This paper explores journey to work information for Sydney to understand the degree of variability of mode choice. Partly this is to provide a context in which to undertake further analysis, but also to suggest that, from a policy perspective, if higher non-car mode share is a good thing and if particular levels of non-car mode choice are already achieved in some parts of Sydney, then increasing non-car mode share in other parts of Sydney is not inherently impossible. A number of simple locational attributes are compared with mode shares of journey to work trips from zones in an attempt to identify some rules of thumb that might be useful in future planning work. While a more rigorous approach would be to develop a very detailed and complex model for each new development, the richness of the journey to work dataset might provide the basis for such rules of thumb. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213716.
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