Carey Curtis is Professor of City Planning and Transport and Director of the research network Urbanet. She is also Guest Professor at K2 The Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport / Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests cover land use planning and transport planning, including a focus on city form and structure, transit oriented development, personal travel behaviour, accessibility planning, institutional barriers to sustainable transport, governance and transport policy. She has published over 90 papers, book chapters and books and has won five Australian Research Council research grants, and is a member of the European Union Concerted Research Action: TU1002 ‘Accessibility Instruments for Planning Practice in Europe’. Carey is Managing Editor of the International Editorial Board of the Journal ‘Urban Policy and Research’, and on the international editorial boards of the Journal of Transport Land Use and the Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable Development. Carey is a member of the Planning Institute Australia and the UK Royal Town Planning Institute. Carey was elected to the inaugural Board of the World Society of Transport and Land Use Research in 2011.
Experience
–present
Professor of City Planning and Transport, Curtin University
Education
2006
Curtin University, PhD/ Town Planning & Transport Planning
1987
Oxford Polytechnic, Post Grad Diploma Urban Planning
1981
University of Reading, Masters - Rural Planning
1979
Middlesex Polytechnic, BSc (Hons) Geography
Publications
2017
Performance Measures for Public Transport Accessibility: learning from international practice, Journal of Transport and Land Use
2017
Planning transport infrastructure: Examining the politics of transport planning in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, Urban Policy and Research
2016
Planning for Public Transport Accessibility: An International Sourcebook, Routledge
2016
Strengths and Weaknesses of Accessibility Instruments in Planning Practice: Technological Rules based on Experiential Workshops, European Planning Studies
2015
Institutional practices and planning for walking: a focus on built environment audits, Planning Theory and Practice
2015
Built Environment and Children’s Travel to School, Transport Policy
2015
Designing TOD precincts: accessibility and travel patterns, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
2012
Institutional Barriers for Sustainable Transport, Ashgate, Aldershot
2012
The Challenge of delivering the 'D' in Transit Oriented Development: Examining the Town Planning contribution, Journal of Transport and Land Use Vol 5, No 3
2010
Planning for Sustainable Accessibility: Developing tools to aid discussion and decision-making, Progress in Planning Vol 74
2009
Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen , Ashgate, Aldershot
2008
The evolution of the TOD model for low density cities: A case study of Perth’s new railway corridor, Planning Practice and Research Vol. 23, No. 3
2006
Network City: Retrofitting the Perth Metropolitan Region to Facilitate Sustainable Travel, Urban Policy and Research Vol 24 (2)