Andrew Dingjan, Director

AURIN

Better Infrastructure Planning and Decision Making - The Promise of Open Data

Airport Link – Brisbane

• Voluntary administration 2013

• Economic failure --incorrect predictions • Went into Receivership in 2013

Clem 7 – Brisbane (Clem Jones Tunnel)

• Opened in 2009 Bankrupt almost immediately

• $144 million in damages litigation

AURIN – Shining Light on the ‘Dark Arts’ - Forecasting Traffic - The poverty of Prediction - Improving planning processes using empirical data for large scale Complex icon Projects is key - Understanding and uncovering Localised phenomena is key to information veracity

Lane Cove Tunnel - Sydney

INFRASTRUCTURE DECISIONS – Getting Them Right More Often

Well intended And important Initiatives BUT Traffic & User Assumptions Frequently and Fundamentally Flawed

• AUST infrastructure crying out for a more rigourous, evidence-based approach – that the community understands! • Would we need platforms like AURIN if we were more highly data driven and got these large decisions right?

OPEN DATA HAS A ROLE IN IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

• Right Size for Networks • Network Mix Optimisation • Demand forecasting & Mgt • Maintenance Optimisation • Congestion Pricing

Open Data Can Build a View Of The Urban Infrastructure And City System - As A System Of Systems

Data Aggregation Platforms Like AURIN integrate Multi-Layered Spatial Data to Map and Visualise: • Linkages between public health outcomes and urban planning policies • Value conflicts between land-use, economics, urban design and personal well-being • Linkages between Industry clustering, agglomeration policies, crime, transport and social disadvantage • Linkages between communications, health, physical infrastructure and public safety

Research Infrastructure to Facilitate ‘Smart Cities’ Research and Analysis

& Encourage Data Driven Decisions

WHO WE ARE:

While it was conceptualised, designed and led by Uni of Melb, it is: • A federally funded ‘national asset’ • Owned by us all • For collaboration with the many; and • Not the proprietary domain of any one organisation

WHAT WE DO: OUR DISTINCT ROLE

We provide Australia’s urban

research community with the largest

single on-line spatial data Infrastructure

We facilitate an evidence based

approach to development &

planning of Australia’s cities and

towns

We enable access to integrated data, spanning physical, social, economic &

ecological aspects of Australia’s cities

Large scale Mission directed Multidisciplinary

UNPARALLELED, SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS TO CURATED, GEO-SPATIAL OPEN DATA ON AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY

WHAT WE DO: INFORM URBAN RESEARCH PRIORITIES

1500+ Users (Research & Govt) 70+ Research Institutions engaged Inc. Universities, CSIRO, ANDS

90+

ENHANCING HEALTH & WELLBEING ACROSS AUSTRALIAN

COMMUNITIES

URBAN DESIGN &

AFFORDABLE

HOUSING

INFRASTRUCTURE

TO ENHANCE

URBAN & REGIONAL

PRODUCTIVITY

ACHIEVING

GREATER

EFFICIENCIES

IN ENERGY &

WATER CONSUMPTION

MODEL AND VISUALISE

SOCIAL AND

ENVIRONMENTAL

INTERACTIONS

Datasets 2100 Academics, Scientists, Architects, Policy Planners, Industry leaders involved in AURIN governance

Converting Spatial Data Into Meaningful Information For The Purposes Of Intelligent Decision Making

Data is important, but smart tools create meaning

Fusing data and visualising results is most important

Helps turbocharge evidence-based decision processes

WHAT WE DO:

WiSER Economic Impact Tool

A HIGHLY DEVELOPED SUITE OF MODELLING AND ANALYTIC TOOLS

Australian Stocks & Flows Framework Employment

Clustering Tool

Vulnerability Analysis of Mortgage, Petrol & Inflation risks

NATSEM & HouseMod

Australian Bus Register data

UNSW – Urban Futures

National Health Services Directory

OUR DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORY - GROWTH Where We’re Going

Where We Are

• Platform design

• Analytical tools

• Engaging research

collaborators and

institutions

Completing The Build

(EST’d 2011)

Integrating Data With Platform

&Users

Where We’ve Been

• Data acquisition

• Expand Research user population –Outreach

• Creating analytics engines

• Improving useability

• Exponential growth in Research, Policy and Industrial users

• Decision Support tool for complex social &

infrastructure planning

The way things are around here

The Tool Of Choice For Urban And Social

Science Data Access And Analysis

Thank You Andrew Dingjan Director, AURIN T +61 3 8344 5814 e Andrew.dingjan@unimelb.edu.au Web: www.aurin.org.au

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: • Univ of WA - precinct planning and mass transport systems • Curtin Univ – Planning Decision Support tools • WA Govt. Dept. of Planning • CRC-SI (WA) – Health geo-visualisation

QUEENSLAND • Univ of QLD - spatial data analytical tools & methods.

• QUT – Transport data hub, Accessibility tool

• Griffith Uni – Social and Economic Indicators

• QLD Govt/QCIF

ACT • NATSEM (Univ of Canberra) - micro-simulation of data

NEW SOUTH WALES • City Futures (UNSW) – Housing Data Hub • CofFEE (Newcastle Uni) – Functional Economic Regions • DATA HUB: AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY MONITORS (FAIRFAX)

VICTORIA • University of Melbourne – AURIN Lead Agent (ABP Faculty); • UoM Engineering – Information Engineering Group

• CSDILA - Land Use administration research • Vic Govt. Data Hub

SOUTH AUSTRALIA • PHIDU (Univ of Adelaide) – Health Data • Univ of Adelaide – I/O tables, regional accessibility index

NATIONAL • Aust Bureau of Statistics • Public Sector Mapping Agency • GeoScience Aust. – Nexis data

WHO WE ARE: A Federated Network of Data And Collaborative Research Hubs