A tool that gives communities and decision-makers a clear and shared understanding of pedestrian environments.

“YourWalk is designed for modular expansion and open-source compatibility, creating a framework that can be replicated by other councils and scaled across jurisdictions” – Professor Nicole Kalms

The YourWalk project extends the XYX Lab and CrowdLab's previous collaborations with Casey City Council, including the Women’s Safety Audit Tool (2019–2021) and YourGround (2020). Building on these successes, YourWalk will pilot a spatially enabled framework for assessing and improving pedestrian environments by analysing intersecting datasets to reveal where barriers to safe and comfortable mobility exist.

The innovation of YourWalk lies in translating these insights into practical, user-friendly tools. First, a public-facing route-planning application will recommend safe, accessible and climate-comfortable walking routes, particularly for vulnerable users such as women, older adults, people with disabilities and carers with prams. Second, a custom analytics dashboard will provide Casey City Council officers with intuitive visualisations of lighting, accessibility and heat data, enabling them to identify infrastructure gaps, model options and prioritise targeted interventions.

• Investigators

  • • Professor Nicole Kalms
    • Professor Gene Bawden
    • Associate Professor Jess Berry
    • Isabella Webb
    • Dr Fatemeh Roohafza
    Monash Art, Design and Architecture
  • • Anthony Aisenberg
    Crowdlab

• Partner organisation

  • Casey City Council

• Funded by

  • Casey Communities Living Lab

• Undertaken within

  • XYX Lab – Gender + Place