Active Transportation Lessons from London for Australia

Person cycling on protected bicycle lane over Westminster Bridge, London.

London, UK Recently I spent a week in London enjoying glorious mid-summer sunshine and 9:30 pm sunsets while my colleagues in Australia were enjoying a record mid-winter cold snap. Ahh… that felt good to write! But it wasn’t all beer and skittles, as they say in the UK. Back in March when I made my…

Huge Investment in New Products on Show at Eurobike 2024

Outdoor demo exhibition area of bicycle expo.

Frankfurt, Germany Each year, Frankfurt, Germany hosts the world’s biggest bicycle and micromobility expo. With western Europe being so much more transport and utility focused than Australia, products that still have a small market here, such as e-cargo bikes, have huge markets in Europe, so take centre stage at Eurobike. This article is a customised…

Update Your Listing! New Micromobility Portal Now Open

Micromobility Report front cover

Late last year we launched the first annual Micromobility Report Yearbook. This is a sourcing guide that we publish in both online flipbook and print formats. The Micromobility Report Yearbook follows the proven format of its sister publication, The Latz Report Yearbook that has been successfully serving the Australian bicycle trade since 1996. Even in…

More Women and Children are Riding in Sydney

Man on e-cargo bike with two children seated in the back and backpack in the front.

Sydney NSW A detailed survey of 5,722 cyclists passing by seven precisely defined checkpoints within the City of Sydney has revealed some fascinating insights. Normally I don’t run press releases in full, in fact, perhaps one in a hundred of the releases I’ve been sent over the years. But I’m doing so at the end…

Autonomous Driving is Here and Will Be Good for Micromobility

Waymo Robotaxi parked on a street

I’m not an expert, but for the past decade I’ve been following developments in autonomous driving quite closely. I also consume a lot of podcasts with tech / transportation / cycling / micromobility themes. Like anything that’s radically different, there has been a lot of hype and fear in roughly equal parts in relation to…

Welcome to the First Micromobility Report Podcast!

Wollongong, NSW & Brisbane, Qld I’m thrilled to announce that we’re officially launching the Micromobility Podcast today! We’re planning to bring you one interview per month with guests from around Australia and the world. Our first interview, live now, is with Philip and Irene McAleese, co-founders of See.Sense. Established in 2013 by Philip and Irene…

30 KPH Trial Extended and Expanded in Melbourne

A 30km per hour sign in a city street

City of Yarra, Victoria Studies have shown that at 30 kph the fatality rate for cyclists and pedestrians when hit by a motor vehicle is only 10%, which quickly climbs to 90% at 60 kph. Lowering the speed limit to 30 kph on local streets has been proven by crash data to dramatically reduce the…

Annual Guide to E-Bikes – More Growth and Innovation Ahead

E-bike product shot

In some ways e-bikes almost seem old-fashioned and already taken for granted, when there are newer, bright shiny things to capture our attention such as e-scooters or light electric vehicles. But the Australian e-bike market really only started to take off just seven years ago and despite a post-covid drop in import numbers and a…

Active Transport Lessons from Taipei for Australia

Taipei cityscape

Taipei, Taiwan When it comes to transportation and urban design, every large city faces a similar set of challenges and trade-offs, but they respond to these in vastly different ways. Taipei is the capital and by far the largest city of Taiwan. I first visited in 1996 to attend the annual Taipei Cycle expo, which…