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On February 8, 2019 at 10:03:19 AM +1100, Department of Customer Service-8062:
  • Set maintainer of Travel Zone Spatial Data to meg-oliverchild-8062 (previously siobhanfriis)


  • Set author of Travel Zone Spatial Data to Transport for NSW (previously Bureau of Transport Statistics)


  • Updated description of Travel Zone Spatial Data from

    The BTS has a range of location information products which include the following: * Digitised boundaries * Equivalences * Maps Travel Zones (TZs) are the geographic units of the Bureau’s data collection, transport modelling and analysis. TZs allow for detailed spatial analysis as they are smaller than Statistical Local Areas (SLA), but generally larger than an ABS Collection District (CD) or Mesh Block (MB). In order to provide for a similar level of trip generation across zones, TZs are configured so that TZs tend to be small in areas with high land use densities and larger in areas of lower density. The key land uses of interest in defining TZs are employment, housing and transport infrastructure. As urban areas change over time, the BTS create a new zoning system in line with each 5-yearly population census. Digitised boundaries for these zoning systems and equivalences between them are available to users to undertake spatial analysis.
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    Travel Zones (TZs) are the spatial unit of geography defined by Transport Performance and Analytics (TPA), a business unit within Transport for NSW (TfNSW). The TZ spatial layer is applied to data sources used by TfNSW for transport modelling and analysis, including the Household Travel Survey and the Census 2016 Journey to Work data. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Statistical Area boundaries form the foundation of the TZ. Generally, a TZ is larger than a Statistical Area Level 1 or Mesh Block, both ABS geography definitions. The ABS Statistical Areas are based on population counts whereas TZ boundaries are defined using population, employment, housing and transport infrastructure. TZs are designed to have standardised trip generation levels across all zones. This causes zones to be different sizes across the metropolitan area. As with many other spatial boundaries, TZs tend to be small in areas with high land-use densities and larger in areas of lower density.