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PATREC technical reports document the outcomes of funded research projects — from freight planning and road maintenance to working from home and autonomous vehicles — and are made available here as a public archive for stakeholders, practitioners, and policymakers across Western Australia.

Technical Reports

A Smart Transport Technology Roadmap for Perth: Final report

Accounting for carbon in the planning for new residential suburbs Stage 1

Activity Centre Accessibility

Activity Centres: Making Land Use and Transport Work

Adapting Strategic Asset Management Practice for CAV: Part 1

Adapting Strategic Asset Management Practice for CAV: Part 2

Adapting Strategic Asset Management Practice for CAV: Part 3

AI-assisted model calibration for real-time traffic simulation

Biofuels – evaluation of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) renewable diesel trial pilot Stage 1

Competition Policy and Railway Investment: Project Summary

Congestion Abatement through Travel Demand Management: Part B

Congestion Abatement through Travel Demand Management: Part A

Economic Regulation of Railways in Logistics Chains

Employee Perspectives on Working from Home: Wave 1 survey results

Enhancing land-use inputs to strategic transport models through advanced econometrics: CUBE Land Best Practice Review: Literature and User Survey

Enhancing land-use inputs to strategic transport models through advanced econometrics: CUBE Land: Econometrics Training

Enhancing patronage predictions and adapting strategic asset management and appraisal processes to account for emerging trends and uncertainty: Close-out Report

FACTBase73 – Making Strategic Jobs Count: Addressing Issues of Spatial Inequality

Factors Affecting Travel Behaviour Choice: Executive Summary

Factors Affecting Travel Behaviour Choice: Full Report

Factors Influencing Public Transport Patronage Trends: 2009 – 2019

Factors Influencing Public Transport Patronage Trends: 2015 – 2019

Feasibility of battery-electric buses for regional school bus services in Western Australia

Future Directions in Railway Management and Regulation

Future Uncertainties of [email protected]: ‘What-If’ Scenarios for Mass Transit – Executive Summary

Future Uncertainties of [email protected]: ‘What-If’ Scenarios for Mass Transit: Full Report

Global Supply Chain Trends and Local Perspectives – Executive Summary

Global Supply Chain Trends and Local Perspectives – Full Report

Identifying opportunities to address transport disadvantage in Perth: Final Report

Impact assessment

Implementing Multi-Zone Perimeter Controls on Perth’s Road Network: Executive Summary

Implementing Multi-Zone Perimeter Controls on Perth’s Road Network: Full Report

Implementing Perimeter Controls for the Perth CBD

Improved roundabout modelling using drone video analytics including Stage 1

Increasing older people’s acceptance of shared, automated and electric vehicles

Intermodal Systems for Perth: Executive Summary

Intermodal Systems for Perth: Full Report

Journey Planner Usage Analysis

Land Use and Freight Generation Analysis

Literature Review

Machine Learning and Multi-Objective Optimisation Models for Enhanced Road Maintenance Investment Decision Making

Machine learning models for road maintenance investment decision making

Mapping the Circular Economy of Western Australia: Towards a Science-based Circular Observatory

Mass Rapid Transit for Perth and Peel at 3.5 Million and Beyond

Multi-objective genetic algorithm optimisation for network widening and maintenance scheduling

PATREC Rapid Appraisal Model (P-RAM): Executive summary

PATREC Rapid Appraisal Model (P-RAM): Full Report

Planning for a sustainable last kilometre freight delivery system for the food and beverage sector in Greater Perth

Planning intermodal and general logistics infrastructure for the future needs of Perth: Global Supply Chain Trends and Local Perspectives

Preliminary investigation into benchmarking the safety culture in the Australian rail industry

Prioritisation of infrastructure investment proposals in the face of uncertainty

Pulse of Perth: Technical report RAC project page

Railways and the Just Price

Recommendations for asset managers

Review of Infrastructure Financing Options for Transport in Western Australia

Short-term Traffic Speed Prediction for Perth Roads Using Machine Learning: Executive Summary

Short-term Traffic Speed Prediction for Perth Roads Using Machine Learning: Full Report

Simulating the Traffic Impact of AVs and CAVs on Perth’s Freeways and Arterial Roads

State of Circularity in Western Australia: A Summary Report

Stated Preference Surveys: Experimental Design

Telemetry Systems for Tracking Road Freight Activity: Executive Summary

Telemetry Systems for Tracking Road Freight Activity: Full Report

The Networked Firm: A Framework for RBV

Transformation of the Australian Car Fleet: Likely Responses to Current and Projected Petrol Price

Transit-Oriented Development in Western Australia: Obstacles and Opportunities

Transport environment and kids…15 years on

Transport Modelling Review

Transport Predictive Solution – Stage 2 – R&D – WA Node: AI-assisted Model Calibration for Real-time Traffic Simulation

Travel Behaviour Patterns – Macro Analysis: Executive Summary

Travel Behaviour Patterns – Macro Analysis: Full Report

Travel Behaviour Patterns – Micro Analysis: Executive Summary

Travel Behaviour Patterns – Micro Analysis: Full Report

Understanding Freight in Perth: Executive Summary

Understanding Freight in Perth: Full Report

Universities Travel Smart Resource Kit

Working from Home: Changes in Transport Demand – the Case of Greater Perth: Overview

Working from Home: Employee Perspectives – Travel and Values

Working from Home: Employee Perspectives – Work: Appendix 5B

Working from Home: Employer Perspectives