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The rising rate of obesity is a major public health problem in Australia and the ‘obesogenic environment’ is increasingly acknowledged as the most appropriate target for interventions addressing the problem. Recent research has identified car use as a potential contributor to the obesogenic environment; however, there has been little discussion of the social processes that underpin this trend. This...