This report presents national statistics on serious non-fatal injury due to land transport accidents in Australia during 2006-07. Males were more than 2 times than females to be hospitalised as a result of a land transport accident, while just over 50% of those hospitalised were aged less than 30 years. When looking at serious injury...

As a result of recent changes to data collection and publication systems by the Australian, Canadian and United States national census agencies, it is now possible to compare urban densities and transport mode shares (for the journey to work) across the three countries’ urban areas on a consistent basis. This paper presents the results of...

The City of Greater Geelong has been exploring walkability in an attempt to better cater for the walking dependant population, improve rates of walking in the overall population, and achieve better population health.

This paper explores the differences in some key transport and land use factors in twenty-five metropolitan areas in the USA, Australia, Canada and Europe as well as Singapore in the year 2005-6.

This paper analyses the mechanisms that encourage car use in Australia. With the help of a survey, it also looks closer into the gap between the intension and the real actions of the environmentally conscious public organisations and individuals when it comes to car use.