Media Reports
GAMUT media reports are listed below in reverse chronological order.
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2009 GAMUT Media Reports |
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| 13/06/09 | The costs of the State Government's proposed extension to the South Morang railway line | Nick Low |
| 25/05/09 | Feasibility report into the potential benefits of reinstating a passenger train to Mildura | Bill Russell |
| 16/03/08 | Statistics: increasing children's physical activity rates by encouraging them to walk or ride their bikes to school | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 4/02/08 | Governance workshops on Victoria's public transport | Bill Russell |
| 27/01/08 | Insufficient governmental investment of public transport | Bill Russell |
2008 GAMUT Media Reports |
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| 21/12/08 | Effects of the financial crisis on major infrastructure projects | Bill Russell |
| 15/12/08 | The new Victorian Transport Plan For further information, please see the Media Releases: Speakers named for GAMUT Transport Plan Forum and What will the Brumby Transport Plan mean for Melbourne? |
Nick Low |
| 10/12/08 | The government's recent Victorian Transport Plan For further information, please see the following Media Releases: Speakers named for GAMUT Transport Plan Forum and What will the Brumby Transport Plan mean for Melbourne? |
Nicholas Low |
| 9/12/07 | Public transport developments in Melbourne For further information, please see the following Media Releases: Speakers named for GAMUT Transport Plan Forum and What will the Brumby Transport Plan mean for Melbourne? |
Bill Russell (Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport) |
| 8/12/08 | Public transport developments in Melbourne | Bill Russell (Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport) |
| 3/12/08 | Melburnians want better public transport, not freeways, in the lead up to the release of a forthcoming State Government transport plan | Nick Low |
| 24/11/08 | The east-west road tunnel | Nick Low |
| 11/11/08 | The Government is unlikely to commit to a train line to Doncaster in the short term | Bill Russell |
| 29/10/08 | Urban design's influence on community safety For further information, please see the following Media Release |
Carolyn Whitzman |
| 15/10/08 | City cyclists and injuries For further information, please see the following Media Release |
Nick Low |
| 7/10/08 | Knox Council's infrastructure | Bill Russell |
| 1/10/08 | The Victorian Premier's proposals on infrastructure | Nick Low |
| 22/09/08 | Planning and safety policies of Swanston Street in light of the recent cycling fatality | Nick Low |
| 21/09/08 | Car-pooling | Bill Russell |
| 6/09/08 | Public transport and Melbourne 2030 | Nick Low and John Stone |
| 5/09/08 | Public transport | Nick Low |
| 4/09/08 | Urban planning and social behaviour | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 28/08/08 | RACV plan for a road user charge | Bill Russell |
| 21/08/08 | Quality of public transport | Nick Low |
| 20/08/08 | The state of Connex services | Nick Low |
| 22/07/08 | Melbourne's rail system and infrastructure planning for climate change | Nick Low and Bill Russell |
| 20/06/08 | The relationship of petrol prices and public transport | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 16/06/08 | Announcement of a new year 12 school to be opened up in the CBD | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 9/06/08 | The urban planning and design factors that foster violence For further information, please see the Media Release |
Carolyn Whitzman |
| 4/06/08 | Report on violence prevention in big cities For further information, please see the Media Release |
Carolyn Whitzman |
| 2/06/08 | Carolyn Whitzman is interviewed in relation to her work on community safety ahead of her book launch tomorrow. The new book by Dr Carolyn Whitzman, 'The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender and Violence Prevention', is available from the University Bookshop: www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au |
Carolyn Whitzman |
| 28/05/08 | Rising road congestion | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 15/05/08 | Managing urban sprawl Go to The Age website article |
Kevin O'Connor |
| 5/05/08 | Recent plans to upgrade Melbourne's road network | Nicholas Low and Paul Mees |
| 4/04/08 | How transport systems can be made more environmentally sound | Nicholas Low |
| 4/04/08 | Transport systems in Melbourne For more information also visit uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_5080.html |
Bill Russell |
| 3/04/08 | Sir Rod Eddington's report Investing in Transport | Bill Russell |
| 3/04/08 | Whether the Eddington transport strategy will reduce traffic congestion | Nicholas Low and Paul Mees |
| 3/04/08 | On the transport report by Sir Rod Eddington | Nicholas Low |
| 2/04/08 | Departure of the Ticketing Transport Authority chief | Paul Mees |
| 2/04/08 | Transport planning | Bill Russell |
| 1/04/08 | Imminent reporting of two major inquiries into Melbourne transport issues | Nicholas Low |
| 6/03/08 | Increased congestion in the city | Bill Russell |
| 5/03/08 | Transport availability on the city's fringe For forther information view the report by Bill Russell: "Who decides infrastructure priorities? Federal funding for urban transport in the time of climate change" |
Bill Russell |
| 19/02/08 | The neglect of public transport systems | Bill Russell |
| 5/02/08 | Interview about the Melbourne public transport system in response to the proposal of a congestion tax | Bill Russell |
| 26/01/08 | Alternative suggestions to the planned Bay dredging | Bill Russell |
2007 GAMUT Media Reports |
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| 09/10/07 | The new suburb Aurora in the Epping area | Bill Russell |
| 19/09/07 | The potential for a car-free CBD | Nicholas Low |
| 09/09/07 | A proposed car-free day in the City of Melbourne | Nicholas Low |
| 16/08/07 | "Get our trains back on the rails" | Bill Russell |
| 04/08/07 | The inadequacies of the Melbourne train system | Nicholas Low |
| 04/08/07 | The increasing cycling in the Melbourne CBD | Nicholas Low |
| 02/08/07 | Funding for urban rail systems | Bill Russell |
| 21/06/07 | The importance of helping others in trouble, in the wake of the triple shooting in Melbourne this week | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 11/06/07 | Anne Kavanagh, Susan Sawyer and Carolyn Whitzman (Architecture, Building and Planning) feature in an article on locality and health in the population. For more information, please see: uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_4225.html | Janine Sim-Jones (Marketing and Communications) |
| 30/06/07 | Children using bicycles and public transport to get to school | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 28/06/07 | What local government and communities can do to encourage children to become independently mobile and lead a more active lifestyle | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 30/03/07 | Ways of reducing carbon emissions created by transport needs | Nicholas Low |
| 27/03/07 | Bill Mitchell (Miegunyah Visiting Fellow) is mentioned for his involvement in the US $1 billion redevelopment of Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Australian Financial Review |
| 17/02/07 | Discussion of Paul Mees' assessment of the current public transport crisis in Melbourne | Nicholas Low |
| 8/01/07 | Research finding that the benefits of childhood obesity programs will not be seen for at least 10 years | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 2/01/07 | Key to tackling childhood obesity is to design urban environments that promote walking and an active lifestyle | Carolyn Whitzman |
2006 GAMUT Media Reports |
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| 29/11/06 | Anti-obesity strategies for children | Carolyn Whitzman |
| 26/11/06 | New rail lines in outer suburbs crucial to easing traffic chaos | Nicholas Low |
| 23/11/06 | Rowville rail link essential: University of Melbourne transport research centre | Bill Russell |
| 23/11/06 | South Morang and Aurora rail extensions needed now, Melbourne Uni transport centre | Bill Russell |
| 26/11/06 | Make East Doncaster railway state's top priority: Melbourne Uni transport centre | Bill Russell |
| 23/11/06 | Current urban transport system will lead to economic and environmental meltdown | Nicholas Low |
| 23/11/06 | What Public Transport Needs is Strong Leadership | Nicholas Low |
| 23/11/06 | Melbourne must invest intelligently in new rail facilities | Bill Russell |
| 23/11/06 | Transport's Catch 22 | Nicholas Low |
| 23/11/06 | Is there a scientific consensus on climate change and what is causing it? | Nicholas Low |
| 23/11/06 | Clean green transport, where is the strategy? | Nicholas Low and Leigh Glover |
| 28/06/06 | The feasibility of a Rowville rail project | Bill Russell |
| 19/05/06 | The Victorian Government's transport plan: a genuine step forward in transport planning, but its implementation needs continuous critical scrutiny and further modification | Nicholas Low |
| 14/04/06 | The inequalities of tolling and the reduction of public transport fares for some classes of travellers | Bill Russell |
| 15/03/06 | Need for alternative transport options for Rowville, Scoresby and Mulgrave residents | Bill Russell |
| 13-15/03/06 | Need for a new rail system to avoid traffic gridlock on the Eastern Freeway | Bill Russell |
| 12/03/06 | Free public transport's viability and the need to study how pricing changes could reduce congestion and increase public transport use | Bill Russell |
| 10/03/06 | Need for new rail lines for the outer suburbs to tackle the growing road congestion problem | Bill Russell |
| 09/03/06 | Plans to fix Melbourne's car crisis | Nicholas Low |
| 14/02/06 | The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index and whether the size of a city impacts on a person's happiness | Nicholas Low |
| 13/02/06 | Associate Professor Nicholas Low and Professor Bill Russell will work with an international team to study effective public transport models | Nicholas Low and Bill Russell |
| - | Melbourne's public transport needs and different models which could enable a world-class transport system. | Nicholas Low |
| 24/01/06 | A transport system dominated by a car will be a problem environmentally and economically; large-scale changes to Melbourne's public transport system are needed | Nicholas Low |
| 23/01/06 | Public transport: The University of Melbourne is housing a new $4.3 million transport research centre, the Australasian Research Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport | Nicholas Low |
| 14/01/06 | The response by nations to reducing greenhouse gas emissions | Nicholas Low |