Average Hospital Travel Times During Morning Peak

Geospatial data represents average weekday travel times to the nearest hospital by car during the 2016 morning peak period (7am to 9am). Infrastructure Australia created this layer for the 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit. It models strategic transport performance for urban crowding and congestion analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial equity in healthcare access by modeling travel_time to hospitals across different regions.
• Assess transport network congestion during AM peak by examining variations in average travel_time values.
• Identify geographic areas with poor hospital accessibility where travel_time exceeds a specific threshold.
• Integrate travel_time polygons with demographic data to correlate access with population characteristics.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a national strategic transport model for a major government audit.
• Focuses on a specific, high-demand time period (weekday AM peak, 7am to 9am).
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, WFS, WMS).

Limitations

• Data reflects conditions from a single year (2016), which may be outdated for current planning.
• Specific metrics like row count, column details, and spatial resolution are unknown.
• Analysis is limited to car travel, excluding other modes like public transit or walking.

Provenance

Source

Infrastructure Australia, a statutory body.

Collection Method

Strategic transport modelling for the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019.

Time Range

2016 (specifically weekday AM peak periods).

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in April 2026, but the underlying data is from 2016.

Geography

Australia (implied by the national audit scope).