Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities

Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities brings together our expertise in understanding how cities are planned and designed to create more just, sustainable and healthy outcomes.

Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities

Current research activities include: urban planning and governance, transport and mobility, critical infrastructure, digital and technologies, health and wellbeing, urban design.

We interpret the ‘urban’ focus of the centre broadly, with an interest in the processes and relations across scales and over time that shape our lives.

Research focus areas include housing, land, urban policy, homelessness, displacement and dispossession, inclusion, urban ecologies, social and cultural issues and urban cultures.

Acknowledgement of country

Researchers from the Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities theme acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation and the traditional owners and custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their ongoing unceded sovereignty to land and waters, and acknowledge the wisdom of their Ancestors and Elders, both past and present. As a group of researchers whose work is deeply connected to place, we are committed to supporting the protection of Country by prioritising respect and care for community, place and culture in all that we do.

Key people

Sarah Foster
Associate Director, Planning & Transport for Healthy Cities
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Chris De Gruyter
Deputy Associate Director,Planning & Transport in Healthy Cities
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Afshin Jafari
Deputy Associate Director, Planning & Transport for Healthy Cities
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Carl Higgs
Lucy Gunn
Hannah Badland
Karen Villanueva
Annette Kroen
Belen Zapata-Diomedi
Steve Pemberton
Alexandra Kleeman
Rojan Afrouz
Tayebeh Saghapour
Melanie Lowe
Amanda Alderton
Manoj Chandrabose
Zahra Yousefi
Andrew Butt
Sapan Tiwari
Annie Landau-Ward
Roger Singleton
Billie Giles-Corti
Jago Dodson
Tiebei Li
Liam Davies
Joe Hurley
Mahsa Abdollahyar
Keun Hee Lee
Ian McShane
Robin Goodman
Amir Yousefli
Rebecca
Stefan Siebel
Hossein Moradi
Rosie Morrison
Rebecca Clements
Yaguang Tao

Higher Degree research students

Khilda Wildana Nur
Desmond Gagakuma
Atefeh Soleimani Roudi
Pouya Molaei
Mehdi Alidadi
Shuai Zhang
Tara Jamalishahni
Kieran Hegarty
Nick McFarlane
Rebecca Weiner
Tharindu Bandara
Jessica Rivera Villicana
Catalina Mardones Martinez
Somaieh Ebrahimi
Dewi Kumalasari
Julia Kingham

Stakeholder engagement group

Jonathan Spear (Infrastructure Victoria)
Kristie Howes (Victorian School Building Authority, Department of Education & Training)
Hugh Batrouney (Department of Transport and Planning)
Taru Jain (Department of Transport and Planning)
Amy Mak (Department of Transport and Planning)
Pheobe Wilson (Victorian Planning Authority)
Kath Phelan (Infrastructure Victoria)
Matt Cameron (VicHealth)
Pru Smith (Suburban Rail Loop Authority)
Giles Michaux (Department of Transport and Planning)
Tim Westcott (City of Melbourne)
Paul Carter (Arup)
Mike Day (Hatch Roberts Day)
Mark Sheppard (Urbis)
Jess Noonan (Tract Consultants)
Stephen Hodge (WeRide Australia)
Garry Brennan (Bicycle Network)
Anna Gurnhill (National Heart Foundation of Australia)
Bruce Johnson (Independent)

Projects

AToM

Activity-based and agent-based Transport model of Melbourne.

Natural Hazards and Resilience in Complex Urban Systems

This project will help us better understand multidimensional, cascading, and compounding disaster impacts (known and emergent), and the vulnerabilities and resilience of major urban areas in Australia.

Designing liveable neighbourhoods to support healthy ageing

The project investigates the liveability factors that influence healthy ageing.

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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