Transport Archive
Overdrive: Tesla up and down costs; Election transport policies; Lego cars
15 March 2019
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Hello and welcome to Overdrive, where we mull over issues to do with cars and transport. I’m David Brown In this week’s program news stories with David Campbell 1. Tesla Cuts the price of Model 3 but increases Australian Charging Prices 2. Holden Hopes to rebound after several bad sales years 3. Volkswagen’s Jetta becomes
Anita Curnow – Transport engineering is about people
25 September 2018
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In September 2018 students in post graduate and undergraduate courses at Monash University in Melbourne organised a Transportation Engineering Student Leadership Summit. The summit started with a keynote speech from Anita Curnow who is the Executive Director of Access and operations at VicRoads, the road authority for the state of Victoria. Students commented that Anita’s
Prof David Hensher shows a better way to pick transport projects
2 July 2018
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A conversation with Professor David Hensher As part of a podcast series for the University of Sydney Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), David Brown had a conversation with Professor David Hensher the founder and director of the ITLS. The subject was on computer modelling of the landuse/transport systems, most particularly the ITLS developed
Overdrive: Uber in trouble; The future of how we get around; Lexus NX300 Road Test; NASCAR declines
2 December 2017
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News including a data breach by Uber, a new biofuel production system, the decline of “Big Oil”, Tesla’s new competitor, and what the NBN has to do with transport infrastructure. We discuss a report on the future of how we get around “New mobility now, a practical guide”. We road test one of Lexus’ best
New Mobility Now – A practical Guide – talking to one of the authors
30 November 2017
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With the recent wave of euphoria about autonomous cars many people have imagined indeed verge on fantasying about the potential for motoring utopia – chauffeur style travel for all your needs. Of course it is not that simple. The international consulting company WSP (Formally WSP parsons Brinkerhoff) has just published a white paper New Mobility
Car fuel from whiskey waste and bagpipes on planes
5 August 2017
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List all your Scottish jokes here! Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes how to reduce the carbon footprint of extracting, transporting, refining, and burning those fuels to reduce the
