The webinar was facilitated by Kate Mackay of Mott Macdonald, and features the background and progress on the iMOVE project, MaaS trial in Sydney. Speakers include the research lead on the project, Professor David Hensher, and the project lead, IAG’s Sam Lorimer.

The video runs for almost an hour – click the button below to play.

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Increasing concern about people’s well-being plus the need to restrict movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic make the delivery of a safe, valuable event impossible for the foreseeable future.

‘We join the growing list of organisations, including the F1 Grand Prix, ALC Forum, ATA Conference, and ADVI, which have concluded that the risks are too great to proceed with their events,’ says Ian Christensen, iMOVE Managing Director.

‘Along with our own concerns for attendee well-being, there is widespread falling confidence in the safety of public gatherings and travel to them. This has meant many speakers and registrants are understandably unable to participate.

We are obviously very disappointed to not be able to deliver as promised, and all registrants will receive a full refund shortly.’

All is not completely lost though, after all the hard work. We had locked in a well-rounded and current set of topics and great speakers in both smart mobility and freight and logistics. Over the coming weeks we will work with them to see how we can still deliver some of this content. There are already interviews with some of our speakers available to read on the iMOVE website and we aim to add more.

We apologise to everyone for this unavoidable turn of events at such short notice. We also remain committed to running similarly quality events in the future.

Interviews with Transport of Tomorrow 2020 speakers

• Leon Daniels OBE: From on the buses to the Olympics
• Marion Terrill: Congestion buster
• Stuart Ballingall: Telematically speaking
• Sam Lorimer: MaaS mover and shaker

NOTE: This article is a repost of content from the iMOVE website.

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We should also stress, the conference is going ahead as planned.

At the time of writing a pandemic has not been declared. However, if you require further resources and information regarding COVID-19 we encourage you to visit the NSW Health website.

The conference venue has held management and team meetings with all staff to develop and explain the strategy and action plan:

• We have initiated a heightened hygienic cleaning process
• We have increased hygiene signage posted through the venue (both in hard copy and digital) in bathrooms, lifts, and offices
• We have placed additional sanitisers and ISO wipes in all public areas
• We have taken the step to increase food service staff to portion serve buffets and sandwiches to reduce possible cross contamination
• We will continue to monitor and review our plan

If you are an event attendee, we encourage you to:

• If you are feeling at all unwell, stay home and speak to your primary care provider
• Stay home and not attend if you have been to a country considered at higher risk of COVID-19 in the past 14 days
• Practice simple hygiene by thoroughly washing your hands upon arriving at the venue, before and in-between sessions, especially after going to the bathroom, before eating, and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing

Transport of Tomorrow 2020: Registration

When: 24 and 25 March 2020

Where: SMC Conference & Function Centre, Sydney

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW

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Formerly the Managing Director, Surface Transport at Transport for London, Leon is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Board at Cubic Transportation Systems (an iMOVE partner). Amongst other areas, Leon has a wealth of experience, at both central and local government level, in:

• traffic and streets management
• bus transport
• urban rail
• cycling
• road safety
• river operations
• taxi and private hire industries
• policing and enforcement
• highway engineering; and
• major project delivery

Leon has decades of leadership experience in the UK transport industry and across Europe and the Middle East. He is passionate about the transport of the future and how we can learn lessons from the past to ensure that we make things work better for everybody in the future.

He will be sharing his insights in an entertaining and insightful keynote address on Day 1 of Transport of Tomorrow 2020, and also joining us to give an international perspective on the Day 2 panel session, the Sustainable Funding of Transport.

Transport of Tomorrow 2020: Registration

When: 24 and 25 March 2020

Where: SMC Conference & Function Centre, Sydney

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Video: A day in the life – Leon Daniels

Above we mentioned the various areas of Leon’s expertise. With the video evidence below, we can add bus driving capability to Leon’s skillset. The video dates back to 2014, when Leon was still with Transport for London. We also learn that his interest in transport goes back to his childhood.

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So it is, from all of us here at iMOVE, and I’m sure all of the conference attendees, a huge thank you to the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies for coming on board as that sponsor.

In addition to keeping us human with doses of coffee throughout the two days of the 2020 conference, ITLS are also providing us a keynote speaker, Professor David Hensher. Thanks ITLS!

To investigate what other sponsorship opportunities are available, visit our Sponsorship page.

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And have you registered for the conference yet? If not, let me steer you toward the Registration page. Register before 12 February 2020 and save $$!

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Ian was, of course, referring to it as a topic of a talk or paper at the ITS World Congress itself, not as pronouncement of doom for the technology. But in terms of platooning as a viable solution, there has been some talk over the past twelve months. A big cause of the conversation was on the back of Daimler’s announcement that it was withdrawing from trialling the technology.

That, in combination locally with the long-talked-about-but-never-eventuated trial of platooning in Western Australia, and the fact that for years in some areas of Australia we’ve had a perhaps faux platooning solution, the road train, could perhaps make you wonder about the viability of truck platooning in Australia.

But no, there has been some movement in this area of ITS. Cohda Wireless recently held a demonstration in Adelaide of its V2X-Locate technology, tasked for the job of platooning, and working with the ETSI (ENSEMBLE) platooning software stack. In the trial, Cohda displayed the capability of its tech to:

• Have vehicles safely drive autonomously in a platoon incorporating gap management of 5 metres (16ft) +0.4 seconds at 95 kilometres per hour (59 mph)
• Operate safely and accurately even in city environments due to the incorporation of V2X-Locate technology and its ability to provide accurate positioning even in environments where GNSS doesn’t work well.
• The provision of an extended perception horizon for each truck in the platoon due to the trucks being connected to each other through Cohda’s connected vehicle technology and not just ‘aware’ of each other’s physical presence through sensor technology.
• Allow vehicles to join and leave an active platoon without disrupting the system.
• Have the platooning system detect and accommodate other vehicles without compromising the system.
• Have vehicles operate efficiently (smooth acceleration and moderate braking) when connected in the platoon.
• Have vehicles brake in unison (cooperative braking) due to all vehicles being connected to each other, as opposed to operating in a daisy-chain manner.

List from the Cohda platooning solution page

In regards to when this technology would become commercially available Dr Paul Alexander, Cohda Wireless’ Chief Technical Officer, told iMOVE that, ‘We are working with truck OEMs to finalise the product. This might involve some further testing and refinement but we are very close to being able to take it to market.’

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The profile was entitled, Smarter transport solution could transform door-to-door work commute, and it predominantly covers the professor’s work on an iMOVE project, Maas Trial in Sydney.

What does the trial involve?

Using an app-based setting, the project will enrol participants in a six-month trial. Eligible participants, who work, live, and travel in the Greater Sydney area will arrange their everyday travel needs through a MaaS app (a customised version of Skedgo’s TripGo) linked to subscription plans.

The plans will give participants access to public transport (including train, tram, ferry, and bus) and a large portfolio of car-based transport services (e.g. taxi and car rental, Uber, Car Next Door, and GoGet).

The participants will be able to find, compare (e.g., in terms of cost, travel time, emissions and health benefits) and book these services through the app. As such, the trial will enable the participants to perform multimodal journeys seamlessly. The trial will explore the benefits of greater freedom of mobility.

Hensher is bullish about the prospects of not only the trial, but MaaS itself.

‘We’re repackaging transport options. Some people might want to continue using the modes the way they do now. But we can offer discounts. We want to expose them as they go through the app to other opportunities that may be more sustainable. The big objectives are to get people to reduce car use and to move away from an asset ownership society to a sharing society.’

It’s anticipated that findings of the Sydney MaaS trial will be presented at Transport of Tomorrow 2020, at which Professor Hensher will be a keynote speaker.

Find out a little more about the professor and his work in iMOVE’s extensive interview, David Hensher: Transport economist.

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