The paper provides an assessment of the geographic coverage of existing inter-regional public transport services in Australia in 2000-01. As part of its study into inter-regional public transport services, the BTRE compiled a database of all regular scheduled long-distance rail and express coach passenger transport services operating during 2000-011 from published electronic and printed timetables. The Air Transport Statistics (ATS) database provides similar information for air. Using TransCAD, the transportation based Geographic Information System (GIS) software, the authors undertook a geospatial analysis of the proximity of regional population centres to within a specified reasonable access distance of the geographic location of a regular public transport service. The results suggest that a relatively high proportion of persons living in population centres of 200 persons or more have access to some form of inter-regional public transport service. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E209537. This paper may also be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.btre.gov.au/docs/atrf_02/program.html
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