Average Car Travel Times to Secondary Schools During Morning Peak

Infrastructure Australia's 2019 audit includes geospatial data on average weekday car travel times to the nearest public secondary school during the morning peak period of 7am to 9am. The data was created for strategic transport modeling in the 'Urban Transport Crowding and Congestion' supplementary report. It was published by Infrastructure Australia and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Model school catchment areas by calculating travel time isochrones from residential zones.
• Assess equity in educational access by correlating travel_time_to_school with socioeconomic indicators from other datasets.
• Identify traffic congestion hotspots by analyzing areas with exceptionally high average_travel_time during the AM peak.

Strengths

• Data is part of a formal national infrastructure audit, ensuring authoritative methodology.
• Specific temporal context is provided, focusing on the 2016 AM peak period (7am-9am) on weekdays.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON and SHP for interoperability.

Limitations

• The underlying sample size, row count, and spatial resolution of the travel time calculations are unknown.
• Data reflects conditions from 2016, which may not represent current traffic or school infrastructure.
• The dataset is limited to car travel and public secondary schools, excluding other modes and school types.

Provenance

Source

Infrastructure Australia, a statutory body advising the Australian Government.

Collection Method

Derived from strategic transport modeling for the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019.

Time Range

2016 (specifically weekday AM peak periods).

Freshness

Data reflects 2016 conditions but was last updated in the repository in April 2026.

Geography

Australia (specific geographic coverage granularity is unspecified).