Australian urban public transport – 2024 update

In September 2014, the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics released a fascinating report, Long-term trends in urban public transport, the core of which was a detailed reconstruction of the public transport patronage for Australia’s capital cities. It’s now been over a decade since BITRE updated this dataset, so I’ve …

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Globelink, five years on

“Globelink” was a late-2010s proposal by the South Australian Liberal Party to modernise the state’s supply chain through targeted infrastructure investments. The ambitious program aimed to integrate road, rail and air freight services at a new intermodal freight super-hub at Monarto, 50km southeast of Adelaide, relieving urban road congestion and …

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