Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities
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Developing new safe cycling indicators for inclusion in the Australian Urban Observatory digital liveability platform
Project dates: 2024–2029
Funded by The Ian Potter Foundation, this project is developing new safe cycling indicators for neighbourhoods across Australian cities to provide new evidence to inform the planning of future city cycling infrastructure. It will test and develop new safe cycling indicators using new artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to measure and monitor cycling infrastructure provision across cities and use data vizualisation to communicate these results through the Australian Urban Observatory digital liveability planning platform.
Sustainable cities are liveable cities and this project will enhance identification of strengths of weaknesses of sustainable transport methods available to residents in their local areas through the combination of access to public transport, walkability and bikeability of Australian cities all made available through the Australian Urban Observatory at RMIT University.
Contact: Professor Melanie Davern melanie.davern@rmit.edu.au
Key people
- Melanie Davern – Director, Australian Urban Observatory
- Lucy Gunn – Senior Research Fellow
- Alan Both – Research Fellow
- Afshin Jafari – Deputy Associate Director, Planning & Transport for Healthy Cities
- Jago Dodson – Professor of Urban Policy & Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform
- Associate Professor Chayn Sun
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