Road safety campaigns targeting mobile phone use among drivers should emphasise how perceived social pressure is not an acceptable excuse for engaging in the behaviour.
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Australian cities generally don’t allow pet dogs on public transport. Instead, owners need their own vehicle to travel with their dogs, and it’s a surprisingly important factor in our car dependency.
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.
Millions of Americans rely on public transit to get to school, work or stores, but many can’t get the service they need. ‘Uberizing’ transit by offering more options on demand could fill the gaps.
Could we really reduce the number of vehicles on our roads from 37m to 9m?
Using ride-hailing services full-time would mean avoiding the hassles of owning a car. But it could cost less, too – depending on how you value your time otherwise spent behind the wheel.
In recent years the number of motor vehicles – and the pollution they generate – has grown astronomically, leading some citydwellers to wear facemasks in the hopes of protecting themselves. So do they work?
Billions are being loaned against some fast depreciating assets. It could end in an almighty car crash.
Anxieties about hoodlums in cars was just another expression of an age-old fear of change.
Wider societal issues are driving road user behaviour, which cannot be fixed by taking a traditional road safety approach.
Cars are effectively becoming computers on wheels – and very attractive to cyber criminals.
Modern cars are computers on wheels. We should make sure they’re cyber-secure.
The primacy given to the car has shaped our cities, the roads that serve them and our very thinking about the place of driving in our lives. And it’s a mindset that leaves cyclists highly vulnerable.
It’s time for Australia’s personal injury insurance schemes to start preparing for change.
The dystopian urban future imagined in the Judge Dredd comics warns against letting technology rule our transport systems.
Australia needs to ‘embrace uncertainty’ on the future of transport, with flexible, holistically focused policy.
Volvo might be the first car company to go all-electric, but it’s far from the market leader and petrol will continue to be relied upon.
Aston Martin has rarely been considered an eco-friendly brand, but it has announced an electric car of considerable heft.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the bicycle, we look at new research that confirms cars cause the majority of bike collisions. It’s time to follow much of Europe and shift liability to drivers.
Auctioneers have put a record price tag on the ultimate symbol of 60s counterculture and vintage nostalgia.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
