18 July, 2018
This month’s news includes:
Opportunities Ahead…
Huawei’s History in Britain May Help Explain Why Australia is so Nervous
To understand the deep institutional anxiety about Huawei among Australia’s closest security partners, you have to understand the British experience with the Chinese telecommunications giant. It’s not an episode that’s much advertised, deliberately so. But it’s an episode that is held against Huawei when it comes to why it should be denied access to Australia’s 5G network, notwithstanding its expertise and industry excellence. You can read more on this here..
Transmission Gully Motorway Looks Likely to be User-pays After Labour Shifts Gears on Tolling
Paying to use the Transmission Gully motorway is creeping closer to reality after the Transport Minister was warned the $852 million road north of Wellington could make driving too attractive. You can read more here…
Austroads Research Project
JYW is pleased to be engaged by Austroads to lead the research project NEG6121: Security Vulnerability of Existing Intelligent Transportation Systems and Devices. Should you like to learn more details on this engagement please don’t hesitate to contact us here. We look forward to working with the industry to address the findings and recommendations.
Auckland Transport Plans
Auckland Transport have released their Alignment Project and a draft version of their Regional Land Transport Plan. You can read these documents here: 1. Alignment Project, and 2. Regional Land Transport Plan.
News
NeTC Conference 2018
ITS Australia recently hosted the National electronic Tolling and Charging Conference in Melbourne, where both Henry Wu and Angus Carter presented on Digital Disruption to the Tolling Industry. If you are interested in the key learnings from the day please contact us here..
ITS Summit 2018
ITS Australia have released their preliminary program for the 6th Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit. You can view the program here… JYW will be presenting at this conference and we look forward to seeing you all there!
TfNSW MaaS Innovation Challenge
How would you give customers optimal door-to-door mobility service options and seamless combinations for their situation, including the first and last mile? Transport for NSW is launching its first industry innovation challenge, the MaaS Innovation Challenge. Click here for more details..
Something out of the ordinary…
Did you know that – Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will grow from 5 billion at the beginning of this year to 27 billion by 2024, with China taking a 21% share and the U.S. 20%.
A note from Henry…
As we head into another new financial year, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for giving us the opportunity to collaborate across a range of projects, including major transport infrastructure projects, disruptive on demand trials, real-time operation system and BI software development, transport technology business cases / road maps, automatic fare collection initiatives and transport management centre applications. I look forward to working with you all to continue the journey of digital transformation!
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