GCLink

Project Info

Team Name

GCLink

Team Members

1 member with an unpublished profile.

Project Description

We will focus on the utilisation of roads and transport in the Queensland State Government level, primarily on the Gold Coast where there have been recent investment in new transport options in light rail and bikeways. By understanding the difference in traffic levels for districts with more accessible public transport and alternate travel options (like bikeways or autonomous vehicles) the government can better substantiate new investment in expanding their transport options. The combined data sets are from various modes of transport, parking, public sentiment, and geospacial traffic maps.

Councillors are interested in traffic comparisons that dictate where their transport investment should be made and what modes of transport will be more beneficial. This will dictate forward-looking government backed green initiatives, reducing congestion, road upgrades and ease of mobility for tourists and attracting residents.

Data Story

We will use our base idea of improving transport solutions and investment in roads, which has many obvious datasets like location of cycleways and light rail utilisation. We will explore the available data on council, government and open data from industry to discover patterns that can correlate seemingly unrelated datasets like development history in the different districts, weather and tourism along certain routes etc to help tell the full story of our transport utilisation recommendations. How can we use open data to use evidence based decisions?

Team DataSets

Tram or light rail route

Data Set

Parking Area

Data Set

GC Data

Census Data

Challenge Entries

Out of the Box - New take on data for regional development

Use an existing data set outside its normal context to both display and encourage innovate solutions to regional problems and promote and foster regional economic development.

Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.

Best use of Gold Coast Data

Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.

More than apps and maps: help government decide with data

How can we combine data to help government make their big and small decisions? Government makes decisions every day—with long term consequences such as the location of a school, or on a small scale such as the rostering of helpdesk staff.

Eligibility: Use at least two data sets (at least one from data.gov.au) to help government make a decision that will improve services for people. Any code produced for your entry must be published on github under an open license. If your entry is not software, you will need to show the working behind your use of data along with any calculations and analysis you did. You must indicate which specific government agency (at any level of government) can take action based on your entry.

Go to Challenge | 58 teams have entered this challenge.

Tourism Jobs Challenge

How might we determine the future tourism job needs for Queensland?

Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.

Bounty: Mix and Mashup

How can we combine the uncombinable?

Go to Challenge | 61 teams have entered this challenge.

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