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The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations.
Free or heavily discounted public transport can help achieve social goals. But governments must carefully navigate equity considerations.
Walking is a common way of getting around in most African cities
Serious air pollution is a common problem in stations around Australia and the world. But solutions already exist, and some can be applied immediately to protect station staff and commuters.
By moving to scrap the Auckland regional fuel tax, the government continues a decades-long pattern of transport policy U-turns that leave the city – and country – without a sustainable way forward.
Homeless families rehoused in temporary are bearing the brunt of the high travel costs and policies ill-designed to accommodate their specific needs.
Support for road-user charging strengthens when people are assured that revenue goes into reducing traffic congestion, maintaining transport infrastructure, improving public transport.
Rail has long been hailed as the cleanest means of public transport. HS2’s demise will undermine the UK’s ability to improve its rail infrastructure and potentially lead to greater inequality.
Amid bus route cuts and rail strikes, can the answer to our future public transport needs be found in the hi-tech prototypes being trialled around the UK?
Brisbane was the first Australian city to accept rideshare e-scooters. After some growing pains, residents, visitors and the city itself are enjoying the benefits, a new study finds.
They won’t make you rich but there are simple steps to take to ease the pressure on your finances when you are earning less money than you owe.
The BlackRock climate fund is a start, but New Zealand needs a comprehensive approach to tackling its various environmental and economic vulnerabilities to the climate crisis.
The National Party’s transport policy risks locking the country into a car-dependent, high-carbon future.
Cycling in Canada has been experiencing a great boom in recent years. Yet, there was no consistent and complete way to measure cycling infrastructure, until now.
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
People in search of more affordable housing gravitate to the outer suburbs, but may then find higher transport costs erase the benefit of lower mortgage payments.
New Zealand’s Medium Density Residential Standards already didn’t go far enough. But by abandoning bipartisan support for them, National risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Budget 2023’s investment in public transport will have far-reaching benefits for the climate and for overall wellbeing. But our study shows young people want much more.
Bus rapid transit is more than a way to get thousands of people to the game. Used in cities globally as an alternative to light rail, it can be a cost-effective way to transform cities for the better.
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor of Human Geography, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Business School
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Transport Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University