PATREC RESEARCH PROGRAMS

PATREC Research Projects

PATREC works with government agencies and researchers on applied research across key areas including urban mobility, transport planning, land use, freight and logistics, active travel, and emerging vehicle technologies. Our projects inform policy and planning outcomes across Western Australia and beyond. Projects can be listed by year of commencement.

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Enhancing Active Transport Infrastructure Through Video Analytics and Community Reporting

This project aims to enhance the safety of shared paths for active transport modes like cycling, eRideables and pedestrians, through a combination of video analytics and community-sourced incident data.

By leveraging UWA’s cutting-edge RoadSense Video Analytics software, the project will systematically collect videos and analyse observational data of user behaviours, movement patterns, and potential conflict hotspots. This objective video data will be complemented by a crowdsourced incident reporting web portal that is mobile phone friendly, to increase the ease of reporting for users. The portal will also incorporate a searchable database to systematically curate both video-derived and community-reported incident and near-miss data, addressing the underreporting challenge and facilitating further research.

Key outcomes of this project include a framework for ongoing systematic safety data collection, reports on identified issues and baseline “before” conditions, and improved design guidelines for safer and more inclusive shared paths. Find more information on the National Road Safety Action Grants Program which is funding this project from this link.

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A Population-Based Study Assessing the Impact of Visual Field Loss on Motor Vehicle Crashes

Globally, the older population is rapidly increasing, which has implications for road safety, particularly as most older adults continue to drive for convenience and the associated improved health outcomes. Visual fields play a crucial role in safe driving, as visual field loss can affect the detection of objects in the periphery, judging distance and speed, maintaining lane position in a curve, and anticipatory skills while driving.

Current visual standards for driving, authorised by licensing authorities, are based on visual acuity and visual fields. However, these consensus-derived standards lack robust scientific evidence on the association between visual field loss, driving ability and crash risk.

To address this limitation, we propose an innovative population-based study leveraging a large-scale specialised ophthalmic database of visual fields tests comprising 606,230 records from 92,215 participants, already linked to various population-based administrative databases, including police-reported crash data, hospitalisation records, and licensing data. The detailed nature of the visual field database surpasses any existing study in scale and depth both nationally and internationally. This wealth of data will enable us to determine precise estimates of crash risk and explore associations between the severity and location of visual field loss (e.g. superior versus inferior) that could be used to inform road safety and licensing authorities regarding fitness to drive in WA, Australia and worldwide.

Find more information on the National Road Safety Action Grants Program, which is funding this project.

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Urban – Freight vehicle usage of Perth metropolitan area roads – Regional – Grain freight activity on southern Wheatbelt roads

A qualitative understanding of freight vehicle usage per industry sector supply chain, starting with the retail industry to provide a platform for more fine-grained analytical study.

The Regional Freight project was a first attempt to gain some systematic knowledge of grain road freight usage.

Enhancing Active Transport Infrastructure Through Video Analytics and Community Reporting

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A Population-Based Study Assessing the Impact of Visual Field Loss on Motor Vehicle Crashes

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Urban – Freight vehicle usage of Perth metropolitan area roads – Regional – Grain freight activity on southern Wheatbelt roads

Creating Age Friendly Communities: Local Transport Solutions Project

PATREC contributed the component of Evaluation of age-friendly community pilot transport services to a broader project which was used to inform the development of an Integrated Transport Strategy for the Wheatbelt to allow older residents across the Wheatbelt to better access key services and infrastructure.

iMOVE Bid-related seed projects

  • Network operations research needs
  • Freight industry research needs

ARC LIEF Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure (UADI) Project

Develops an urban analytics data infrastructure that builds on the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN). Specifically it developed and implemented a technical framework for Urban Transport infrastructure, modes, quantity and quality.

Infrastructure Funding Research Priorities and Project Planning

Research that integrates value capture into the PPP framework so that predicted value capture receipts can be factored into the PPP framework for funding of construction and operation.
Seed Projects:

  • Use of Mobile Fitness Application Data to Model Bicycle Usage Patterns
  • Suburbs Research for Australian Cities
  • Transport Technology Futures
  • Travel Behaviour Change
  • Employment self-sufficiency

Activity Centre Accessibility

The study ascertains, through analysis of accessibility and development potential, which activity centres should be prioritised to support decentralisation of jobs, encourage better integration of transport and land use and ultimately aid the evaluation of a more compact, consolidated and connected city.

WA Freight Studies – Stage 2

The Urban Freight project provides a qualitative understanding of freight vehicle usage per industry sector supply chain, starting with the grocery sector of the retail industry as a pilot to provide a platform for a more fine-grained analytical study.

Stated Preference Survey – Experimental Design

To design a suite of Stated Preference (SP) surveys and to examine the advantages and feasibility of combining these SP surveys with the upcoming Perth and Regions Travel Survey (PARTS, scheduled for 2016) to improve the mode choice component of Perth’s strategic models of the current strategic models.

AURIN WA Data Hub

To enable programmatic access to WA data through the AURIN portal to allow urban researchers, policy and decision makers across Australia to interrogate and analyse WA spatial datasets along with many other datasets within the AURIN environment. The focus was on transport and urban planning datasets.

Activity Centres: Making Land Use and Transport Work – Stations in or near freeway medians – reconciling node/place conflicts

To inform decisions regarding the co-location of new freeways, rail lines/stations and activity centres and also strategies to improve land use and transport outcomes in existing settings.

Mass Rapid Transit @3.5

To research, evaluate and advise on the options for the primary mass transit network to serve the Perth and Peel metropolitan region to cater for a population of 3.5 million and beyond as set out in the documents making up the Perth Planning Framework.

Congestion Abatement through Travel Demand Management

Developed a working definition of travel demand management (TDM), capturing various perceptions on what travel demand management is thought to be and compile a matrix of measures being implemented. Focus was placed on approaches to assess TDM policies targeted at congestion mitigation including measures of congestion.

Independent Transport Modelling Review

Responding to transport modelling needs, capabilities and gaps, identified through a rigorous transport modelling stakeholder engagement process, the review examined current transport modelling practices in Perth, benchmarking them against best practice in Australia and overseas.

RAC Pulse of Perth

The real-time travel patterns of Perth commuters captured in a timelapse video.

RailSmart Wanneroo Planning Support System

A proof-of-concept Planning Support System which demonstrates the application of academic research to better inform public decision making. Using evidence-based modelling, future development scenarios in terms of employment creation and public transport patronage in the City of Wanneroo can be tested.

Understanding Road Freight Demand Generation Patterns Per Industry Type – Perth Road Freight Analysis

Provided data on road freight activity (scale, nature, origin-destination pattern and growth trends) and support planning for economic clusters.

Understanding Travel Behaviour Patterns and Trends

Performance monitoring in near real time – feed into the Directions/P&[email protected] Annual Report Card; public transport on demand matrix validation, improve strategic modelling assumptions; inform PARTS survey sample frame, supporting evidence-based policy formulation.

An Appraisal of Travel Plans and Voluntary Transport Behaviour Projects

Research to identify and and allow for appraisal of a targeted suite of TDM instruments that will be necessary in managing congestion. In particular, travel plans and DOT’s flagship voluntary travel behaviour change (VTBC) program, Your Move.

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PATREC works with government agencies and researchers on applied research across key areas including urban mobility, transport planning, land use, freight and logistics, active travel, and emerging vehicle technologies. Our projects inform policy and planning outcomes across Western Australia and beyond. Projects are listed by year of commencement.

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