The Hoddle Grid that dictates the flow of vehicles and people in central Melbourne has had its day. It can be remade to reduce the dominance of cars and create a liveable city for the 21st century.
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Shade, street furniture, streetscapes – they all matter when it comes to making a footpath appealing.
Traffic crashes kill and injure millions worldwide every year and are a major drain on economic development. Improving road safety would produce huge payoffs, especially in lower-income countries.
The controversial cars are under attack.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
As you’re walking through city streets on your way to work, school or appointments, you probably feel like you’re taking the most efficient route. Thanks to evolution, you’re probably not.
While the road toll has come down over the decades, it’s largely a result of fewer car occupants dying. Pedestrian deaths have barely changed for a decade, but they remain a road safety blind spot.
COVID-19 has underscored the value of parks and public spaces. A new survey shows that US mayors have gotten the message, but post-pandemic plans for public spaces remain largely undefined.
Instead of free parking, our post-COVID CBDs need a big vision to become attractive destinations that aren’t car-friendly at the expense of being people-friendly.
Pedestrians are wary of autonomous cars, but they trust traffic lights. Researchers suggest driverless cars could communicate directly with the signals to make their own actions more predictable.
Most people do not know the right-of-way rules, but a starting point should be that pedestrian needs and safety take priority. Current road rules are biased towards driver convenience
How will people respond once they realise they can rely on autonomous vehicles to stop whenever someone steps out in front of them? Human behaviour might stand in the way of the promised ‘autopia’.
In many cities, convention holds that there’s a lane for walking and a lane for standing on the escalator. But human systems engineers suggest this isn’t the most efficient option for the system.
US cities were designed and engineered around cars. Now some are working to increase walking and biking, but the shift isn’t easy.
Other people influence how we vote, what jobs we apply for, which gadgets we buy – so of course they influence how we get around the city.
The debate over the place of cars in cities may seem recent, but pamphlets published during the French Revolution show that the battle was raging before the first automobile even saw the light of day.
Torontonians have been experiencing pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities since the advent of the automobile. The one way to stop the deaths is to ban cars but since that won’t happen, what can be done?
Electric rideables are making life less comfortable and more dangerous for pedestrians. Here’s how makers of rideables could help make cities safer for everybody.
A lecturer in transport engineering weighs in on one of the greatest debates of our time.
Collisions at intersections between motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians cause many deaths and injuries. Design that considers how each group approaches intersections improves everyone’s safety.
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Adjunct Research Fellow, UniSA Justice and Society, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography, Lancaster University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide
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Co-Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
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William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
