Drawing on the South East Busway (SEB) in Brisbane, Queensland, a full-featured bus rapid transit (BRT) network in Australia as a case study, this paper explores the impact of BRT on residential property values and how this varies spatially.

One of the major structural changes facing Australia over coming decades is the ageing of the population. A challenge for government is how to meet the transport requirements of Australia’s senior population as their mobility declines. Transport can provide seniors with an essential link to friends, family and the wider community. It helps them to...

From first engagement between European settlers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the mobility patterns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been viewed as problematic, as random and unproductive. Subsequent policies to ‘civilise’ and ‘assimilate’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples into Western society aimed to sedentarise them. To this day such...

This paper addresses this question in relation to children’s walking. Drawing on a case study of a Western Australian primary school the authors investigate three ways in which walkability is linked to the quality of life of children: being able to access places; improving physical health; and enabling independence.

This paper explores whether and how urban transport planning in Australia is recognising and governing ‘autonomous mobility’.