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Páraic Carroll @paraiccarroll.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hosting a webinar with the Australasian Transport Research Forum Public Transport Research Committee on the topic of Integrating Micromobility into Public Transport Networks 🗓️ Wed 5 Nov 2025 | 2pm AEST / 4pm NZST 🎙️ Free event with leading experts from 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇳🇿 Register 👉 unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Great #TransportCamp session asking, “what skills do transport planners need?” The overwhelming answer was storytelling and how to influence. The technical skills are “easy”. The people skills are “hard”.

Room full of transport folks brainstorming transport planning

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Biggest TransportCamp yet? Packed agenda in Melbourne today!

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This article on the impact of 30km/h zones on cycling comfort and vehicle delay is incredibly timely, given that Victoria has JUST added 30km/hr to its speed zoning policy. One more reason to act! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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UC Berkeley SafeTREC @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Findings from @alexadelbosc.bsky.social, Carolyn Muir, Kelcie Ralph, Jesus Barajas & Angela Johnson-Rodriguez #Research suggests consistent #RoadSafety messaging about the dangers of #Speeding may help increase community support for speed enforcement measures: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Do perceptions of speeding act as a barrier to automated speed enforcement in the United States?

Speed is a significant contributor to both the likelihood and severity of road crashes, and automated speed enforcement has been demonstrated as an ef…

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Is it a freeway? No, it’s a busway! In Sunway KL, Malaysia you can travel above the traffic on the BRT or the pedestrian canopy walk.

Pedestrians canopy walk and elevated busway over a busy road in Malaysia

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Chron.com @chron.com · 13/06/2025

Will self-driving Tesla endanger Texas streets? Austin activists staged a demo on Thursday highlighting flaws in the company's "full self-driving" feature: bit.ly/45ZX3bc

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Are you an early or mid-career transport researcher in the US who has had your funding cut due to geopolitical pressures? Ready for a change of scenery? Monash University has a dedicated recruitment stream you might want to have look at. Message me for details. www.monash.edu/research/eme...

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EMERGE

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Also - I spy with my little eye our Lorenz Curve papers, led by me and Monash alumni Katerina Pavkova.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Pinch me! TWO great papers by all-female authors in one day. This one shows the (lack of) gender diversity in transport geography over time, and the topics more likely to be explored by female-led vs non-female-lead research teams. Diversity matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Topics covered by female-led vs non-female led transport geography papers

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Great new paper came across my citation alert: "Elected officials [who are women or] who have personal experience with transportation barriers ... prioritize equity values and the transport needs of equity-deserving groups more frequently." Diversity matters. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Transportation barriers and equity: Values and experiences of elected officials

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Looks like the alternative energy themes of TRB also got the axe. Has there ever been a shake up this significant in the Board’s 105 years?

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Not surprised, just disappointed. Equity and environmental justice have been wiped from the new TRB standing committee structure. Subcommittees banned entirely. Bleak times ahead for @trb.org and #TRBAM. mailchi.mp/nationalacad... nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/oth...

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Transportation Research Board: Technical Activities Division Organization Chart

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"A federal court judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to force New York to end congestion pricing, ensuring the tolling program would remain in place until at least early next month."

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Judge Temporarily Blocks White House From Ending Congestion Pricing

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.” Deadly by design. And they know it. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hit me with success stories of cities that have successfully shifted mode choice from car to active or public transport. London, Paris, Lisbon, Warsaw - any others?

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Former Oregonian here and I instantly recognised the view. ❤️

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trigger Warning: Person on an E-Bike Assaulted yesterday morning on the Danforth near Monarch. We are asking the community to help identify this individual & report to TPS. Please be vigilant out there, stay safe & look out for each other. 1/3

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I’m happy that Monash vending machines sell Coffee Boss but I sure enjoyed them better in Japan where they cost about $1.50.

Australian canned coffee costs $4.20 but in Japan it’s only about $1.50.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Railway Museum in Saitama is amazing. Everything from full sized engines, to a model railway, to art, to hands exhibits on railway jobs and science. Highly recommend.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

We almost went to Shibuya looking for it! Thankfully we double checked.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

3D cat billboard in Shinjuku does not disappoint

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So many different types of bicycles in Japan - fat tyre, folding, electric, and a lot with kid seats on the back. Young and old, women and men.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In Japan on a holiday so please enjoy these photos of people on bikes. They seem to ride wherever - on the street, on the footpath - and cars are so slow (max 40kph most streets) it works ok. Cycling not everywhere, but some places so popular there is paid secure parking.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I find it's similar to the Netherlands - when there's more of a culture of ped/bicycle mixing, it all kind of works, but is confronting if you're not used to mixing with bicycles. I swear there's a 'sixth sense' you develop to look out for bikes.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

And a special thank-you to Prof Elisabetta Cherchi for putting up with my endless queries, and to the reviewers who stepped up when so many refused. It took 12 months to get the first set of reviewers on board, and nearly 2 years to get to this day! (5/5)

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In our latest publication in TR-A, we used multi-level generalized linear modelling to isolate the impact of upgrades at four sites in Melbourne, relative to non- or not-yet-upgraded sites. The upgrades had a measurable impact! How much? Read on to find out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can curbside bicycle lanes buffer COVID-19 ridership losses? A case study from Melbourne, Australia

Many cities implemented temporary or permanent improvements in safe cycling infrastructure during COVID-19 in a bid to encourage cycling. However, man…

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

How can we measure the impact of these upgrades when a) the long-term cycling counters were placed by a different authority entirely and b) so many other things changed during COVID? The answer is: it's very tricky to do! (3/5)

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

But at the same time, the City of Melbourne was upgrading bicycle infrastructure to encourage sustainable, socially-distanced travel into the city. Most upgrades were modest - changing a painted lane to a kerbside lane. (2/5)

Bicycle counter locations and infrastructure upgrades during 2020-21

Satellite photos of painted bike lanes before upgrades, and an 'after' image of the bike lane moved between the parked cars and the sidewalk/footpath.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Story time! You probably know that cycling rates fluctuated dramatically during COVID. Melbourne saw massive decreases due to 264 total days under lock-down. (1/5)

A graph showing the long-term counts for bicycles in Melbourne from 2019 to 2022

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

There is recovery - in some locations - on some days - you'll have to read more when the paper comes out!

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Reviewing the proofs of a new paper (coming soon!) and it pains me to remember that in Melbourne we were under COVID lockdown for 264 days. Some of the changes to how we travel are still being felt today. Stay tuned to find out more!

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24089… Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I learned today from Kari Watkins that @trimet.org was the first organisation to ask Google to add transit travel time alongside cars. Love my home state!

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Heads up - Aldi selling tram and ferry planters from 15 March. A little treat for the transit nerd in your life? (In my life the transit nerd is me)

Also advertising planters in the shape of a combi van, camper, ferry or tram. Plants not included.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Didn’t think it would actually rain this much but worth it to welcome Kari Watkins to Melbourne!

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

After so many tumbles and stumbles it feels pretty great to see them fly.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Wow I didn't realise it was that old! Knock it down and build something more useful to the area. Would be a great spot for more mixed-sized housing.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This will have a huge impact in this local area. The Coles HQ (purple) dwarfs the apartments/shops next to it (orange), with two entrances (green) and tons of car parking (blue). Much less traffic in the short term. But who would want to take over the tenancy, I wonder?

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

There are already apartments (within the same greater complex). Retrofitting office space isn’t easy, and I’m curious what tenant would move into what’s quite a large building with a huge carpark!

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If you’re in Melbourne go see Yayoi Kusama. Trust me.

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NIMBYs be like. (Sound on. Trust me.)

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Data alert! Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria, Aus) has released their CrashStats database in an ArcGIS viewer. It makes it really easy to filter and select crash data - then download it to csv or GeoJSON. Great resource for teaching or research. experience.arcgis.com/experience/8...

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

They review and update every 3 years. Their future protocol report is focussed on new prevention technologies, doesn’t look like they’re planning to update external ped crash methods. www.ancap.com.au/protocols-an...

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In reality? Many people would end up under the Hilux. And until the testing changes, consumers will buy these vehicles feeling reassured that they are safe. Meanwhile we are going backwards wih road deaths www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia’s road toll hits 12-year high as pedestrian and cyclist fatalities rise

Government figures show 1,300 people died on the roads last year in a rate of increase not seen since the 1960s

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