Future Smart Strategies™
@fssau.futuresmart.com.au
Business Advisors: Built Environment, Energy, Health, Infrastructure, Innovation, Markets, Planning, Policy, Resources, Sustainability, Technology, Training, Transport
Managing Director @profraywills.bsky.social
http://www.futuresmart.com.au
Managing Director @profraywills.bsky.social
http://www.futuresmart.com.au
Pinned
We at @fssau.bsky.social running projections since 2012
We've aimed to be #leastwrong
Which is measurably better than not right
Here's graphs of aged IEA forecasts compared to 3 of our aged FSS projections versus actual data
Also all our aged solar forecasts to 2023
@profraywills.bsky.social
We've aimed to be #leastwrong
Which is measurably better than not right
Here's graphs of aged IEA forecasts compared to 3 of our aged FSS projections versus actual data
Also all our aged solar forecasts to 2023
@profraywills.bsky.social
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Car driver privilege
My vehicle is so big, I shouldn't have to wait like normal cars
(Note the bonnet of the 4WD is as high as the passenger car's roof)
Now imagine the possibility there was a small child or a dog standing there the driver didn't see
My vehicle is so big, I shouldn't have to wait like normal cars
(Note the bonnet of the 4WD is as high as the passenger car's roof)
Now imagine the possibility there was a small child or a dog standing there the driver didn't see
The technology to end traffic deaths exists.
Why aren’t we using it?
www.fastcompany.com/91330938/the...
Advanced driver assist only works if ADA switched on
Most drivers opt to leave it switched off!
I say mandate ADA permanently on
Also ANCAP ought assess difference when ADA on vs off!
Why aren’t we using it?
www.fastcompany.com/91330938/the...
Advanced driver assist only works if ADA switched on
Most drivers opt to leave it switched off!
I say mandate ADA permanently on
Also ANCAP ought assess difference when ADA on vs off!
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Car driver privilege
My vehicle is so big, I shouldn't have to wait like normal cars
(Note the bonnet of the 4WD is as high as the passenger car's roof)
Now imagine the possibility there was a small child or a dog standing there the driver didn't see
My vehicle is so big, I shouldn't have to wait like normal cars
(Note the bonnet of the 4WD is as high as the passenger car's roof)
Now imagine the possibility there was a small child or a dog standing there the driver didn't see
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Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport
PT is going electric From bus trials to expanding networks
Hear how it turns cities cleaner
We need #EVs for all uses
Jack Scarlett
with
Ray Wills
Clare Walter
Tim Pratt
Dan Cass
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
PT is going electric From bus trials to expanding networks
Hear how it turns cities cleaner
We need #EVs for all uses
Jack Scarlett
with
Ray Wills
Clare Walter
Tim Pratt
Dan Cass
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport
PT is going electric From bus trials to expanding networks
Hear how it turns cities cleaner
We need #EVs for all uses
Jack Scarlett
with
Ray Wills
Clare Walter
Tim Pratt
Dan Cass
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
PT is going electric From bus trials to expanding networks
Hear how it turns cities cleaner
We need #EVs for all uses
Jack Scarlett
with
Ray Wills
Clare Walter
Tim Pratt
Dan Cass
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
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The future is what designers design and that regulators permit
And the pollution that comes from it
bsky.app/profile/prof...
And the pollution that comes from it
bsky.app/profile/prof...
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The future is what designers design and that regulators permit
And the pollution that comes from it
bsky.app/profile/prof...
And the pollution that comes from it
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Australian values no longer found in US with Trump
A fair go
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
If I could get a selfie, I wouldn't choose a drongo sTrumpet!
I'd choose @governor.ca.gov
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Australian values no longer found in US with Trump
A fair go
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
If I could get a selfie, I wouldn't choose a drongo sTrumpet!
I'd choose @governor.ca.gov
bsky.app/profile/prof...
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Australian values no longer found in US with Trump
A fair go
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
If I could get a selfie, I wouldn't choose a drongo sTrumpet!
I'd choose @governor.ca.gov
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Australian values no longer found in US with Trump
A fair go
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
If I could get a selfie, I wouldn't choose a drongo sTrumpet!
I'd choose @governor.ca.gov
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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State Development Bill
Bill intends to expedite approvals to support economic objectives, but framing opens significant risk of eroding environmental and social pillars on which genuinely sustainable future relies
Ppotential for regulatory backsliding looms large
www.ccwa.org.au/state_develo...
Bill intends to expedite approvals to support economic objectives, but framing opens significant risk of eroding environmental and social pillars on which genuinely sustainable future relies
Ppotential for regulatory backsliding looms large
www.ccwa.org.au/state_develo...
Open Letter - State Development Bill
This Bill has the potential to modify key legislation in the state in a way that has the very real potential too lead to poor environmental outcomes in Western Australia.
www.ccwa.org.au
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
State Development Bill
Bill intends to expedite approvals to support economic objectives, but framing opens significant risk of eroding environmental and social pillars on which genuinely sustainable future relies
Ppotential for regulatory backsliding looms large
www.ccwa.org.au/state_develo...
Bill intends to expedite approvals to support economic objectives, but framing opens significant risk of eroding environmental and social pillars on which genuinely sustainable future relies
Ppotential for regulatory backsliding looms large
www.ccwa.org.au/state_develo...
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Everything Electric energy & electric vehicle show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Everything Electric energy & electric vehicle show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show
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Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
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The environmental crisis isn't slowing down for 2PP politics
Weight of science and public opinion is on the side of urgent reform
Real “nature positive” reform needed, urgent, robust laws that match the scale of the biodiversity and climate crises, not carve-outs and loopholes and concessions
Weight of science and public opinion is on the side of urgent reform
Real “nature positive” reform needed, urgent, robust laws that match the scale of the biodiversity and climate crises, not carve-outs and loopholes and concessions
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The environmental crisis isn't slowing down for 2PP politics
Weight of science and public opinion is on the side of urgent reform
Real “nature positive” reform needed, urgent, robust laws that match the scale of the biodiversity and climate crises, not carve-outs and loopholes and concessions
Weight of science and public opinion is on the side of urgent reform
Real “nature positive” reform needed, urgent, robust laws that match the scale of the biodiversity and climate crises, not carve-outs and loopholes and concessions
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The Earth without "art" is just "eh"?
— Banksy
— Banksy
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Earth without "art" is just "eh"?
— Banksy
— Banksy
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It's not a drone strike
It's a tariff that Ukraine has insisted Russia pay
It's a tariff that Ukraine has insisted Russia pay
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's not a drone strike
It's a tariff that Ukraine has insisted Russia pay
It's a tariff that Ukraine has insisted Russia pay
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What do we do with (almost) free?
What do economists do with free?
What does the Reserve Bank do with free?
Electricity from #renewables anti-inflationary, and the principle to electrify everything
@rewiringaus.bsky.social
With @bobbyllew.bsky.social @fullycharged.bsky.social
youtu.be/uXFC-BvDZX4
What do economists do with free?
What does the Reserve Bank do with free?
Electricity from #renewables anti-inflationary, and the principle to electrify everything
@rewiringaus.bsky.social
With @bobbyllew.bsky.social @fullycharged.bsky.social
youtu.be/uXFC-BvDZX4
December 1, 2024 at 2:50 AM
What do we do with (almost) free?
What do economists do with free?
What does the Reserve Bank do with free?
Electricity from #renewables anti-inflationary, and the principle to electrify everything
@rewiringaus.bsky.social
With @bobbyllew.bsky.social @fullycharged.bsky.social
youtu.be/uXFC-BvDZX4
What do economists do with free?
What does the Reserve Bank do with free?
Electricity from #renewables anti-inflationary, and the principle to electrify everything
@rewiringaus.bsky.social
With @bobbyllew.bsky.social @fullycharged.bsky.social
youtu.be/uXFC-BvDZX4
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Shocker: Canavan's claim ignores the data
Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records
Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...
Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...
Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records
Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...
Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Shocker: Canavan's claim ignores the data
Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records
Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...
Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...
Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records
Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...
Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...
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Everything Electric energy & electric vehicle show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
Who else is going?
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
Who else is going?
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Everything Electric energy & electric vehicle show
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
Who else is going?
Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/
I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett:
Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries
au.everythingelectric.show/vic/giga-the...
Who else is going?
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Physics never stops 🧪
On a wet day, wheels on a wet surface with paint applied will lose traction
True for any vehicle, but most dangerous when riding a 2-wheeler bike, motorbike, etc - from loss of wheel traction, especially slippage from the front wheel in turns
#cycling
#roadsafety
#urbanism+
On a wet day, wheels on a wet surface with paint applied will lose traction
True for any vehicle, but most dangerous when riding a 2-wheeler bike, motorbike, etc - from loss of wheel traction, especially slippage from the front wheel in turns
#cycling
#roadsafety
#urbanism+
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Physics never stops 🧪
On a wet day, wheels on a wet surface with paint applied will lose traction
True for any vehicle, but most dangerous when riding a 2-wheeler bike, motorbike, etc - from loss of wheel traction, especially slippage from the front wheel in turns
#cycling
#roadsafety
#urbanism+
On a wet day, wheels on a wet surface with paint applied will lose traction
True for any vehicle, but most dangerous when riding a 2-wheeler bike, motorbike, etc - from loss of wheel traction, especially slippage from the front wheel in turns
#cycling
#roadsafety
#urbanism+
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Australian values aren't reflected in US under Trump
Australian values:
A fair go
Clear democratic principles
Equality of opportunity
Mutual respect
Tolerance
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Australian values:
A fair go
Clear democratic principles
Equality of opportunity
Mutual respect
Tolerance
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/prof...
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Australian values aren't reflected in US under Trump
Australian values:
A fair go
Clear democratic principles
Equality of opportunity
Mutual respect
Tolerance
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Australian values:
A fair go
Clear democratic principles
Equality of opportunity
Mutual respect
Tolerance
The rule of law
MAGA Gulf of Trump USA does not share values with Australia @albomp.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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California hits new energy milestone - batteries dispatch more than 25% of California's evening power
Here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-zo... @samzouai.bsky.social
More here from @mzjacobson.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/mzja...
Some Western Australian experience in the thread below
Here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-zo... @samzouai.bsky.social
More here from @mzjacobson.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/mzja...
Some Western Australian experience in the thread below
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
California hits new energy milestone - batteries dispatch more than 25% of California's evening power
Here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-zo... @samzouai.bsky.social
More here from @mzjacobson.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/mzja...
Some Western Australian experience in the thread below
Here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-zo... @samzouai.bsky.social
More here from @mzjacobson.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/mzja...
Some Western Australian experience in the thread below
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Australia fiddles with fossils while it swelters in record heat
Makes no sense
It is in Australians interests to act against global warming
Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
@billhare.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Makes no sense
It is in Australians interests to act against global warming
Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
@billhare.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare
Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Australia fiddles with fossils while it swelters in record heat
Makes no sense
It is in Australians interests to act against global warming
Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
@billhare.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Makes no sense
It is in Australians interests to act against global warming
Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
@billhare.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ancient people from Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during last ice age to be North America's First Peoples
Siberian land bridge model sets migration ~13kYA as last ice age waned
But archeological + DNA evidence of Pacific coastal route suggests ~20kYA
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Siberian land bridge model sets migration ~13kYA as last ice age waned
But archeological + DNA evidence of Pacific coastal route suggests ~20kYA
phys.org/news/2025-10...
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ancient people from Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during last ice age to be North America's First Peoples
Siberian land bridge model sets migration ~13kYA as last ice age waned
But archeological + DNA evidence of Pacific coastal route suggests ~20kYA
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Siberian land bridge model sets migration ~13kYA as last ice age waned
But archeological + DNA evidence of Pacific coastal route suggests ~20kYA
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Australia overtakes United Kingdom to rank 3rd behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity
Australia 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at / nearing financial close
(Current operating: 8,616 MW / 18,121 MWh)
pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/a...
ping @mzjacobson.bsky.social
Australia 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at / nearing financial close
(Current operating: 8,616 MW / 18,121 MWh)
pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/a...
ping @mzjacobson.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Australia overtakes United Kingdom to rank 3rd behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity
Australia 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at / nearing financial close
(Current operating: 8,616 MW / 18,121 MWh)
pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/a...
ping @mzjacobson.bsky.social
Australia 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at / nearing financial close
(Current operating: 8,616 MW / 18,121 MWh)
pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/a...
ping @mzjacobson.bsky.social
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The Caravan to the future
And here's Matt's pitch to modernise Australia's communications
And here's Matt's pitch to modernise Australia's communications
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The Caravan to the future
And here's Matt's pitch to modernise Australia's communications
And here's Matt's pitch to modernise Australia's communications
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Australian values versus political capture
Dave Pope 2024
Dave Pope 2024
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Australian values versus political capture
Dave Pope 2024
Dave Pope 2024
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2025 National Guard deployments in Chicago unprecedented in scale, driven by federal policy, not local law request
Neutral media outlets call it political theatre escalating tensions without clear evidence of claimed crime rates
Also, tear gas banned in warfare, but ok for citizens
Neutral media outlets call it political theatre escalating tensions without clear evidence of claimed crime rates
Also, tear gas banned in warfare, but ok for citizens
Communities are being gassed despite having a restraining order
Chicago
Chicago
October 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
2025 National Guard deployments in Chicago unprecedented in scale, driven by federal policy, not local law request
Neutral media outlets call it political theatre escalating tensions without clear evidence of claimed crime rates
Also, tear gas banned in warfare, but ok for citizens
Neutral media outlets call it political theatre escalating tensions without clear evidence of claimed crime rates
Also, tear gas banned in warfare, but ok for citizens
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatechange warms the region
3 specimens discovered in what was previously one of few places in the world without these insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Iceland heating 4x average rate of Northern Hemisphere
#globalwarming
3 specimens discovered in what was previously one of few places in the world without these insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Iceland heating 4x average rate of Northern Hemisphere
#globalwarming
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatechange warms the region
3 specimens discovered in what was previously one of few places in the world without these insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Iceland heating 4x average rate of Northern Hemisphere
#globalwarming
3 specimens discovered in what was previously one of few places in the world without these insects
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Iceland heating 4x average rate of Northern Hemisphere
#globalwarming
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If you had been on the train, you'd be home by now.
Just sayin'.
#publictransport
#urbansm+
(Kwinana Freeway in Perth, 21 Oct 2025)
www.perthnow.com.au/wa/traffic/p...
Just sayin'.
#publictransport
#urbansm+
(Kwinana Freeway in Perth, 21 Oct 2025)
www.perthnow.com.au/wa/traffic/p...
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
If you had been on the train, you'd be home by now.
Just sayin'.
#publictransport
#urbansm+
(Kwinana Freeway in Perth, 21 Oct 2025)
www.perthnow.com.au/wa/traffic/p...
Just sayin'.
#publictransport
#urbansm+
(Kwinana Freeway in Perth, 21 Oct 2025)
www.perthnow.com.au/wa/traffic/p...