Associate Professor Robbie Napper

Robbie Napper is an Industrial Designer, Researcher and Associate Professor with the Department of Design at Monash University. Robbie’s aim is to make sustainable transport the easiest choice to make. He pursues this goal by designing innovative vehicles and transport systems, studying a cross section of the built environment including bicycles, buses, the road rules, and how people use mobility systems.

Robbie's research outputs span practice and theory, from innovative vehicles and parking, to novel studies on the transition to sustainable modes of transport. He has created novel ways of studying bicycle use and guiding industry through the transition to renewables. See his full research profile here.

Examples of Robbie’s work include his leadership of a partnership with Volgren Australia Pty Ltd to develop the Optimus route bus - Australia’s top selling route bus. He developed The Wheelie bike parking device in response to a need for new bike parking hardware, and the Napper Cycling Typology to better understand, and represent, the different uses of bicycles.

Robbie is an active member of the Australasian College of Road Safety; US National Academy of Science’s Transportation Research Board: Bus Transit Systems and an Associate of Monash University's Public Transport Research Group. He rides all kinds of bicycles.

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