Infrastructure
This category includes any product or service that enables micromobility.
New School Zone Cameras Target Speeding Drivers
Brisbane, Queensland New speed cameras fixed inside flashing school zone signs were switched on across Queensland for the first time on 23rd January. The purpose-built cameras were part of a world-first pilot designed to protect students during their daily travels, according to Queensland Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey. “We know there have been…
Active Transport Improvements in Queensland Road Upgrades
Cairns, Queensland Active transport corridors have been incorporated into several Queensland main road projects open for public comment or outlined in recently-released project masterplans. Recently announcements and updates by the Queensland Government for road upgrades in Cairns, the Sunshine Coast, Bribie Island and the Gold Coast have all included improvements to active transport infrastructure. A…
Strategy’s 64 steps to Active 15-Minute Communities
Sydney, NSW This month’s release of NSW’s first Active Transport Strategy will “set an unprecedented target and steps to double walking and cycling trips” over the next 20 years, according to the Minister for Active Transport Rob Stokes. “Our plans for strategic cycleway corridors across Greater Sydney are just as city shaping as the major…
Membership Drive to Forge Path for Better Streets
Sydney, NSW A new Better Streets active transport advocacy and support group is on a membership drive as it prepares to target the NSW election in March. Better Streets is aiming to sign up at least 1,000 individuals and organisations in NSW – including actions groups, businesses, schools and health providers – to its active…
Would You Like to Manage the 2023 Micromobility Conference?
Sydney, NSW We’ve been very thankful to receive great feedback from delegates to the first annual Micromobility Conference, held from 25th-26th November. If you were a delegate and haven’t yet completed the feedback survey, then please do so as soon as possible as we’re now compiling and reviewing all feedback to make improvements for next…
Engineering School Puts Infrastructure on Course for Better Cycleways
~ Sponsored Content ~ Cycleway design in Australia will be boosted by a new professional development course launched recently by the University of New South Wales as part of its new Australian Graduate School of Engineering (AGSE). UNSW recently developed the Active Transport: Cycleways Design course, which is the first of its kind in Australia.…
Beam Launches Fun Video with Serious Safety Messages
Adelaide, South Australia Share scooter provider Beam has launched a new safety campaign in Australia and NZ, coinciding with the summer season, to educate the general public on the safest way to ride e-scooters. The centrepiece of the campaign is a safety video on digital media and the app used by Beam riders. The video…
Scooter Companies Welcome Government Strategy to Declutter Paths
Brisbane, Queensland An e-Mobility Parking Plan has been launched by the Queensland Government to address the ‘clutter’ of e-scooters and other e-mobility devices on the State’s paths. The plan aims to improve the parking of e-scooters, e-bikes and other e-mobility devices “to ensure they are not left in a way which blocks paths and creates…
Study Adapting US City Micromobility to Remote Australian Towns
Cairns, Queensland A Cairns-based town planner pushing to make micromobility a public transport solution for Far North Queensland communities has received a Churchill Fellowship to study in the US, to further research the proposal. The Australian Town Planner of the Year for 2020/21, self described “passionate regionalist” Nikki Huddy, will spend eight weeks studying eight…
Vanity, Not Climate Change for Micromobility Disruption
Sydney, NSW Virtually no one rides e-bikes because of climate change, according to micromobility pioneer Oliver Bruce. Instead, people typically travel by e-bike because it’s often quicker and there’s the opportunity for a bit of exercise, he told last month’s inaugural Micromobility Conference & Expo in Sydney. At the same time, advocacy for micromobility as…