ACTIVATE
ACTIVATE is a practical partnership model that delivers accelerated mode shift at scale – meaning a sustained shift of everyday trips from private cars to active travel, micromobility and public transport.
We're part of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
The problem
ACTIVATE will address critical knowledge and capability gaps that currently result in decision making without an evidence base, without robust evaluation and without an understanding of what works for who and why. These gaps are contributing to inefficient investment, erosion of community trust and license, and missed opportunities to transform safety, mobility, and population, environmental, and planetary health.
What ACTIVATE delivers
ACTIVATE is built around two integrated capabilities, designed to learn and improve with every project:
Community Activation Hubs
Place-based partnerships where governments, communities, industry and researchers co-design and trial real-world interventions. Each Hub generates robust evidence of what works, for whom and under what conditions – and creates the local ownership that turns interventions into lasting change.
ACTIVATE Insights
A decision-support platform that learns continuously from Hubs to model future mobility scenarios, prioritising investment toward the greatest impact across mobility, health, safety, equity, emissions and economic outcomes.
Together, they create a system that gets smarter with every project, and turns evidence into action faster than any traditional approach.
ACTIVATE delivers the gear change we need to enable people to travel in active, healthy, safe and sustainable ways.
Who we partner with
Built for the partners who shape how people move.
ACTIVATE is designed to deliver value wherever decisions are made about transport, urban form and community health. We partner with governments, industry, and community and not-for-profit organisations, translating ambition into measurable benefits for communities.
If your organisation is attempting to change the way people move, ACTIVATE is built to enable this.
About us
Australia’s leading active transport research group.
ACTIVATE is led by Healthy Active Cities at Monash University. We bring together an interdisciplinary team spanning transport and urban planning, public health, road safety, behavioural science, modelling and complex system. We are internationally recognised for whole-of-system approaches to the challenge of car dependency and our work has changed transport policy investment globally.
Ready to reimagine how people move?
We’re partnering with state and local governments, industry and community organisations to bring ACTIVATE to communities across Australia and globally. Talk to us about how the model can work for you.
Contact us at Ben.Beck@monash.edu