Your Move is a free program run by the Department of Transport that supports individuals, schools and workplaces to start swapping a few car trips each week for walking, riding a bike or catching public transport.

Our website supports the program by providing individuals with handy tips and information to find out what's on in their local area and discover what other people are doing to get more active as part of their daily routine.

The website also helps schools and workplaces plan activities, write stories about what they did, find out what others are doing and earn points to redeem for some great rewards.

Read our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section to find out the essential elements of the program and website. If you can't find the answer you're looking for, please contact the Your Move team.

For a full description of the recent updates we've made to the website, click here

Background

Prior to the development of the present Your Move program, The Department of Transport (DOT) developed and delivered several successful iterations of Travel Behaviour Change (TBC) programs.

Starting over 20 years ago as TravelSmart and evolving and growing into Living Smart, then Your Move, our approach of delivering highly localised, personalised information, one-on-one conversations and ongoing feedback has been recognised and replicated around the world.

Over this time we have supported over 500,000 individuals as well as hundreds of dedicated active transport champions across Western Australia to encourage students, co-workers and local residents to choose more active ways to get around.

Read below for more information about past programs.

History of past programs

TravelSmart program (1997-2015)

The TravelSmart program was first developed in Perth, Western Australia in 1997 by DOT in conjunction with SocialData, in response to the Metropolitan Transport Strategy which recognised that planners could not continue the ‘predict and provide’ model of delivering transport outcomes (Department of Transport, 1995). TravelSmart was a purpose built program for households, using an evidence based social marketing methodology, which applied personalised phone based coaching, during which participants talked through barriers and benefits, social norms, and enabled social diffusion to bring about TBC in the community (Baudains, Dingle, & Styles, 2002).

Living Smart Households program (2007 – 2012)

The Living Smart concept was a reaction to a new emphasis on sustainability and the project started it’s life as a community based environmental education project (Sheehy & Dingle, 2004).

In response to the results from the Living Smart community courses, DoT repositioned its TravelSmart household program to test and expand the reach of behaviour change methodology to include sustainability issues in the household setting (Ashton-Graham & Newman, 2013).

Two demonstration projects were subsequently delivered in the local government areas of Joondalup and Mandurah during 2007/2008. The Living Smart Households program combined the successful goal setting techniques from the community courses, with the innovative personalised phone based coaching calls pioneered in the TravelSmart programs.

This combination helped guide participants through difficult topics such as their monthly meter reading results, and enabled participants to set new goals with their phone coach towards reducing their electricity, water and car use (Ashton-Graham & Newman, 2013).

ActiveSmart program (2007 – 2011)

In 2007 the TravelSmart methodology was applied to physical activity, and the ActiveSmart program was jointly developed by the DSR and DoT, primarily designed to increase people’s participation in all forms of physical activity, including active transport (UrbanTrans, 2012).

The initiative for this project came from research undertaken by the former Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI), that demonstrated the excellent physical activity benefits from the TravelSmart program that were reported to the then ‘Physical Activity Taskforce’.

A small pilot program was delivered by DSR to 500 households in Rockingham in 2008/09. An unintended outcome of this program was a marked increase in use of active and public transport modes for all trip purposes. After the success of the pilot, a larger scale program was delivered by DSR to over 4,000 households in Geraldton in 2011.

Your Move program (2013- present)

Individually, DoT’s TravelSmart program and the DSR’s ActiveSmart programs both produced impressive behaviour change results in terms of increasing active transport and physical activity levels (Ashton-Graham & John, 2006; SocialData, 2012; UrbanTrans, 2012). Correspondingly, both departments observed unintended by products of their programs, such as an increase in physical activity and health benefits for TravelSmart participants, and an increase in active transport and public transport uptake for ActiveSmart participants.

Consequently, both departments decided to combine resources and deliver a single large-scale community based TBC program called Your Move in the City of Cockburn in 2013/14. Your Move Cockburn aimed to decrease trips made by car and increase physical activity levels, while increasing active transport, public transport use and sporting participation levels (Department of Transport & Department of Sport and Recreation, 2013).

 

Your Move Cockburn 2013 - 2015

Your Move Cockburn was a highly-tailored, community-based behaviour change program that focused on providing local information and ongoing support to encourage City of Cockburn residents to be more physically active, utilise active and public transport, and increase community connectedness. 

The Department of Sport and Recreation and the Department of Transport partnered to commission Your Move Cockburn to capitalise on the synergies that existed between their current respective behaviour change programs, ActiveSmart and TravelSmart. 

The objectives of Your Move Cockburn were to:

  • Increase levels of physical activity through participation in local sport and active recreation opportunities, and
  • Increase participation in active transport as a contributing factor to the reduction of congestion

DoT employed a highly innovative and evidence-based behaviour change methodology to deliver Your Move Cockburn between August 2013 and June 2014. This included providing participants with tailored local information and resources, a range of personalised coaching services and, frequent and personalised feedback and support.

This highly innovative and evidence based program differed from past programs by employing broader recruitment methodologies (door-knocking, local events, and inbound text messages and website registration), a more sophisticated three-stage approach to telephone coaching and a focus on capacity building through community development initiatives (Department of Transport & Department of Sport and Recreation, 2013).

All project targets were successfully achieved:

  • 30,011 households were initially contacted
  • 10,008 households were successfully recruited
  • 8,060 households consented to personalised coaching

Check out the inspiring video below from Your Move Cockburn to see what our champions and participants have had to say about Your Move.

 

Your Move Wanneroo 2015

Your Move Wanneroo was the second large-scale implementation of a highly-tailored, community-based behaviour change program that focused on providing local information and ongoing support to encourage City of Wanneroo residents to be more physically active, utilise active and public transport, and increase community connectedness.

Building on the success of the Your Move pilot project in the City of Cockburn, the Department of Transport (DoT) and the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) once again partnered to commission Your Move Wanneroo to leverage the synergies that exist between their aims to increase physical activity and to increase utilisation of active travel modes.

The objectives of Your Move Wanneroo were to:

Contribute to a reduction in local congestion and improve transport efficiency by enabling households to replace private car trips with active transport modes;

  • Increase public transport patronage levels;
  • Increase levels of physical activity in the community; and
  • Improve community connectedness

Your Move Wanneroo built upon the lessons learned from Your Move Cockburn and employed a highly innovative and evidence-based behaviour change methodology to deliver Your Move Wanneroo between February 2015 and November 2015. This included providing participants with tailored local resources and information, personalised coaching services, and frequent and personalised feedback and support through a variety of media.

Through the successful delivery of the project:

  • 58,720 households were initially contacted
  • 10,556 households were successfully recruited
  • 10,259 households consented to personalised coaching

Your Move Bassendean 2019

Your Move Bassendean was a partnership between DoT and the Town of Bassendean (ToB), from February–May 2019 with the objective to ‘shift car driving trips to more sustainable modes of transport with a strong emphasis on increasing public transport patronage, walking and cycling’.

 The project target was to engage with 4,050 adult residents in the Town as well as engage local workplaces and primary schools. Your Move Bassendean was to be offered to all people over 18 years old living in Bassendean. The project encouraged local workplaces and schools to join DoT’s Your Move Workplace and Your Move Schools programs, plan and complete activities, share stories on the Your Move website so as to support long term engagement as a legacy of the Your Move Bassendean project. 

To support change, DoT developed a suite of information and resources which could be offered to participants. Using this general basis for the design of the intervention, it was important to inform the program with localised and locally relevant information. This would enable conversations, resources and information to suit the local community, both factually (e.g. localised maps) and culturally (so that invitations to consider change would be more likely to resonate). To this end, development of the intervention was undertaken between August and November 2018.

Through the successful delivery of the project:

  • The target number of 4050 participants, was achieved on 16 April 2019
  • At the end of the project had engaged 4066 participants in 3311 households.
  • This was a recruitment rate of just under 51% of Bassendean adults in about 48% of dwellings.
  • Of these, almost 50% committed to making a change to the way they travelled, so they would use the car less.
  • 3 of the 5 primary schools in the area joined Your Move Schools and held events and activities
  • 3 workplaces became engaged with the Your Move Workplace program

Your Move Stirling 2020 - 2021

Your Move Stirling was the latest implementation of the Department of Transport’s widely successful Your Move Communities program. This large-scale, highly-tailored, community-based program provides local information and ongoing support to encourage residents to utilise active and public transport and connect with places in their local community. Your Move Stirling built on the success of previous projects including those in the City of Cockburn, City of Wanneroo and Town of Bassendean.

The objectives of Your Move Stirling were to:

  • Contribute to a reduction in local congestion and improve transport efficiency by enabling
  • households to replace private car trips with active transport modes (i.e., walking or bike riding)
  • Increase public transport patronage levels; and
  • Improve community connectedness

The Your Move team built upon the lessons learned from past projects to employ a highly innovative and evidence-based behaviour change methodology to deliver Your Move Stirling between September 2020 and May 2021. This included providing participants with tailored local resources and information and personalised coaching services.

Through the successful delivery of the project:

  • Over 16,000 Stirling residents were successfully recruited into the residential service
  • Over 11,200 residents participated in personalised telephone coaching
  • Seven schools participated in intensive school programs
  • Three workplaces participated in a workplace competition

Check out the inspiring video below from Your Move Stirling to see what our champions and participants have had to say about Your Move.

Below is a list of some of the schools and workplaces who are part of our network. 

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