About us
Australia’s leading active transport research group
ACTIVATE is led by Healthy Active Cities at Monash University. We are Australia’s leading active transport group, conducting interdisciplinary research in partnership with government, industry, not-for-profit organisations and communities to support healthy, equitable and sustainable cities.
We are internationally recognised for our interdisciplinary, whole-of-system approach to the challenge of car dependency and rapidly increasing the safety and uptake of healthy and sustainable modes of travel.
Our research has informed over $350 million of investment in safe active transport infrastructure and has changed policy and practice globally.
Expertise
In-house, the unit brings together interdisciplinary expertise in public health, transport, planning, behavioural science, modelling, complex systems thinking and community engagement. Within ACTIVATE, we bring together an even larger array of cutting-edge interdisciplinary capabilities spanning the breadth of Monash University, including:
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
- Monash University Accident Research Centre
- Monash AI Institute
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of IT
- Monash Architecture, Design and Art
- Faculty of Business and Economics