Cycling Rachel Smith

Cycling Rachel Smith

Rachel is the Founder and Creative Director of ?Cycling Super Highways? a vision for 7m wide cycleways completely separated from parked and moving cars.

Rachel is the Co-Creator of Lazy Sunday Cycle a social media initiative to encourage anyone to ride a bicycle for fun.

Rachel is an articulate writer and her work is regularly published by Crikey, This Big City and Cycle Brisbane as well as an array of magazines, journals and websites in the UK, Australia and USA.

Rachel is a guest lecturer at the University of Queensland lecturing in urban and non-motorised transport planning for the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management.

Rachel is a Principal Transport Planner with AECOM, an international technical services consultancy, based in Brisbane and has spent 12 years working in cycle planning, sustainable and public transport strategy development, travel behaviour change and travel demand management in the private and public sectors in the UK and Australia.

Within two years of entering the transport planning profession Rachel was retained as a UK Government Advisor on three national transport expert panels for 6 years developing best practice transport projects working with schools, employers and tourist destinations. Rachel has managed a number of innovative and best practice projects and written toolkits published by the UK Government and associated agencies.

Rachel won the 2003 CIHT BP International Road Safety Award for her school travel plan projects and was a 2004 International Walk to School Week Award runner-up for her theatre in education programs. In 2005 Rachel worked with Disney Playhouse TV to develop a film about walking to school and in 2008 Rachel was awarded the AITPM Janet Brash Memorial Scholarship (see Cycling Super Highways page).

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