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.
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.
Informed the implementation of P&[email protected] million – research into LU mix and intensity at stations and activity corridors to support 11% mode share target thereby informing business plans for investment in station precincts.
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.
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.
A new PATREC program of research commenced in 2023 with three foundation projects, responding to WA government-identified need: Feasibility of battery-electric buses for regional school bus services; Mapping the Circular Economy of WA: Monitoring the contributions of circularity towards achieving Net Zero; and Accounting for carbon in the planning for new residential suburbs. Funding for second stages of these projects, as well as for new projects, has been agreed by PATREC and iMOVE CRC to be undertaken in 2025 and 2026.
Data and tools are a significant part of each project, providing the ideal opportunity to establish an enabling research infrastructure to support the new program of research: CATLUP – Climate action in transport and land use planning, comprising data and tools, as the basis for a longer-term indicator-based monitoring system to measure, monitor and drive enhanced resource efficiency and environmental performance towards net zero emissions of WA cities.
AURIN-WA will produce tools for transport and land use planning research, with a climate action focus. In turn these tools will deliver impact case studies across industry and government, and secondary users.