This research presents one part of a PhD dissertation that examined conceptions of risk in relation to children’s independent mobility (CIM). CIM is defined as the use of public space by individuals who are under 18 years and unaccompanied by adults. The study finds that policy transforms children into a homogenous ‘at-risk’ population.

This paper introduces the suite of local area indicators compiled during the Transport, Accessibility and Mobility Indicators (TAMI) pilot project in 2006-07 and reflect on the opportunities and barriers encountered in their application to the local planning process.

More than one third of young Australians from non-metropolitan areas relocate to a major city in the years immediately after leaving school and, although some return, non-metropolitan areas experience a net loss of a quarter of their young people. This report is the first Australian national longitudinal study of young people’s geographic mobility.

The papers in this session address the conference theme of The Connected City, which explores the provision of urban infrastructure.

Rural Australia is under increasing social, economic and environmental pressure—and there is a perception of rural Australia struggling to adjust. All people have mobility choices, to move towards a community that is attractive; to stay in a community that is attractive relative to the cost of moving elsewhere; or to move away from a community...