If the strategies we put in place to make cycling safer were taken up in earnest the result would often be chaos.
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The British government may reverse a 50-year-old railway policy.
Australians can see the impact of dockless bike sharing on the streets of their cities. The huge store of data collected about user journeys is less visible, but just as important.
The government claims figures showing the south gets more than the north are misleading.
It’s going to be difficult for UK government-backed autonomous vehicle projects to compete with Silicon Valley – unless they have something neat under the bonnet.
While other countries race into the distance, Australia is still on the starting grid when it comes to electric cars. Why so slow? Because we don’t have a proper recharging network.
Cities around the world are starting to rethink the vast areas of land set aside for parking. The convergence of several trends likely will mean this space becomes available for other uses.
Rules are made to be broken. Innovation stalls when you don’t follow that simple maxim.
Choreographers could offer engineers tools to stimulate new ideas in city-making.
Could we really reduce the number of vehicles on our roads from 37m to 9m?
Are mobility scooters harbingers of a future where small and versatile electric vehicles roam our cities?
Uber’s business model suggests something has to give – either its imperial ambitions or its presence in markets which hold it to account.
Instead of focusing on freeways, governments should change the way we pay for urban roads and public transport.
A rebellion against the technology which triggered the industrial revolution changed the way we understand technology.
Subways seem like the perfect solution to improve air quality in cities. But what about air quality underground?
The evidence suggests a small investment in cycling infrastructure, combined with less punitive policing, would enable more Australians to escape daily traffic congestion.
The first set of ethical rules on how self-driving cars should operate have been adopted by the German government.
Australians are crying out for political leadership. One way our leaders can redeem themselves is by getting to work on a complete shake-up of how we pay for and use transport infrastructure.
Victoria offers lessons in the benefits of integrating metropolitan and regional planning, using regional rail to shrink distance and ease the pressures of growth on our big capital cities.
Australia should follow the lead of other nations like New Zealand and Switzerland and increase the charges for heavy vehicles on roads, proportionate to the amount of wear and tear they cause.
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies
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Chris Rissel is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Intelligent Mobility, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University
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Professor and Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Transport Governance, University of Leeds
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Research Fellow, GAMUT, The University of Melbourne