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Off the Rails


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Gold Coast, Southport Tram Expansion

Project Info

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Team Name


Off the Rails


Team Members


5 members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


Proposal for additional light rail routes to be added to the Gold Coast, South Port CBD District.


Data Story


All data sets, overlays, graphs and pictures can be located in the provided Google Drive link. All data sets are able to be imported into Google Earth, Queensland Globe and ArcGIS.


Evidence of Work

Video

Team DataSets

Landmark areas - Queensland

Description of Use Able to incorporate into Google Earth to easily identify key local landmarks easily and make correlations between education facilities and excessive traffic congestion in the Gold Coast's CBD.

Data Set

ABS Statistics

Description of Use Able to find accurate data regarding the volume of people driving to work daily in the gold coast as well as the amount of cars registered in the gold coast.

Data Set

City of Gold Coast Data

Description of Use Used existing light rail data as well as existing parking areas and incorporated them into Google Earth to create a unique overlay of data showing crucial information easily.

Data Set

QLD Globe

Description of Use Outline Gold Coast CBD so show area with MSES and ASS areas and check if data can be incorporated into different programs like Google Earth and Arc Gis.

Data Set

QLD Traffic

Description of Use Used to find peak traffic times on certain roads.

Data Set

Collection Of Used Data Sets

Data Set

Challenge Entries

Reducing CBD Traffic Congestion

How to reduce traffic congestion or parking problems in CBD?

Eligibility: Use any open dataset to support your entry.

Go to Challenge | 39 teams have entered this challenge.

Australia’s Future Employment

Choose one of the following questions to address: 1. How can recent and future changes in the labour market help prepare young people for job opportunities? 2. What can we learn from case studies of regional labour markets? For example, what does rapid change in the industries or occupations within a region tell us about the needs of employers/workers in other regional labour markets

Eligibility: Use one or more datasets from the Labour Market Information Portal

Go to Challenge | 38 teams have entered this challenge.

Economy and Jobs

How can we create more jobs and grow the Queensland economy?

Eligibility: We suggest you consider using the Queensland Government open datasets on data.qld.gov.au.

Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.

Getting around on the Gold Coast

How can we improve the way locals and tourists travel to, from and around the Gold Coast?

Eligibility: Must make use of Gold Coast relevant data

Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.

Spatial Information

How might Queenslanders find out more about where they live?

Eligibility: We strongly recommend using the Queensland Government open datasets on data.qld.gov.au and spatial web services on QSpatial

Go to Challenge | 19 teams have entered this challenge.

Public Transport for the Future

How might we combine data with modern technologies - such as AI/ML, IoT, Analytics or Natural Language interfaces - to better our public transport services. Outcomes could take the form of new commuter experiences, reduced environmental impact, or helping plan for the future.

Eligibility: Use any open dataset to support your entry.

Go to Challenge | 45 teams have entered this challenge.

The best use of Gold Coast Data

Best use of Gold Coast Data

Eligibility: Must use Gold Coast Data

Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.