Páraic Carroll

buses, and investment in areas still facing transport disadvantage. Days like today show why long-term transport planning matters. As a transport planning lecturer, I’m thrilled to see such a major investment getting people excited about public transport again.

services concentrated in the CBD. It’s a reminder that good transport planning is fundamentally about equity - connecting people to opportunities. Now the challenge is to ensure the benefits extend beyond the inner suburbs: reliable frequency, seamless interchange, coordinated..

the biomedical precinct, and other CBD campuses, workplaces...and facilities/amenities. A major step toward a more connected, equitable transport system. For many outer-suburban students, staff, patients and visitors, this delivers faster, more reliable access to...

'I couldn't be more excited': Melburnians ride the newly opened Metro Tunnel It's the biggest upgrade to Melbourne's rail network in more than 40 years, and it's arrived — the long-awaited Metro Tunnel, along with its five new inner-city stations, opens to the public.

Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel opens today, a genuinely city-shaping moment. Beyond the engineering achievement, this unlocks network capacity, improves reliability, and dramatically enhances access to our Parkville campus...
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Check out our newly published paper in the Journal of Urban Mobility: lnkd.in/ehvJMWAa

The paper explores the multifaceted concept of #StreetVitality, increasingly viewed as a key indicator of high-performing urban environments.

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 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇳🇿
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In this newly published paper we examine equity concerns in the roll out of EV charging. Findings highlight need for policymakers to establish minimum charging accessibility standards for disadvantaged communities to support equitable charging planning

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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...

Transport, of course, is as much of behaviour change problem as a technology improvement problem à la the 'Avoid - Shift - Improve' framework share.google/tPy5Np1kBAY3...

Aside from transport electrification and the'$100 million Active Transport Fund, High-Speed and Inland Rail' the 'Net Zero Plan' (www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-chan...)
does not mention much about increased investment in public transport services as a carbon abatement strategy...

“Transition of the passenger vehicle fleet from [internal combustion engine] vehicles to EVs accounts for most of this change,” the government says.

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A pleasure as always to work with Monika Da Silva Pedroso, @nessawinston-ucd.bsky.social, and Orla Dingley

All of this calls for integrated rural mobility and energy strategies, better #schooltransport, sustainable rural transport investment, and targeted support for low-income households, to break these cycles of disadvantage.

- Half of rural areas lack public transport, leaving many children “trapped” locally.
- Cumulative energy and transport poverty compounds disadvantage, independent of household income.
- Girls living in rural areas showed the highest mental-health vulnerability.

Improving Child Wellbeing: The Effects of Transport and Residential Energy Poverty on Education and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents - Child Indicators Research This paper investigates whether transport and residential energy poverty affect the educational and mental health outcomes of children and young people in Ireland. Existing research on residential ene...

In our newly published paper it was particularly interesting from a transport planning perspective, that children in #rural areas, especially girls and low-income households, face unique educational and mental-health risks from poor transport access.

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'Deliver it now': Outer suburbs councils call for new stations to ease choked roads The outer Melbourne community where only 1.2 per cent of people use public transport.

Expanding rail is vital, but the quickest and most cost-effective way to tackle transport gaps in Melbourne’s low-density growth areas is a frequent bus network: reliable, every 10–15 mins, and easy to access. Ready years before new rail arrives.
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PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p

Agree that bikes and scooters have no place on footpaths, unless there is no other facilities/infrastructure for them to use, in which case what can they do, share roadspace with intimating motor vehicles?

....I said the CBD

If 'it is time for less carrot and more stick' and if action is needed, how about tackling car use and on street parking with the stick and allocate more space to pedestrians, wheelchair users and cyclists to move freely in the CBD.

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100% agree

Measuring the integration of micromobility and public transport – the development of a new network analysis tool The integration of micromobility and public transport is an increasingly relevant and desirable strategy to promote more sustainable alternatives to p…

In the context of ongoing discussions on whether micromobility devices should be allowed on public transport in Victoria, our paper explores what can be done on a network and stop level to make it easier for ebike and escooter riders to get to and from PT www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to see our work on transport and energy poverty cited extensively in this report by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) www.nesc.ie/publications...

It is a sign of things to come in the Upper Yarra Valley, and shows what can be achieved in a rural community to address transport related issues when participatory planning is encouraged.

Shuttle buses to help tourists around Warby A community led group, with support from Council, EV – Strengthening Communities (formerly Eastern Volunteers), CIRE Services and the University [...]

Delighted to see the success of this pilot project and to have contributed to its development via the Transport and Access Innovation Group.

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Based on the observations received from the students... the future of transport and urban planning in Melbourne is in good hands!

We discussed some interesting observations & analysis of what the area does well in terms of transport provision & what are the key opportunities for improvements that can be made from a TOD perspective

Really enjoyable afternoon today bringing our Transit-Oriented Development students on a field trip to Moonee Ponds.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of residential and transport energy poverty Historically, energy poverty research has been dominated by an analysis of residential energy use. More recently, efforts to capture the full extent o…

Happy to share our #new paper. It presents a thematic framework and meta analysis to facilitate the study and interpretation of research on multidimensional residential #energy and #transportpoverty together

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Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe.