Transport Archive
Overdrive: Smartphones for Pedestrians; Stink Bugs hit Hyundai and Kia; Disability and transport
23 December 2019
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Hello this is Overdrive a program about the facts, the fun and the fiction of motoring and transport ACCC issues new Takata airbag warning for thousands of cars (1:35) The $73b company with no name: Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot (2:45) Holden announces exclusive SUV and Ute line-up (3:35) NSW’s smartphone-detecting traffic cams go live this weekend (5:31)
Driverless cars: not necessarily a force for good – Yale Wong ITLS
5 December 2019
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Driverless cars: not necessarily a force for good David Brown interviews Yale Wong When driverless cars were first discussed they were portrayed as leading to a motoring utopia. With a robotic chauffeur we could more usefully employed reading a book, watching a video or doing some work. Increasingly we are seeing alternative views. A recent
How we describe autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing services is a “gigantic lot of nonsense”
30 July 2019
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An international transport expert believes that the language and expressions now commonly used to describe new transport technologies and services are grossly distorting our view of future. This week at a major transport conference in Adelaide, keynote speaker Professor Graham Currie from Monash University, will discuss the gross misconceptions he believes we have about the
Privatisation – No; Value Capture – maybe; and John Maynard Keynes – Prof Roger Vickerman
25 June 2019
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The Thredbo conference is an international forum on passenger transport competition and ownership issues. It is held every two years. Professor David Hensher co-founded the conference with the first held in 1989, in Thredbo. But since then it has been held in locations around the world. It has some very rigorous papers, reporting on recent
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
