Protected Intersections

Oct 2020. Intersections are dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists. Because they were designed for cars. Even as protected bike lanes increase in number unsafe intersections are enough to discourage bicycling. What steps can be taken to improve problematic intersections for bicyclists?  Read more ...

Rail. Safety
Using Light to Reduce Fatigue and Improve Alertness in Railway Operations

Sep 2020. With the advent and increasing prevalence of driverless train operation, dispatch centres are becoming more central to reliable and safe transport. Dispatchers are highly susceptible to the detrimental effects of sleepiness and related impairment of work performance. A novel approach to mitigate the effect of sleepiness on duty is the use of red light, which can elicit an acute alerting response from humans at any time of day or night. Read more ... 

Travel Behaviour
Accessibility or Innovation? Store Shopping Trips versus Online Shopping

Oct 2020. The increasing penetration of online shopping will have major effects on physical stores. And the question is: In which areas will consumers replace most physical shopping with online shopping? e-shopping behaviour remains primarily shaped by households who are open to new technologies. [TRR].  Read more ...

Transport Planning
Incorporating Health Into Transport Projects

Oct 2020. As transport professionals, we are in the public health business. The transport policies, plans, projects, and recommendations we develop have an impact on the health of our communities and the activity levels of our residents. By shifting our transport lens from moving cars to encouraging and making it possible for people to safely, efficiently, and comfortably walk, bike, and and move, we can help mitigate grater public health concerns. Read more ...

Road Safety
Safety Impact of Speed and Red Light Cameras

Sep 2020. In-person enforcement is the most common form of speed enforcement in the United States. Automated traffic enforcement, such as cameras that capture images of vehicles that are traveling above the speed limit or running stop lights, addresses several of the limitations of in-person s peed and red light enforcement. Read more ...

Future Vehicles and Technology
How is the United States responding to automated vehicles?

Sep 2020. This synthesis provides a summary and comparative analysis of actions states across the United States are taking in response to automated vehicles. The analysis found that minimal attention is paid to the implications of AVs on the environment, public health, social equity, land use, public transit, goods movement, and emergency response. Read more ...

Transport Planning
Planning urban growth to improve the community

Oct 2020. A “polycentric” region consists of a network of compact developments connected with each other through high-quality transport options. Rather than continuing the expanse of low-density development radiating from an urban core, investments can be concentrated on central nodes and transit connections. Read more ...

Investment
Analysing behaviour to prioritise transport planning investments

Sep 2020. A survey series was designed to collect information from the public about transport attitudes as well as priorities for regional transport planning investments. The modal orientations represent a spectrum of automobile reliance (in terms of behaviour) and support for automobile accommodation (in terms of planning). Read more ...

Transit
Transit Fightback – Pushback on Technology Hype for Stronger City Futures

Sep 2020. Explores public transport futures but also aims to challenge and “derail” what current common thinking is on transport futures. A presentation of the hype, five lies, the future and transit fightback. [Monash PTRG] Read more ...

Future Vehicles and Technology
How do Electronic Road Signs Work?

Webinar 4 Nov 2020. This talk will take a brief look at the future of electronic signs and where we might be heading with operator to driver communications. Register ...

Funding. Asset Management.
Optimising infrastructure asset management across Australia

Oct 2020. Factors such as safety and traffic volumes are typically key considerations for the authorities when planning their overall strategies. Moving forwards, connected asset management is likely to become increasingly important to the authorities responsible for road ownership across Australia. Read more ...

Transport Planning
Planners must 'unhook' people from cars

Oct 2020. Transport policies should provide route map to carbon net zero by 2050. Transport planning needs to 'unhook' people from car dependence and give them more sustainable travel choices, according to a report by the Transport Planning Society's State of the Nations: Transport Planning for a Sustainable Future. Read more ...

Future Vehicles and Technology
ITS Australia Awards Showcase

Oct 2020. ITS Australia features some of the outstanding technologies and projects that are part of this year's Awards, including Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving Public Experience, Audit Specification for Infrastructure Readiness to Support Automated Driving, C-ITS (V2X) Technology in Production Vehicles, and TripGo API, SDK and White Label. Read more...

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Project Management
Is the Task at Hand Considered a Project?

Much of a professional’s day-to-day work involves delivering projects. When you think of project management, many people tend to picture teams in large organisations working on large-scale projects. Many of your smaller tasks are actually projects as well. It can be disastrous to mistake a project for regular work. Read more ...

Regards,
Phil Charles, Transport Futures Institute

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