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Prof Jeffrey Kenworthy

BSc. (Hons), PhD Murdoch.

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    • Role:
    • Professor, Sustainability
    • Department:
    • Curtin Sustainability Policy Institute
    • Location:
    • 3 Pakenham Street, Fremantle
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266

Jeff Kenworthy has spent 28 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.

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. He has also acted in an advisory capacity in the Premier's Department in WA. Prof Kenworthy has lectured internationally in 23 countries and over 50 cities to universities, government agencies and community organisations on city policy issues.

He was for three and a half years Project Director in ISTP 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.

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.

From September 1, 2007 until August 31, 2008 Professor Kenworthy was teaching at the Fachhochschule - Frankfurt am Main on a DAAD visiting professor fellowship. During this time he began the update of the Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport with the assistance of a grant given to him at the Fachhochschule- Frankfurt am Main from the Helen and William Mazer Foundation in New Jersey USA.

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Bruun, E, Schiller, P, and Kenworthy, J. 2010. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation: Policy, Planning and Implementation. London; Washington, DC: Earthscan.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Newman, P, and Kenworthy, J. 2011. Evaluating the Transport Sector's Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Consumption. In Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation - Transport Sector, eds Salter, Robert; Dhar, Subash; Newman, Peter, 7-23. Denmark: UNEP Riso Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable.
  • Perl , A, and Kenworthy, J. 2010. Canadian Cities at a Crossroads Between 'Passage' and 'Place'. In Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century, 4th Edition, eds Trudi Bunting, Pierre Filion and Ryan Walker, 191-209. Canada: Oxford University Press.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2010. Making Eco-Cities a Reality: Some Key Dimensions for Eco-City Development With Best Practice Examples. In Eco-City and Green Community: The Evolution of Planning Theory and Practice, eds Zhenghong Tang, 39-58. New York: NOVA Science Publishers, Inc..
  • Kenworthy, J. 2010. An International Comparative Perspective on Fast Rising Motorisation and Automobile Dependence in Developing Cities. In Urban Transport in the Developing World: Persepectives from the First Decade of the New Millennium, First Edition, eds H. Dimitriou and R. Gackenheimer, 71-112. London: Edward Elgar.
  • Scheurer, J, Newman, P, and Kenworthy, J. 2009. A moving target. In Melbourne Global Smart City, eds John Keeney, 128-135. Singapore: ETN-COM.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Townsend , C. 2009. Montreal's Dualistic Transport Character: Why Montreal Needs Upgraded Transit and Not More High Capacity Roads.. In Montreal at the Crossroads: Superhighways, The Turcot and the Environment, eds Gautier, P., Jaeger, J., Prince, J., 29-35. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2008. The World Oil Production Peak and Its Impact on Cities. In Review VI Five Platforms, Five Ecologies, 43-62. Austria: Verlag Anton Pustet.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2008. Energy Use and CO2 Production in The Urban Passenger Transport System of 84 International Cities: Findings and Policy Implications. In Urban Energy Transitions, 211-236. UK: Elsevier.
  • Townsend , C, and Kenworthy, J. 2007. A Comparative Perspective on Urban Transport and Emerging Environmental Problems in Middle-Income Cities. In Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back, 206-234. United Kingdom: Earthscan Publications.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Newman , P. 2007. Greening Urban Transportation. In State of the world, 2007, 24 Edition, 66-85. Washington, DC: Earthscan.
  • Newman, P, and Kenworthy, J. 2007. Greening Urban Transportation. In State of the World: Our Urban Future, 1 Edition, eds Linda Starke, 66-85. Washington DC, USA: Worldwatch Institute.
  • Newman , P, and Kenworthy, J. 2007. Sustainable Urban Form and Transport Policies. In Threats from car traffic to the quality of urban life: problems, causes and solutions, 293-311. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Newman, P, and Kenworthy, J. 2007. Sustainable Urban Form: Transport Infrastructure and Transport Policies. In Threats From Car Traffic to the Quality of Urban Life: Problems, Causes and Solutions, 1 Edition, eds Tommy Garling and Linda Steg, 293-311. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd..
  • Kenworthy, J. 2005. Sustainable Urban Transport: Developing sustainability rankings and clusters based on an international comparison of cities.. In Handbook of Sustainability Research. USA: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Townsend , C, Kenworthy, J, and Murray-Leach, R. 2005. Sustainable Urban Transport. In The natural advantage of nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and governance in the 21st Century, 371-386. United Kingdom: Earthscan.
  • Barter , P, Laube, F, and Kenworthy, J. 2003. Lessons from asia on sustainable urban transport. In Making Urban Transport Sustainable, 252-270. Australia: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2003. Automobile Dependence in Bangkok: An International Comparison with Implications for Planning Policies. In The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice, 61-76. United Kingdom: Earthscan Publications.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Kenworthy, J. 2011. Dreaming Detroit: Decline to renaissancee. Planetizen January 2011: 1-3.
  • Newman, P, Kenworthy, J, and Glazebrook, G. 2008. How to create exponential decline in car use in Australian Cities. Australian Planner 45(3): 17-19.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2008. A short research agenda for scholars of sustainabe cities. Journal of Urbanism 1: 9-10.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2008. An International Review of The Significance of Rail in Developing More Sustainable Urban Transport Systems in Higher Income Cities. World Transport Policy and Practice 14(2): 21-37.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2007. Urban Planning and Transport Paradigm Shifts for Cities of the Post-Petroleum Age. Journal of Urban Technology 14(2): 47-70.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2006. The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development. Environment and Urbanization 18(1): 67-85.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Newman, P. 2006. Urban Design to Reduce Automobile Dependence. Opolis 2(1): 35-52.
  • Matsuhashi, K, and Kenworthy, J. 2005. The Relationship between Transport Energy Consumption and Urban Population Density. City Planning Review 255: 20-23.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Laube, F. 2005. An International Comparative Perspective on Sustainable Transport in European Cities. European Spatial Research and Policy 12(1): 11-50.
  • Kenworthy, J, Lyons , T, and Cameron, I. 2004. Trends in vehicle kilometres of travel in world cities, 1960–1990: underlying drivers and policy responses. Transport Policy 11(3): 287-298.
  • Lyons , T, Dos Santos, F, and Kenworthy, J. 2003. An international urban air pollution model for the transportation sector. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 8(3): 159-167.
  • Kenworthy, J, Cameron, I, and Lyons , T. 2003. Understanding and predicting private motorised urban mobility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 8(4): 267-283.
  • Gang , H, and Kenworthy, J. 2002. Transport and Urban Form in Chinese Cities: An International Comparative and Policy Perspective with Implications for Sustainable Urban Transport in China. DISP 151: 4-14.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Townsend, C. 2002. An international comparative perspective on motorisation in urban China. Problems and Prospects.. IATSS Research 26(2): 99-109.
  • Kenworthy, J, and Laube, F. 2002. Travel Demand Management: The potential for enhancing urban rail opportunities & reducing automobile dependence in cities. World Transport Policy & Practice 8(3): 20-36.
  • Laube, F, and Kenworthy, J. 2002. Urban transport patterns in a global sample of cities & their linkages to transport infrastructure, land use, economics & environment. World Transport Policy & Practice 8(3): 5-19.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Klinger, T, Kenworthy, J, and Lanzendorf, M. 2010. Mobility Cultures in Urban Areas - A Comparative Analysis of German Cities. World Conference on Transport Research, 11/07/2010. Lisbon, Portugal: 12th World Conference on Transport Research.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2008. Urban Transport Sustainability. Metropolis 2008, 22/10/2008. Sydney: Metropolis Congress 2008.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2003. Energy Use in Urban Transport Systems: A Global Review. 3rd Biennial International Workshop, 24/09/2002. Porto Venere, Italy: SGE Ditoriali.
  • Kenworthy, J. 2003. Transport Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases in Urban Passenger Transport Systems: A Study of 84 Global Cities. The International Third Conference of the Regional Government Network for Sustainable Development, 17/09/2003. Notre Dame University: ..