Mobility Design Lab

The role of the bicycle in sustainable transport. Of particular note here are studies that engage with industrial design studio practice to manipulate the intrinsic and socially constructed properties of bicycles to make them are more acceptable transport mode choice in low cycling mode share cultures like Australia.

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Dr Robbie Napper and Associate Professor Selby Coxon
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

Design projects that investigate the safe design and use of assistive technology such as; the motorised mobility scooter (MMS) and in particular examines some contradictions and ambiguities associated with this increasingly popular form of mobility. This project will have shared supervision between the Mobility Design Lab and Monash University Accident Research Centre.

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Associate Professor Selby Coxon and Prof. Jennie Oxley
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

Design research that seeks to address improved accessibility to public transport from those who have physical impairment. This project will have shared supervision between the Mobility Design Lab and Monash Institute of Rail Technology.

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Associate Professor Selby Coxon and TBA - Monash Institute of Rail Technology
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

Design project seeks to address how pedestrians will navigate safely a road network dominated by Autonomous Vehicles. How will the man machine interface be effective between robot and pedestrians and active transport users?

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Associate Professor Selby Coxon, Prof Jennie Oxley and Dr Steve O'Hern
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

The future of human powered logistics. We invite proposals that use industrial design studio practice to carry out research on cyclelogistics. These may engage with transferring technology from one culture to another or developing new vehicles, or other approaches to this problem.

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Dr Robbie Napper and Associate Professor Selby Coxon
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

The number and frequency of home delivery services has grown enormously over recent years, accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the ubiquity of digital platforms that serve a wide variety of needs from food takeaway services to goods and services. The design of vehicles and objects to facilitate these needs has largely been iterative rather than considered and so the Mobility Design Lab welcomes research that addresses these issues that underpin safe and reliable delivery services from micro mobility to delivery trucks.

• Scholarship may be available
• Open call
• Supervisors: Associate Professor Selby Coxon and Dr Robbie Napper
• Undertaken within: Mobility Design Lab

Under COVID-19 lockdowns, bike sales have been booming. Quiet streets and more time at home have opened a new opportunity for bicycles in our otherwise car-dominated culture. In our recent analysis, my colleagues and I looked at the bikes people ride for transport, and we found more than half of them aren’t well equipped for this purpose.

Public transport is essential because it's by far the most spatially efficient way to move large numbers of people about the city. However, the notion of sharing confined public spaces for potentially extended periods of time will play heavily on the minds of a public learning to maintain physical distance.