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Oil vulnerability in the Australian city

Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City, a 2005 paper by J Dodson and G Sipe, documents the precarious position Australians, particularly residents of outer suburban communities, will face with rising petrol prices. It provides a strong case for improvements to land use and transport planning to increase opportunites for people to choose walking, cycling and public transport.

This paper seeks to raise scholarly and public awareness of the distributional effects of rising fuel costs on urban areas and to invite governments to begin to contemplate appropriate policy responses to ensure equitable social outcomes under conditions of energy uncertainty.