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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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04 November 2024
Climate Change: It is real but are we misreading or over-reacting to the impact on natural evolution of human settlement as the cause of the problem?
Professor David Hensher debates whether the impact of human activity on the climate been overstated, and whether the changes we observe are correlational in nature rather than causal.
02 October 2024
A tale of two continents – the experience of on demand bus transport
Professor Emerita Corinne Mulley and Professor John Nelson consider the effectiveness of various implementations of on demand transport (ODT) bus-based services both in Australia and overseas.
02 September 2024
IPART – an example of practical thinking outside the box
Professor John Stanley explores NSW's Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) fare setting policies for public transport, and considers how social inclusion benefits also need to be taken into account when proposing or updating fare structures.
05 August 2024
How much do you know about electric vehicle owners’ travel habits? Still not much …
Dr Andrea Pellegrini discusses how collaboration between private charging operators, research institutions, and policymakers is essential to enrich understanding of EV owners’ travel behavior and improve the public EV infrastructure network.
Initiatives such as the partnership between the Institute of Transport and Logistic Studies (ITLS) and the Australian Vehicle Council to conduct an EV vehicle ownership survey demonstrates a step towards addressing this knowledge gap.
01 July 2024
Navigating the Seas of Carbon Taxing: Balancing the Scales in Global Shipping
Veronica Schulz and Michael Bell discuss how the expansion of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to include shipping reflects progress in tackling carbon emissions, but challenges like carbon leakage persist, requiring coordinated global efforts. Australia could enhance its emission reduction by making its ACCU scheme mandatory for ships and establishing green shipping corridors, aligning with international initiatives.
03 June 2024
Funnelling congestion: How Sydney exacerbated congestion after spending tens of billions on transport infrastructure
Dr Christopher Day and Dick Day point to a need for more integrated, thoughtful planning, guided by independent research and a more accountable and transparent evaluation process.
06 May 2024
Should supply chain leaders invest in generative AI solutions?
Dr Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya provides three basic questions for supply chain leaders to ask to detrmine if they should invest in generative AI solutions.
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.