Suburban Train Crowding During 2016 PM Peak Hours in Australia

Infrastructure Australia created this geospatial dataset for the 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit. It represents average weekday transport crowding performance during the PM peak period from 4pm to 6pm in 2016. The data models strategic transport conditions, excluding network links below daily volume thresholds.

Use Cases

• Modeling passenger load on suburban trains based on PM peak hour data.
• Identifying network sections with high crowding for infrastructure planning.
• Analyzing transport performance for strategic audits based on 2016 conditions.
• Visualizing spatial gaps in the transport network where data thresholds were not met.

Strengths

• Data is part of a formal national infrastructure audit from 2019.
• Focuses on a specific, high-impact time period (PM peak, 4pm-6pm).
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects 2016 conditions; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and specific geographic scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Infrastructure Australia

Collection Method

Strategic transport modelling for the Urban Transport Crowding and Congestion supplementary report.

Time Range

2016, specifically average weekday PM peak (4pm-6pm).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 15:56:13.273151; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia (specific suburban train networks, exact coverage unknown).