Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) Data for Regional Victoria

Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) data for Regional Victoria, developed by the Department of Transport and Planning. The dataset is a measure used in transport planning to assess location connectivity to the public transport network, adapted from a UK methodology for Victorian conditions. It is available in multiple geospatial file formats including DWG, MIF, DXF, SHP, and GDB.

Use Cases

• Assess public transport network connectivity for specific locations based on the PTAL methodology.
• Determine applicable car parking requirements for sites using the Car Parking Requirement Maps layer.
• Integrate PTAL scores into interactive planning tools like VicPlan for spatial analysis.
• Compare transport accessibility between the Melbourne metropolitan region and Regional Victoria.

Strengths

• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing open reuse.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (DWG, MIF, DXF, SHP, GDB) for interoperability.
• Based on a modified version of an established international methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Planning

Collection Method

Developed using the Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) methodology.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 05:41:40.487309; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Regional Victoria