Jeff Kenworthy

JEFF KENWORTHY BSc. (Hons), PhD Murdoch Jeff Kenworthy has spent 33 years in the transport and urban planning field and currently teaches courses and supervises postgraduate students in the city policy and urban sustainability fields. He is co-author (with Peter Newman, Felix Laube and others) of a number of books. These include: • Cities and Automobile Dependence: An International Sourcebook, a major study comparing 32 cities in Asia, North America, Australia and Europe; • Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence; • An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities, 1960-1990. • Back On Track: Rethinking Transport Policy in Australia and New Zealand. • Winning Back the Cities • An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation: Policy, Planning and Implementation As well, he is author and co-author of over 200 other book chapters and journal publications in the area of city policy. He has extensive experience in the areas of compact housing developments, public transport systems and sustainable transport policy and has worked as a consultant for local, state and federal governments in Australia, as well as private organisations and the World Bank. Professor Kenworthy has worked for Swiss Federal Railways for 7 months designing a concept for a new passenger information system which SBB subsequently adopted. He has also acted in an advisory capacity in the Premier's Department in WA. Dr Kenworthy has lectured internationally in 25 countries and 71 cities to universities, government agencies and community organisations on city policy issues. He was for three and a half years Project Director for a large project called the Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport for the International Union (Association) of Public Transport in Brussels (UITP). This study includes 100 developed and developing cities in every part of the world and includes comparative data on urban land use, transport, economics and the environment of cities. He has an international reputation in the field of benchmarking of cities on transportation and land use patterns on the basis of their automobile dependence, with a focus on the importance of urban rail systems. Jeff Kenworthy received the Australian Centenary Medal from the Australian Prime Minister’s Office for service to planning and sustainability in relation to public transport and urban form.