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Our Thinking Outside the Box articles from 2015-2019 are now available as a free monograph, grouped by topic. Download Thinking Outside the Box: 67 Thought Pieces (PDF, 2.2MB).
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02 April 2024
E-Scooters: Coming Soon to a Street Near You or Not?
Stephen Greaves (ITLS, University of Sydney) and Geoff Rose (ITS, Monash University) discuss how the proliferation of e-scooters in Australia has brought about legislative challenges, with confusing rules and safety concerns, revealing a disconnect between existing regulations and public expectations. The evolving landscape calls for a thorough examination of infrastructure, licensing, registration, and insurance to ensure the responsible and sustainable integration of e-scooters into the urban transportation system.
04 March 2024
Making cost-benefit analysis more relevant when reducing social exclusion matters
Professor John Stanley explores the recent shift in land use transport (LUT) policy priorities towards reducing social exclusion, highlighting the challenge in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of monetising societal benefits.
05 February 2024
How value adding is AI for strategic transport planning? Is AI Intelligent or simply a descriptive information dump?
Professor David Hensher reflects on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative-AI (G-AI), in strategic transport planning, discussing its adaptability to diverse and unpredictable future scenarios, highlighting concerns about the limitations of G-AI in predicting situations with high divergence and emphasizing the need for utilizing hidden data not captured by AI.
08 January 2024
Autonomous Vehicles: Friend or Foe (or both)?
Abdullah Zareh Andaryana, Michael Bell, and Mohsen Ramezani provide an overview and critique of autonomous vehicles.
04 December 2023
Managing peak period rail travel: How fares should be constructed to spread commuter loads in the post-Covid working environment
Christopher Day looks at how the extension of the peak time period hasn't flattened the peak and suggests returning to the previous peak time period would have benefits in terms of reducing the transport network’s maximum peak utilisation and corresponding capacity requirement.
06 November 2023
Toll Review Public Hearing Presentation
This is the presentation given to the NSW Toll Review Public Hearing on 11 July 2023 by Professor Martin Locke. In preparation the discussion paper, summary of work completed and the submissions from TfNSW, Transurban and IPA to last year’s inquiry, were reviewed.
03 October 2023
Tolling and price setting
In June 2023 the NSW Government invited submissions on the review of tolls and their structure across the toll network in Sydney. This short piece is the submission by Professor David Hensher.
04 September 2023
Value Creation through physical and virtual agglomeration
David A. Hensher, Glen Weisbrod (EBP USA) and Ian Christensen (iMove CRC) discuss how the value creation perspective seems to have merit across physical and virtual agglomeration and why we need research to identify the probability that physical or virtual agglomeration can deliver on value creation for specific activities.
07 August 2023
Population growth and the economy: A mixed blessing?
Christopher Day discusses population policy as one of the big three economic levers.
03 July 2023
Using Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Supply Chain Risks
Professor Ben Fahimnia looks at how AI-driven analytics can help our essential supply chains to build resilience capabilities through systematic detection of mitigation strategies.