PTAL (Public Transport Accessibility Level)

Created 07/06/2025

Updated 07/06/2025

Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) is a measure of connectivity by public transport and is used for various planning processes. PTAL suggests how well a place is connected to public transport services. It does not cover trips by car. The TfNSW PTAL model calculates public transport accessibility for every Australian Bureau of Statistics Mesh Block in New South Wales (NSW). The TfNSW PTAL model is based on the Transport for London (TfL) and was adapted for TfNSW in collaboration with the Spatial Information Science team at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University. The full details of the TfL PTAL model can be found here. PTAL values range from zero to six, where the highest value represents the best connectivity. PTAL is available for each hour of the day. A location will have a higher PTAL if: - It is a short walking distance to the nearest stations or stops - Waiting times at the nearest stations or stops are short - More services pass at the nearest stations or stops - There are major rail stations nearby - Any combination of all the above. Please read the PTAL Fact sheet for more information. The format of the data is ArcGIS geodatabase. The images below are examples of PTAL data in 2024.

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Title PTAL (Public Transport Accessibility Level)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/dd3a4b91-9fae-4424-b823-e888a0524ec1
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2025
Contact Point
New South Wales Datasets
test@email.loc
Reference Period 09/07/2022
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "PTAL (Public Transport Accessibility Level)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-2-ptal-public-transport-accessibility-level