Average Peak-Hour Travel Time to Primary Schools

Infrastructure Australia's strategic transport model provides average weekday travel times to the nearest public primary school by car during the morning peak period. The data supports the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019, specifically its supplementary report on Urban Transport Crowding and Congestion. This geospatial layer was published by Infrastructure Australia.

Use Cases

• Modeling school catchment area accessibility by analyzing the 'average travel time' metric during the AM peak.
• Assessing equity in education access by mapping travel time geospatial data against socioeconomic layers.
• Calibrating transport simulation models using the defined 7am to 9am weekday peak performance data.
• Informing infrastructure investment decisions by identifying areas with long travel times to primary schools.

Strengths

• Data originates from Infrastructure Australia's strategic transport modelling for a national audit.
• Specific temporal context is provided for the modeled travel times: weekday AM peak (7am to 9am).
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse and analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific column schema are not documented.
• Data represents a modeled 2019 scenario and may not reflect current or future traffic conditions.
• Geographic coverage is unspecified and may be limited to major urban areas studied in the audit.

Provenance

Source

Infrastructure Australia

Collection Method

Strategic transport modelling for the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019.

Time Range

Modeled scenario for the 2019 audit; represents typical weekday AM peak conditions.

Freshness

Last platform update was 2026-04-04, but the underlying data models the 2019 audit context.

Geography

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