Dr Matthew Burke - Griffith University

Site Degrees

photo of Dr Matthew Burke BPD (hons) PhD

Research Fellow

Urban Research Program¹⁰, Griffith School of Environment¹¹

Research Expertise

Household travel behaviour; non-motorised travel; public transport; transport, physical activity and health; transport policy and planning; travel survey design and implementation; urban morphology; land use planning; gated communities; Australian cities; Asian cities.

Selected Publications

Journals

Burke, M. and A.L. Brown 2007, Distances People Walk for Transport, Road & Transport Research, FORTHCOMING
Burke, M. 2002, Fortress Dystopia: representations of gated communities in contemporary fictions, Journal of American and Comparative Culture, Vol 24, No 1, pp115-122.
Burke, M. and Sebaly, C. 2001/2002, Locking in the Pedestrian? the privatised streets of gated communities, World Transport Policy and Practice, Vol 7, No 4, pp67-74.

Book Chapters

Burke, M. 2003, Barring the way? impacts of gated communities on pedestrian trip making, in Tolley, R. (ed.) Sustainable Transport, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge.

Conference Papers

Burke, M. 2006. "Walking in Subtropical Australia: measurements of pedestrian behaviour in Brisbane and the problem of limited data." Presented at Walk21 Melbourne ??? 7th International Conference on Walking & Liveable Communities. 23-25 October 2006, Melbourne, Australia.
Burke, M., N. Sipe, R. Evans, and D. Mellifont. 2006. "Climate, Geography and the Propensity to Walk: environmental factors and walking trip rates in Brisbane." Presented at 29th Australasian Transport Research Forum. Gold Coast, Australia: PATREC.
Burke, M. 2005. "Planning by rating scheme: genealogy, scales of application and ways forward for the formalised rating approach to urban development approval." Presented at 2nd State of Australian Cities Conference, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2005, Brisbane, Queensland.
Burke, M. and A.L. Brown. 2005c. "Using accessibility analysis techniques to rate the residential travel performance of land use developments." Presented at 2nd State of Australian Cities Conference, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2005, Brisbane, Queensland.
Burke, M. and A.L. Brown. 2005b. "Rating the Transport Sustainability of Transit Oriented Developments: will developments achieve objectives?" Presented at Transit Oriented Development: making it happen, 5-8 July 2005, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Burke, M. 2001, The Pedestrian Behaviour of Residents in Gated Communities, paper delivered to Australia: Walking the 21st Century: International Walking Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 20-22 February 2001.
Kumarasuriyar, M. and M. Burke. 1998. "Problems, Challenges and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption Patterns in Urban Areas of Small Island Developing States of the South Pacific." in UNCHS (Habitat) Regional Conference on Sustainable Consumption Patterns in Asian Cities. Fukuoka, Japan: UN-HABITAT.