posts

  • Effective frequency calculator

    If a station gets four trains per hour, that’s one every fifteen minutes, right?

  • A Queensland state election predictor using the 2022 Senate results as a basis

    The same non-uniform swing model, updated for 2024 with Senate data from 2022 rather than 2016.
  • Thoughts on Brisbane Metro

    Brisbane’s busway network is a victim of its own success. The “Metro” project, while misleadingly named, is what’s possible as an incremental upgrade.

  • Modelling SA1-booth correspondences

    Elections have geographic aspects: people live somewhere and often your neighbours are similar to you socio-economically. Further, both boundaries and polling places can differ across the three levels of government, and they change over time.

  • SEQ Rail: the next decades

    Cross River Rail will soon be completed.

  • Population and Transit Mapping

    When designing a public transport system we have a number of goals. We want to (equitably) provide as many people as possible with a basic level of service. But in order to move the greatest number of people (e.g. to substitute for as many car trips as possible) we want a network design and resource that focuses service on a frequent grid-like pattern.

  • Ferry extension up the Brisbane River

    Something that comes up occasionally on comment sections that I see is the idea of extending the CityCat upriver from UQ. I suspect it’s not justifiable for journeys to (or past) the city but it might be worthwhile for more local trips.