By Dr Hulya Gilbert

Journal articles

Gilbert H, 2026, '‘My neighbourhood would be a better community if the street was not a main road’: a multilevel perspective into children’s everyday mobilities', Children S Geographies, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2026.2720918

Kent JL; Delbosc A; Moylan E; Hossein-Rashidi L; Gilbert H, 2025, 'The Sector Effect: Differences between Public and Private School Travel in Australia', Transport Findings, 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.32866/001c.143589

Gilbert H; te Brömmelstroet M; Woodcock I, 2025, 'Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia', Australian Geographer, 56, pp. 425 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2025.2592320

Bennetts SK; Love J; Hokke S; Bennett C; Gilbert H; Treyvaud K; Williams R; Nicholson JM; Crawford SB, 2025, '‘They Take the Fear out of Failing’: Children's and Parents’ Experiences of the Risky Kids Program in Australia', Journal of Community Psychology, 53, pp. e70001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.70001

Duong Q; Gilbert H; Nguyen H, 2024, 'A novel framework for crash frequency prediction: Geographic support vector regression based on agent-based activity models in Greater Melbourne', Accident Analysis and Prevention, 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2024.107747

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2024, 'Is School Travel too Complex to Handle Without a Car? Assessing “Child-Friendliness” as a Pathway to Reducing Private Car use for Children’s Transport', Urban Policy and Research, 42, pp. 245 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2024.2363398

Gilbert H; te Brömmelstroet M, 2024, 'Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children', Children S Geographies, 22, pp. 241 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2270444

Gilbert H; Lanng DB; Wind S; Allan A, 2023, 'Understanding the complexity of children’s everyday mobilities: non-instrumental aspects in sustainable transport and planning policy making in Australia', Applied Mobilities, 8, pp. 341 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2022.2071060

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2022, 'Local Living and Travel Time based Urbanism', Urban Policy and Research, 40, pp. 304 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2077327

Dühr S; Gilbert H; Peters S, 2021, 'Spatial Data Requirements for Metropolitan Spatial Planning in South Australia: Challenges for Evidence-informed Policy-making and Monitoring', Planning Practice and Research, 36, pp. 530 - 552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.1901397

Gilbert H; Whitzman C; Pieters J; Allan A, 2018, 'Children's everyday freedoms: Local government policies on children and sustainable mobility in two Australian states', Journal of Transport Geography, 71, pp. 116 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.07.007

Gilbert H; Whitzman C; Pieters J; Allan A, 2017, 'Children and sustainable mobility: small feet making smaller carbon footprints', Australian Planner, 54, pp. 234 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2018.1480500

Conference Papers

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2024, 'Beyond Proximity: a child-friendliness index for local living policies in Australasian cities', Adelaide, presented at Australasian Transport Research Forum, Adelaide, 28 September 2024 - 30 September 2024, https://australasiantransportresearchforum.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ATRF2022_Resubmission_57.pdf

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2021, 'What is a 20-minute neighbourhood and what might make us all care?', Melbourne, presented at State of Australasian Cities, Melbourne, 01 December 2021 - 03 December 2021, https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2022-06/apo-nid316549.pdf

Gilbert H, 2019, 'Children’s rights in local government transport policies: getting it right through shifting conventions', in 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 30 November - 5 December 2019, Perth, Australia, Perth, presented at State of Australian Cities Conference, Perth, 30 November 2019 - 05 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.25916/5ef18deb4ef9e

Gilbert H; Pieters J; Allan A, 2018, 'Families, children and car: The environmental cost of chauffeuring children', in Atrf 2018 Australasian Transport Research Forum 2018 Proceedings

Gilbert H, 2017, 'Unlocking the social and environmental benefits of child friendly places through active travel and active play', Adelaide, presented at State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, 28 November 2017 - 30 November 2017, https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2018-06/apo-nid178796.pdf

Reports

Kent J; Hossein-Rashidi L; Moylan E; Delbosc A; Gilbert H, 2026, The Australian School Travel Survey 2025, University of Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.25910/25pj-2816, https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/34817

Working Papers

Crommelin L; Denham T; Troy L; Harrison J; Gilbert H; Dühr S; Pinnegar S, Understanding the lived experience and benefits of regional cities, Center for Open Science, http://dx.doi.org10.31235/osf.io/kn6tm

Media

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2024, Rethinking the school drop off: an effective and lasting approach, The Fifth Estate, https://thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spinifex/rethinking-the-school-drop-off-an-effective-and-lasting-approach/

Gilbert H; te Brömmelstroet M, 2023, Our children are victims of road violence. We need to talk about the deadly norms of car use, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/our-children-are-victims-of-road-violence-we-need-to-talk-about-the-deadly-norms-of-car-use-214476

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2023, Urban sprawl is ‘not a dirty word’? If the priority is to meet all kids’ needs, it should be, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/urban-sprawl-is-not-a-dirty-word-if-the-priority-is-to-meet-all-kids-needs-it-should-be-208670

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2023, 20-minute neighbourhoods are about more than proximity, The Fifth Estate, https://thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spinifex/20-minute-neighbourhoods-are-about-more-than-proximity/

Gilbert H, 2022, Uber plans a kids service to replace mum and dad’s taxi. What’s wrong with that? Plenty., The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/uber-plans-a-kids-service-to-replace-mum-and-dads-taxi-whats-wrong-with-that-plenty-196491

Clements R; Taylor E; Gilbert H, 2022, Japan’s Old Enough and Australia’s Bluey remind us our kids are no longer ‘free range’ – but we can remake our neighbourhoods, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/japans-old-enough-and-australias-bluey-remind-us-our-kids-are-no-longer-free-range-but-we-can-remake-our-neighbourhoods-187698

Gilbert H; Allan A; Whitzman C; Pieters J, 2018, Children in the car era: bad for them and the planet, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/children-in-the-car-era-bad-for-them-and-the-planet-105377

Other

Gilbert H; Woodcock I, 2024, Making child-friendliness visible: A planning tool for reducing car dependence, Planning Institute of Australia, https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.T2024121200016691031773838

Gilbert H; Woodcock I; Mepham D, 2024, We Can’t Have Both: Parking or a Child-Friendly Neighbourhood?, Planning Institute of Australia, https://www.planning.org.au/pia/news-resources/new-planner.aspx

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