Why the road-toll is rising

Australia’s road toll is rising, with more than 1300 fatalities in 2024 marking an annual increase of 6%, and a new study reveals the reasons why Australia won’t achieve its zero-fatalities vision by 2050.

Curbing car emissions

Australian’s lack of car efficiency standards – and long-standing fondness for ponderous UTES, massive SUVs and clunkers with modified exhausts – mean our transport emits far more carbon than it should.

China’s mobile security threat

Australia needs to list critical infrastructure and sectors from which suppliers of concern from China and Russia are prohibited, and that should start with electric cars.

Your car’s watching you

New research reveals serious privacy flaws in the data practices of new internet connected cars in Australia. It’s yet another reason why we need urgent reform of privacy laws.

Get off your phone

Holding and using a mobile phone while driving is against the law, but we all see drivers do it all the time while they hurtle through red lights, ignore green ones and wander all over the road, so what can be done to reduce the problem?

Electric car sales are slumping

Far from increasing exponentially, the sales of electric cars in Australia and elsewhere in the world are flatlining or falling due to reduced government incentives and concerns about resale values and fires.

Scoot off

Recent decisions by several Australian and New Zealand cities to discontinue shared e‑scooter services have again thrust the issue into the spotlight with their convenience for users balanced against the annoyance they cause to everyone else.

Rounding up the e-scooters

Dumped E-bikes and e-scooters litter our pavements, while in use they menace pedestrians and cause danger on the roads, but a new survey of their use in Melbourne offers some strategies to at least minimise the parking problem.

Hear your train a comin’

Use of public transport has declined since the COVID pandemic with more people working from home, so will Queensland’s reduction of fares to just 50 cents for the next six-months help boost passenger numbers?

Detecting drink drivers

Researchers at Edith Cowan University are developing new computer tracking technology that takes data from camera footage to detect whether a driver is impaired by alcohol or not when they get behind the wheel.

Sydney’s traffic sclerosis

Sydney’s fast growing population is generating traffic problems which the plethora of toll roads are doing nothing to alleviate, so what is the solution?

Four wheels bad, two wheels good

Encouraging more people to cycle rather than drive could involve ditching mandatory helmet laws.