THAT-Brisbane builds on THAT-Melbourne, a Planning Institute of Australia Award winning tool for measuring life-time health benefits from walking and cycling.

  • Project dates: 2022–2023

This Project extends THAT-Melbourne to the city of Brisbane to measure chronic disease impacts from replacing short car trips with walking, cycling or a combination of both. The tool shows physical activity-related health impacts of changes in travel behaviour and provides metrics for Life Years, Health Adjusted Life Years (HALYs) and incidence and mortality from chronic diseases. THAT-Melbourne can be freely accessed through the Australian Urban Observatory and once complete, THAT-Brisbane will similarly be made available.

THAT metrics can be used to for advocacy purposes and for understanding the health benefits that come from undertaking more transport related physical activity.

Funding: The Australia Prevention Partnership Centre

Key People

Lead researchers

Dr Lucy Gunn

Dr Lucy Gunn

Senior Research Fellow

Professor Melanie Davern

Professor Melanie Davern

Director Australian Urban Observatory

Dr Belen Zapata-Diomedi

Dr Belen Zapata-Diomedi

Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Alan Both

Dr Alan Both

Research Fellow

Steve Pemberton

Steve Pemberton

Research Assistant

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