By Josephine Roper, PhD student, City Futures Research Centre. Urban rivers can provide welcome open space, a cooling effect, scenic beauty and recreation opportunities, but can also be barriers to movement. Bridges are relatively expensive pieces of road infrastructure so are generally spaced out, rather than crossing a river at every possible point. But in […]
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Impact of pedestrian network barriers on walkability: a Cooks River case study
August 6th, 2021 · No Comments · Bikes, Data, Sydney, Transport, Uncategorized
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A dashboard for the GreenWay
September 3rd, 2018 · No Comments · Bikes, Data, Public space, Sydney, Transport, Wellbeing
By Alessandra Buxton, Ori Gudes, Chris Pettit and Vandana Mann, City Futures Research Centre. Cycling around Sydney CBD and the surrounding suburbs has been dubbed a dangerous and difficult experience by Sydneysiders. Both Sydney and NSW are at the bottom of their classes in terms of cycling participation rates, with participation declining since 2015 in both greater […]
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They know where you go: dockless bike sharing looms as the next disruptor – if key concerns are fixed
December 7th, 2017 · No Comments · Bikes, Cities, Data, Transport
By Christopher Pettit, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Dr Simone Z. Leao created the Bicycling Dashboard shown in this article. Beyond the benefits of dockless bike sharing for people’s mobility and health, these services are producing an ever more useful byproduct: journey data. Mapped through global positioning system […]
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