.. and we are into sustainability even more … so when we see them together as in this article in City of Sound post we get pretty excited.

This kind of real-time information delivery is vital for the uptake of mixed mobility transport solutions and public transport generally. As we can see in Helsinki if it’s done properly people use it. There’s no reason (other than political) why we can’t do this here in Australia. Clover Moore has proposed her sustainable city vision for Sydney which should include this level of wired transport.

I note with some optimism Chairman Rudd has confirmed his support for a nationwide cities policy of some kind - perhaps this will lead to financial and political will to make it happen here as we are seeing in other cities. Ultimately of course all major cities on Earth will need to run on these types of systems with minimal car use (if any).

This is assuming we have enough energy (read oil!) to support it of course by the time they are implemented.