Resources
This page contains some key resources on walking and cycling, including an archive of the documents produced by the Australian Bicycle Council.
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CWANZ Fact Sheet: Safety CWANZ Research has repeatedly shown that the more people walking or riding a bike, the safer it is for everyone. Reducing the number of cars and speed limits in built-up areas reduces the risk of death or injury to our most vulnerable road users. Growth in cycling is best achieved through separated cycle lanes and reduced speed limits. |
28/04/2022 | View |
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CWANZ Fact Sheet: Economic Benefits of Walking & Cycling CWANZ We can save millions of dollars in reduced health and congestion costs by increasing the number of people that walk or ride a bike for every day trips and reducing the number of people that drive. |
19/04/2022 | View |
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CWANZ Fact Sheet: Benefits of Lower Speed Limits CWANZ Benefits of lower speed limits in high activity areas and local access streets. What happens when vehicles travel more slowly in areas with lots of pedestrians and bike riders? |
19/04/2022 | View |
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CWANZ Fact Sheet: Health Benefits of Active Transport CWANZ Physical inactivity is one of the top 10 risk factors contributing to disease in Australia, contributing to 2.5% of the total burden of disease and is the 5th highest behavioural risk factor, behind tobacco use, diet, alcohol and illicit drug use. |
19/04/2022 | View |
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CWANZ Fact Sheet: Costs of Transport and Physical Inactivity CWANZ Congestion costs, transport costs and healthcare costs of physical inactivity. |
13/04/2022 | View |
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Cycling Propensity Transport for NSW This dataset contains the propensity index for cycling across different areas. It also contains the report that examines spatial relationship between areas with high propensity for cycling with high concentrations of short distance car trips. |
12/04/2022 | View |
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Active Transport to School Transport for NSW |
12/04/2022 | View |
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Bike Law Amy Gillett Foundation A bike rider’s guide to road rules in Victoria. This guide outlines the essential road rules you need to know as a bike rider. |
12/04/2022 | View |
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Travel planning toolkit guidelines and resources Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency The Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency travel planning toolkit provides you with guidelines and resources to make business trips and staff travel to and from work more efficient. You will find links to many resources to help you develop your workplace travel plan. |
07/04/2022 | View |
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Research Report 439 Generation of walking, cycling and public transport trips: pilot study Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency This research investigated a method for collecting data relating to walk, cycle and public transport trips to land-use activities. A method needed to be developed that would require a short questionnaire to ensure higher sample rates, while also providing reliable and consistent results. This data could subsequently be used in calculating trip rates for walk, cycle and public transport trips, when combined with trip rate units such as floor area. Multi-modal trip data has been collected for some time in the UK. The survey method developed in this research was simpler than the UK method by interviewing in only one direction for the vast majority of land uses, apart from residential where the recommended method was to interview in both directions. A face-to-face questionnaire method was developed over a series of different site surveys in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch during 2010. The research also identified that collecting non-car mode trip information through purely observer methods was not sufficiently accurate and that simple questionnaire surveys were necessary with clear instructions from the survey organiser to ensure all relevant information would be collected. |
07/04/2022 | View |
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Research Report 435 Walking and cycling: improving combined use of physical activity/health and transport data Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency SPARC's Active New Zealand Survey (ANZS) is a high-quality nationwide survey of over 4000 adults collected through face-to-face interviews over 12 months in 2007/08. Although collected mainly to measure levels of sport/recreation activity and to quantify physical activity in general, it includes data of interest to the transport sector on walking and cycling.
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07/04/2022 | View |
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Research Report 359 Valuing the health benefits of active modes Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency This report seeks to provide a per-kilometre value for the health benefits of active transport modes (such as walking and cycling) that is compatible with the Land Transport New Zealand Economic Evaluation Manual Volume 2 (EEM2). The first two sections of the report begin by explaining the scope of the project and the background. Section 3 investigates the evidence of the connection between physical activity and health outcomes. Section 4 clarifies the role of active transport modes as physical activity, and reports the New Zealand-specific data about active transport mode engagement. Section 5 gives a brief comparative summary of the literature review of cost-benefit analyses and valuation techniques used overseas to value the health benefits of active modes. This report uses population attributable fractions (PAF) to estimate the annual burden of mortality and morbidity costs per inactive adult. Annual estimates of the costs of inactivity are applied to the New Zealand adult population using a weighted sum to establish a per-kilometre value for each mode. The valuation presented in this report is limited by a poverty of data, but the final values are considered to be a reasonable estimate of the health benefits of active modes. While further research is recommended to obtain more precise estimates of the costs of inactivity in New Zealand, it is considered that the values presented in this report are a sound interim estimate for inclusion in the EEM2. |
07/04/2022 | View |
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Research Report 294 Increasing cycling and walking: an analysis of readiness to change Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency In 2003, Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) and the Cancer Society of New Zealand commissioned a major social marketing survey to segment adult New Zealanders in terms of physical activity and healthy eating habits. The questionnaire included several transport-related questions. The resulting ‘Obstacles to Action’ database contains responses from over 8000 people aged 16 or over. |
07/04/2022 | View |
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Low-powered Vehicles Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency There is a range of low-powered devices that New Zealanders use for travel or recreation. While these vehicles and devices offer the benefit of increased mobility, they can also increase your safety risks on and around the road. |
19/10/2021 | View |
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Shared and Separated Path Guidelines Department of Transport WA This document provides practitioners with guidance surrounding the planning and design of shared and separated paths in Western Australia to enable the safe and efficient movement of bicycle riders of all ages and abilities. It is intended to be a convenient and practical reference guide aimed at practitioners with varying levels of experience. |
06/10/2021 | View |
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Design Guidance for Pedestrian and Cycle Rail Crossings Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and KiwiRail have been leading the development of a design guide for pedestrian and cycleway treatment at level crossings. The guide will improve safety, usability, compliance, consistency and will simplify the design process. |
21/09/2021 | View |
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Research Report 660: Factors affecting cycling levels of service Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency This report examines cyclists’ perceptions of cycle infrastructure levels of service and proposes an assessment methodology for evaluating the level of service provided by cycling facilities. |
03/09/2021 | View |
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Future Transport 2056 Transport for NSW Future Transport 2056 is a suite of strategies and plans that set the 40-year vision, directions and principles for customer mobility in NSW, guiding transport investment over the longer term. It presents a glimpse of the large economic and societal shifts we will see in the future and places the customer at the centre of everything we do, to ensure we respond to rapid changes in technology and innovation to create and maintain a world-class, safe, efficient and reliable transport system. |
03/08/2021 | View |
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Tasmanian Walking and Cycling for Active Transport Strategy Department of State Growth The Tasmanian Walking and Cycling for Active Transport Strategy is a key component of the Tasmanian Urban Passenger Transport Framework, which aims to promote walking and cycling as viable and desirable forms of transport through improved infrastructure, land use planning and behavioural change. The Strategy is intended to guide development of walking and cycling as transport options in our urban areas over the long-term by creating a more supportive transport system for pedestrians and cyclists. |
30/07/2021 | View |
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Active Commuting Transport Canberra and City Services Re-think your work journey to save time and money. Active travel is a great way to incorporate regular physical exercise into your daily routine. |
22/07/2021 | View |
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Towards Zero Growth: Healthy Weight Action Plan ACT Government Department of Health The action plan establishes local action to build on the work of the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health, the work of clinicians and nongovernment bodies, and on the many ACT programs already in place under our Healthy Weight Initiative. It will take the healthy weight agenda beyond the Health portfolio and improve coordination across government. |
21/07/2021 | View |
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City Plan ACT Government This City Plan sets a vision for future development in the city centre and was officially launched in March 2014. |
20/07/2021 | View |
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ACT Planning Strategy and Action Plan 2 (ACT Climate Change Strategy) Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate - Environment The ACT Climate Change Strategy 2019–2025 outlines the next steps the community, business and Government will take to reduce emissions by 50–60% (below 1990 levels) by 2025 and establish a pathway for achieving net zero emissions by 2045. |
20/07/2021 | View |
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Transport for Canberra Transport Canberra and City Services The strategy for transport planning in the ACT to 2031 |
19/07/2021 | View |
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Active Transport Victoria Department of Transport, Victoria The Victorian Government has committed $15.3 million in the Victorian Budget 2019/20 towards Active Transport Victoria projects to deliver key upgrades for safer walking and cycling. |
16/07/2021 | View |
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Transport for NSW Economic Parameter Values Transport for NSW This document recommends economic parameter values for common benefits and costs in transport economic appraisals. By providing best-practice approaches and economic parameter values, this document supports the consistent application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) across the NSW Transport cluster. |
15/07/2021 | View |
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Economic Parameter Values Transport for NSW This spreadheet provides all tables in the Transport for NSW Economic Parameter Values. |
15/07/2021 | View |