Using cycling infrastructure data made available through AURIN, as well as data from Vicroads, the Victorian Government and the researchers’ own survey data, researchers at Monash University have conducted a study of the role of neighbourhood design in cycling activity during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdowns. Naseri, Delbosc and Kamruzzaman’s (2023) study, ‘The role of neighbourhood design […]
Category Archives: Data
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Dec
Dec
In celebration of the World Open Data movement, AURIN and ARUP are excited to partner on an Urban Innovation Data Hack across March 22 and 23, 2024. Focusing on the challenges and opportunities in Melbourne’s Innovation District, this event, held at ARUP’s Docklands HQ and online, will bring together a diverse group of participants, including […]
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Dec
The purpose of cladding on buildings is to provide protection against the weather and improve the appearance of the building but in some cases it can endanger the inhabitants and the surrounding community. Combustible cladding increases the rate at which fire spreads, causing it to develop at an accelerated speed and intensity. This was most […]
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The Australian Urban Health Indicator project (AusUrb-HI) has hit another milestone with the acquisition of individual linked health data at SA1 level. SA1 data is the finest aggregated geography available from the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for statistical analysis of people and place. Accessing data at […]
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We’re still energised from a thought-provoking week at the 2023 eResearch Australasia Conference in Brisbane. In particular the Birds of a Feather session we held on building a collaborative foundation for Australian Urban Digital Twins was a real highlight. The focus of the session was on enhancing interoperability as the first step towards building an […]
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Oct
From July to September 2023 AURIN was cited in a variety of material, including several conference papers and a peer-reviewed piece of research. The peer-reviewed paper, ‘A review on worldwide urban observatory systems’ data analytics themes: Lessons learned for Malaysia Urban Observatory (MUO)’, in Journal of Urban Management Vol. 12 Issue 3, was written by Noradila […]
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From April to June 2023, data accessed through AURIN was cited in a wide variety of material, including in three papers published in peer-reviewed journals and one in a book of conference proceedings. These datasets were used by researchers across Australia and internationally to inform analysis on topics including walkability, public transport service quality, heat […]
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May
May
In the first quarter of 2023, data accessed through AURIN was cited in a wide variety of material, including in seven papers published in peer-reviewed journals. These datasets were used by researchers across Australia and internationally to inform analysis of subjects including the use of drones for flood monitoring, the impacts of heavy rail transport […]
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Tradition city-descriptive data uses classes (left). New datasets allow a truer representation of cities, with parameters unique to each grid representing a neighbourhood | Image supplied. Cities are both affected by the impacts of climate change and also contribute to it—through pollution, changing landscapes, and localised warming caused by urbanisation. More than 55% of the […]
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Oct
Oct
Using APM (Australian Property Monitors) Point Level Data and the Inside Airbnb dataset available through AURIN, researchers at the University of Auckland have assessed the impact of short-term tourism rentals, in particular, those through Airbnb, on rental prices across different suburbs in Melbourne, Australia. Cheung & Yiu’s (2022) study ‘Touristification, Airbnb and the tourism-led rent […]