The Micromobility Research Partnership (MRP™) is an independent research body, born out of a partnership between academics and researchers across Australia and New Zealand.
The MRP™ will conduct research on sustainable transport to identify and promote priority pathways to reduce global transport emissions, and other topics including:
MRP™ continues to grow its academic collaborations globally with the aim to educate and inform towards a less emitting transport future.
We therefore invite academics, researchers and industry experts in the field of sustainable transportation and micromobility to make contact to join our journey, via collaborations@MRP.com
Managing Partner of Micromobility Research Partnership™
Mr Ferdinand Balfoort is a global professional advisor and academic researcher in the areas of ESG, sustainable transport and micromobility as well as governance, compliance and financial and sustainable impact reporting. Since 2016 Ferdinand has worked on a range of green technology/ ESG projects globally, both for listed and unlisted clients, and has extended his financial accounting and audit expertise to sustainability accounting, standards, modeling, and carbon certification. He has project managed complex sustainable transportation and logistics projects with multinationals and university partners, including at Tata Steel, Blue Scope Steel, SkyNRG/KLM, Rio Tinto, as well as EU and Asian government agencies and research institutions (CSIRO (Australia), Callaghan Institute (NZ), Khazanah Nasional Bhd (Malaysia). He leads the Micromobility Research Partnership™ (www.theMRP.org), a Not For Profit research foundation. He is the sustainable transport advisor to Beam Technology (APAC), where he develops sustainability frameworks, carbon emission models and sustainable accounting approaches for the micromobility sector, to achieve a measurable reduction in traditional fossil fuelled transport modes GHG emissions. In addition, Ferdinand is carbon certification lead for Urban Analytica, a University of Melbourne transport technology spin off focussing on applied telematics and IoT technology to reduce transport emissions.
Academic appointment at Universitas Gadjah Mad
Alyas Widita holds an academic appointment at Universitas Gadjah Mada, where he builds on his expertise to deliver research-driven insights and educational programs in urban design, mobility, and the built environment. His recent published works have explored these topics, from an impact evaluation of new transit opening, the case of the MRT Jakarta, to exploring the effects of emerging technologies on present and future urban landscape in developing economies. As a practice-oriented researcher, Alyas has participated in multiple international research collaborations on projects funded by the World Bank, Bank Indonesia, Georgia Department of Transportation (United States), among others. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology (’20).
Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow
Dr Abraham Leung is the Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow at Cities Research Institute Griffith University. Working closely with micromobility partners, he is currently developing tourism-focused Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) trials that facilitate intermodal and multi-service integration. With a solid background in urban planning and spatial data sciences, his research currently focuses on microtransport innovation, governance and also impacts in the Asia Pacific and Europe. His research has been published in numerous highly ranked academic journals and media outlets.
Professor
Stephen Greaves is a Professor in Transport Management in the Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies (ITLS) within the Business School at the University of Sydney. Research interests include the health, environmental, and safety impacts of transport, micro-mobility, active travel, new vehicle technologies including electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, and innovative travel data collection methods using the latest technologies. He has ARC, NHMRC and other competitive grant success, has advised several PhD students to completion and publishes in a range of mediums. Stephen also provides transport consulting services to government and industry and provides regular media commentary on contemporary transport policy issues. From 2014-17, Stephen served as the Director of the Business School Doctoral studies program.
The University of Auckland's Transportation Research Centre (TRC) is dedicated to conducting research that covers all aspects of Transportation. We explore a broad range of transportation and mobility research including transport safety, construction materials and infrastructure design and asset management, to traffic systems, AI and advanced modelling, new transport technologies, user behaviours, and public transit.
The MRP™ will conduct collaborative research with academic institutions, automotive consumer associations, NGO and professional advisory firms on sustainable transport, in order to identify and promote priority science based pathways to reduce global transport emissions and other topics aligned to contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG)