Sonia Roitman (UQ Planning) will participate next week in the Asia Pacific Cities Summit 2023, organised by Brisbane City Council (BCC). This is the flagship networking event by BCC to discuss urban management. Sonia Roitman will discuss the importance of establishing partnerships between universities and local governments. She will present on behalf of the research … Continue reading
We are very excited to share that we got a new research grant from KONEKSI (Knowledge Partnership Platform Australia – Indonesia). This is a new grant scheme funded by DFAT (Department of Fair and Trade), Australian Government, that aims to strengthen the development of knowledge-based solutions for inclusive and sustainable policies and technologies. After a … Continue reading
Last week UQ students enrolled in PLAN3005/7121 Community participation in Planning did a site visit to the four landing locations of the Green Bridges that will be connecting West End to Toowong and West End to St Lucia in inner city Brisbane. We visited the four sites by the Brisbane River. In the former ABC … Continue reading
UQ|UP is organising a series of seminars in collaboration with the Brisbane City Council in Australia and Universitas Diponegoro and the Semarang City Government in Indonesia. We seek to foster a dialogue between Brisbane and Semarang, which have been sister cities for thirty years. There are three seminars in the series, each discussing a topic … Continue reading
Brisbane faces a variety of mobility challenges and a team of UQ|UP experts (Jonathan Corcoran, Dorina Pojani, Thomas Sigler, Frank Zou) and their colleagues are looking to the potential of micromobility – such as e-scooters and e-bikes – to help alleviate the pressure. Read the full article on UQ’s Contact Magazine: https://stories.uq.edu.au/contact-magazine/2023/why-e-scooters-are-the-public-mobility-glue-for-urban-transport/index.html Continue reading
Bicycles are a desirable but underutilised form of travel in many cities. A main barrier to a large uptake of cycling for travel is traffic safety. To assess how much traffic stress cyclists can endure and how this stress affects route choices, we have developed an index called Average Traffic Stress (ATS). This index aggregates … Continue reading
E-scooters offer commuters and tourists a way to cover shorter distances quickly – and without breaking a sweat. It’s for this reason Australian cities are trialling these schemes as part of broader interest in micromobility – small, light and often electric ways of getting around, such as bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters. But one question previously unanswered is: … Continue reading