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.
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.
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.
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.
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.