06 Nov Travel Time Analysis

Authored by Matthew Nichol – Principal Economist

Over recent years we have observed increasing interest in understanding communities in terms of the accessibility of services within reasonable travel times.  Rather than defining communities by administrative boundaries or standard statistical geography, strategic plans are often referring to concepts such as 10-minute neighbourhoods and 30-minute cities.  These principles are increasingly influencing how we design our communities and identify suitable sites for infrastructure, community assets and service delivery.  Businesses and investors are also seeking resources for rapidly comparing one site with another in terms of:

• Workforce – people with requisite skills
• Demography – characteristics of people in the travel-time catchment
• Market – critical mass of potential customers in target demographic groups
• Competition – potential capacity for growth
• Supply-chains – availability of intermediate goods and services

The new Travel Time Analysis feature in REMPLAN Community is a powerful resource that specifically addresses these requirements.

Under the Regions tab in REMPLAN Community click ‘Create Travel Time region’.

Enter a location for a business, an organisation, infrastructure or service delivery:

…define the method of travel, the travel time and conditions:

When additional REMPLAN Community datasets are requested by our clients for activity centres, local government areas, regions and states, the turnaround for delivery is typically 1 week.

The Travel Time Regions are different.  REMPLAN Community automatically generates datasets for these areas based on an isochrone database, like those utilised by satellite navigation systems.   It typically requires around five minutes for the dataset to compile and you are then ready to continue with your work!

Once complete, you have access to a Community dataset reflecting the unique demography of the area based on the travel time to the address you entered.

Under your REMPLAN Community subscription travel time regions can be generated for any address across Australia!

This resource represents a significant time and cost saving for preparing analysis to support site selection and catchment assessments.

Contact the team at REMPLAN to discuss to discuss how Travel Time Analysis can support planning and development in your communities.