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Arts, Design & Architecture City Futures Research Centre

City Futures Mobility

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The Mobility Program explores how urban travel shapes our environment, economy, health, and wellbeing. Our vision is that walking, cycling, micromobility, and public transport are the easiest, most natural choices. Through rigorous research and real-world solutions, we shape policy, planning, design, and delivery models that make low-impact, people-focused mobility the default, helping cities meet ambitious environmental, economic, and social goals while enhancing everyday quality of life.

Competitive advantage听

We are a multidisciplinary research team specialising in mobility systems innovation. Our expertise spans urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture, transport planning, economics, data analytics, and modelling, enabling integrated analysis and evidence-based solutions. We collaborate with stakeholders across public and private sectors, apply rigorous research to inform policy, optimise planning processes, and advance implementation strategies. Our projects drive measurable improvements in accessibility, environmental, economic, and enjoyment performance of urban transport networks and the places they interact with.

Our team is connected with local, state, national, and international networks at the forefront of mobility, ensuring we remain informed and engaged with emerging trends and innovations. Recent research projects include infrastructure scenario planning, using VR to test new technologies and street design concepts (national and state projects), analysing local government project delivery models and optimising them through consensus building (international, state and local projects), conducting surveys from national to local street scales (national and local projects), and undertaking project evaluations (international, state and local projects).

Impact

Our research portfolio encompasses a diverse array of impactful projects. Some notable initiatives include contributing to the development of NSW cycleway design guidelines (iMOVE CRC). A key objective of this project was to test the designs in the NSW Cycleway Design Toolbox with 鈥榠nterested but concerned鈥 cyclists and inform the first review and next iteration of the Toolbox. Our team has created an interactive tool for rapid assessment of cycling infrastructure scenarios, optimising the location, routing, and types of cycleways to increase investment return (ARC Linkage). We are collaborating with Transport for NSW, CWANZ, 12 NSW local governments, the Committee for Sydney, and Vivendi Consulting to examine and optimise cycleway project delivery practices (ARC Fellowship). Our efforts extend to establishing a national platform for cycling data and analytics (ARC LIEF) and we continue to collaborate on an Australian-Canadian initiative with our colleagues at Monash University on interventions for all ages and abilities in bicycle networks and speed management (NHMRC).

Successful applications and research highlights

Over the past five years the Mobility Program has been successful in securing several major grants including:

  • two-year grant from iMOVE CRC with Transport for NSW 鈥淪afer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers鈥
  • 听two-year ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant 鈥淭he National Cycling Data and Analytics Platform鈥澨
  • five-year National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant: 鈥淏uilding CapaCITY/脡 for Sustainable Transportation鈥
  • three-year ARC Fellowship 鈥淧roject Delivery Harmonisation for Urban Micromobility Infrastructure鈥.

Capabilities and facilities

The Mobility team is supported through various state-of-the-art facilities. The City Analytics Lab (CAL), at the 91色情片 Kensington Campus is equipped with video walls and interactive touch screens to support both the co-design of new digital tools and end-user workshops to explore location-based insights into the form and function of the city. We collaborate with our colleagues at 91色情片鈥檚 Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) using VR technology to test street design options and emerging technologies.

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Projects

Current

Building CapaCITY/脡 for Sustainable Transportation

The Building CapaCITY/脡 for Sustainable Transportation project is a collaborative Australian-Canadian initiative aimed at accelerating the implementation of sustainable transport infrastructure to support healthier, more equitable, and environmentally friendly cities.听

CoS Healthy Streets Longitudinal Study 鈥 Oxford Street and Castlereagh Street

This project aims to gather firsthand accounts of people's views, preferences, and overall perceptions before and after the construction of the Oxford Street and Castlereagh Street cycleways.

Sustainable mobility: city-wide exposure modelling to advance bicycling

This project aims to develop a world-leading platform for city-wide modelling of cycling exposure.

The National Cycling Data and Analytics Platform

This project will facilitate the integration, sharing, and dissemination of new and existing cycling-related data. In order to address gaps in the current data and provide a seamless data hub for understanding current cycling trends and the needs of future or potential cyclists, a nationwide survey of cycling attitudes and behaviours will be conducted.

Transport Oriented Development Atlas, Sydney

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a dense development model where mixed communities are built around transit nodes to reduce dependence on private vehicles and to increase the use of sustainable transport modes by providing walking and cycling-friendly built environments.

WalkTHERE: multimodal, multi-activity, open-source destination access metrics

This project developed a walkability index, WalkTHERE (Walking Travel from Home to Everywhere Required Everyday) designed to shed light on the potential for walking as a mode of transport.

Professional development
AGSE Cycleway Design Course

  • 2026

    • Harris, M. S., & Roberts, L. (2026). Bicycle infrastructure for the 鈥業nterested but concerned鈥: a literature review of global trends and local insights from Sydney鈥檚 cycling network. Australian Planner, 1鈥22.

    2025

    • Harris, M. S., Harvey, J., Roberts, L., Lee, J. B., & Pettit, C. (2025). Community perceptions on the contribution of bicycle paths to street quality in cities new to cycling infrastructure. Case Studies on Transport Policy,21, 1鈥10.

    2023

    • Farmer D; Kim H; Lee B, 2023, 'The Relationship Between Exposure to and Trust in Automated Transport Technologies and Intention to Use a Shared Autonomous Vehicle', International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction,
    • Harris, M. S. (2023). Bicycle Infrastructure and Street Politics: Sydney鈥檚 Flagship Cycleway to COVID-19 Pop-Ups. In K. Bishop & L. Corkery (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research.
    • Mazumdar S; Jaques K; Conaty S; De Leeuw E; Gudes O; Lee J; Prior J; Jalaludin B; Harris P, 2023, 'Hotspots of change in use of public transport to work: A geospatial mixed method study', Journal of Transport and Health, 31, pp. 101650 - 101650,
    • Wu H; Lee J; Levinson D, 2023, 'The node-place model, accessibility, and station level transit ridership', Journal of Transport Geography, 113,
    • Yan J; Zlatanova S; Lee J, 2023, 'An indoor service area determination approach for pedestrian navigation path planning', Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 50, pp. 321 - 332,
    • Yoo S; (Brian) Lee J, 2023, 'Revising bus routes to improve access for the transport disadvantaged: A reinforcement learning approach', Journal of Public Transportation, 25,
    • Yoo S; Lee JB; Han H, 2023, 'A Reinforcement Learning approach for bus network design and frequency setting optimisation', Public Transport, 15, pp. 503 - 534,
    • Zhang M; Lee B, 2023, 'Make TOD More Bicycling-Friendly: An Extended Node-Place Model Incorporating a Cycling Accessibility Index', Buildings,

    2022

    • Harris, M. S., & McCue, P. (2022). Pop-up cycleways: How a COVID-19 鈥榩olicy window鈥 changed the relationship between urban planning, transport and health in Sydney, Australia. Journal of the American Planning Association.
    • Salih SH; Lee J, 2022, 'Measuring transit accessibility: A dispersion factor to recognise the spatial distribution of accessible opportunities', Journal of Transport Geography, 98,
    • Xie R; Zlatanova S; Lee J, 2022, '3D indoor environments in pedestrian evacuation simulations', Automation in Construction, 144,
    • Xie R; Zlatanova S; Lee J, 2022, '3D indoor environments in pedestrian evacuation simulations', Automation in Construction, 144,
    • Yan J; Lee J; Zlatanova S; Diakit茅 AA; Kim H, 2022, 'Navigation network derivation for QR code-based indoor pedestrian path planning', Transactions in GIS, 26, pp. 1240 - 1255,
    • Yoo S; Kim H; Kim W; Kim N; Lee J, 2022, 'Controlling passenger flow to mitigate the effects of platform overcrowding on train dwell time', Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, 26, pp. 366 - 381,

    2021

    • Han H; Chen H; Lee J, 2021, 'Spatiotemporal changes in vertical heterogeneity: High-rise office building floor space in Sydney, Australia', Buildings, 11, pp. 374 - 374,
    • Mousavi A; Bunker J; Lee J, 2021, 'Exploring socio-demographic and urban form indices in demand forecasting models to reflect spatial variations: Case study of childcare centres in hobart, Australia', Buildings, 11, pp. 493 - 493,
    • Nepal MP; Hon C; Lee J; Xiang Z, 2021, 'Towards an integrated approach to infrastructure damage assessment in the aftermath of natural hazards', Buildings, 11, pp. 450 - 450,
    • Yan J; Zlatanova S; Lee JB; Liu Q, 2021, 'Indoor Traveling Salesman Problem (ITSP) Path Planning', ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION, 10,

    2020

    • Chia J; Lee J; Han H,听2020,听'How does the location of transfer affect travellers and their choice of travel mode?鈥擜 smart spatial analysis approach',听Sensors (Switzerland),听20,听pp. 1 - 17,听

    2019

    • Chia J; Lee B,听2019,听'Extending Public Transit Accessibility Models to Recognise Transfer Location',听Journal of Transport Geography