PATREC – Planning and Transport Research Centre

We Move Perth Forward

Providing Transport & Land Use Insights for Smart Future Planning

About PATREC

Evidence-based
decision-making

As cities begin integrating sustainable practices into long-term planning, more rigorous and comprehensive measures are needed to understand the complex ties between land-use and transport choices.

This is where PATREC’s research and expertise in the connected spaces of transport and land use planning can offer insight into trends, patterns and processes and inform innovative solutions that fit the future.

The Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) is a collaboration of leading experts and researchers from the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University as well as policy makers from the Department of Transport, Main Roads and the Western Australian Planning Commission.

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news & events

PATREC Supervised Students Present at AITPM Thesis Night

Students co-supervised by PATREC researchers including Dr Chao Sun recently presented the findings of their work at the AITPM Thesis Night which was graciously hosted by Aurecon at their Perth offices. Sonya Stemler, Samson Ting, Robert Pennefather and Liam Cummins…

UWA School of Population and Global Health and PATREC JOINT RESEARCH SEMINAR - Cities, cars and health: what road shall we travel?

Prof Mark Stevenson Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health The University of Melbourne To meet the major challenges of the 21st century, cities will not only need to accommodate the growing populations, but also respond to the challenges of…

PATREC Seminar - Urban Transport Inequalities, Malta

Thursday, 12 December 2019, 3:00PM to 4:30PM at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre – Level 2, 1002 Hay St, Perth. This event is FREE of charge.

PATREC Presents RailSmart to Stakeholders

On the 29th of October, 2019, PATREC hosted an event at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) to communicate the methodology behind the RailSmart system. Over 40 people attended to hear some of the researchers behind the tool talk…

our Latest
Projects

Current and Due to Commence

Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) Optimisation for Network Widening and Maintenance Scheduling (Main Roads WA, 2019/20)

The objective of the project is to incorporate the use of MOGA to optimise locality and timing of integrated works…

Drone video analytics (Main Roads WA, 2019/20)

The objectives of this project are to explore new techniques for automated camera calibration and undertake video analytics from drone…

Managing transport system investment risk: enhancing patronage predictions and adapting strategic asset management and appraisal processes to account for emerging trends and uncertainty (iMOVE CRC-PATREC, 2019-2020)

Governments are responsible for ensuring public funds are invested wisely for the benefit of society. For transport planners and government…

Planning intermodal and general logistics infrastructure for the future needs of Perth (iMOVE CRC-PATREC, 2018-2019)

This project consists of a suite of related research streams to support the state of WA and the WestPort Taskforce…

Supervision and Collaboration

PhD OPPORTUNITIES

PATREC collaborates with our university partners in the supervision of PhD candidates. Should you have a research proposal in line with PATREC focus areas. Please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page.