Title
Strengthening Australia's suburbs: advancing urban planning knowledge to limit oil vulnerability and build household resilience
ARC funding type
Discovery
Chief Investigators
A/Prof Jago Dodson; A/Prof Neil Sipe; Prof BJ Gleeson
Duration
2010 - 2012
Project summary
This project advances the previous work of the authors in the area of 'oil vulnerability' and Australian cities. The project seeks to better describe and assess patterns of household exposure to higher oil prices and the socio-economic and spatial distributional consequences of this vulnerability. The project will involve better spatial description of the problem of oil vulnerability while also adding new factors into the assessment of household exposure, such as motor vehicle technology, fuel efficiency and fleet turnover. The project is presently constructing a new method that calibrates the transport dimensions of oil vulnerability against fuel-efficiency weighted measures of household travel demand, including the journey-to-work, for Brisbane. The research will be reported through URP papers, conference presentations and journal articles.
Status
Current