Project Focus Area

Integrated Land Use, Transport Planning & Modelling

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Australian Transport Research Cloud (ATRC)

By providing transport researchers with streamlined access to the key datasets and open source analysis and modelling tools necessary to address complex transport issues facing our cities, the new Australian Transport Research Cloud (ATRC) will deliver the requisite knowledge base to inform smarter transport management, planning and policy making.

A collaboration between Australian transport researchers, planners and policy makers (from government, industry and private sector), the iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN). This project will provide a common platform comprising data, tools, storage, compute to support the needs of the Australian transport research community, by extending the existing AURIN platform.

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Econometrics, land use inputs, and strategic transport models

The project will improve the interactions between urban transport and land use systems, especially at the level of individual decision makers (households and enterprises). It will approach this through the provision of advanced econometric support in a practical implementation of a bid-rent model structure and parameter estimation as part of a newly established land use model. This will produce robust and high-quality household and business activity inputs to transport modelling.

This is necessary to facilitate the understanding of impacts of new and emerging transport technologies and behaviour changes (including the effects of autonomous vehicles, shared vehicle ownership, shared car driving and ride-sharing, and voluntary household behavioural change), enabling the land use model to better estimate behavioural responses through the incorporation of location choices of households and business.

This research will contribute to providing an enhanced understanding of:

  • the econometrics theory underlying the model
  • estimating and using the bid function

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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.

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

Managing transport system investment risk: enhancing patronage predictions and adapting strategic asset management and appraisal processes to account for emerging trends and uncertainty

For transport planners and government transport agencies, the uncertainties of emerging technologies and changing trends challenge conventional transportation decision-making, both for long- and short-term planning. The purpose of this project is to adapt key existing planning tools, guidelines and frameworks to account for uncertainty of changing trends and emerging technologies. This will enable the Transport Portfolio of WA to better manage transport infrastructure investment risks.

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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.