The devastating impact of soaring fuel and mortgage prices on Australian households is graphically revealed in the new Griffith University Urban Research Program VAMPIRE index. This paper describes the devastating impact of soaring fuel and mortgage prices on Australian households. The VAMPIRE index identifies the relative degree of socio-economic stress in suburbs in Brisbane, Sydney...

One of the key emerging public concerns is the socio-economic risk to households arising from the combined impact of rising mortgage expenses, historically high petrol prices and inflationary pressures. To assess how the impact of these three factors is likely to be distributed across Australian cities we have created a new index, the ‘vulnerability assessment...

Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe assess how different socio-economic groups will be affected by rising fuel costs at the neighbourhood level. The evidence suggests that high levels of oil vulnerability are present in Australian cities but that this vulnerability is unevenly distributed. New policies emphasising public transport services are needed to avoid, remedy or mitigate...

This paper examines the links between household social status and transport disadvantage through a review of concepts for the analysis of transport disadvantage in urban research and policy making.

The following study examines the patterns and dynamics of movement in a selection of master planned estates in Australia.