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GreenRide software

O'Brien Traffic are acting as agents for GreenRide car pooling software in Australia GreenRide has been used in the USA for many years and also in New Zealand in recent years.

The GreenRide software is designed for developing successful alternative transportation programs such as carpooling, vanpooling, bike-to-work and park-and-ride.

pt4me2

pt4me2.org.au is a project of the Metropolitan Transport Forum which represents 19 municipalities across Melbourne on transport issues.

The objective of pt4me2 is to give the community another way to have a say about public transport in Melbourne, including a number of surveys, a YouTube channel, the pt4me2 Blog and Facebook and Myspace pages.

VisualPlace

VisualPlace brings together information from a wide variety of sources from service locations to demographic data to allow you to create custom maps.

This statistical tool is an extremely powerful resource for transport planners and local government in general, allowing you to view a huge range of transport and demographic data on micro and macro levels. Data includes people who travel to work by car or public transport, through to the location of every rail and tram line and stop in Victoria.

Victorian Transport Statistics Portal

The Victorian Transport Statistics Portal (VTSP) provides access to data that will be of interest to anyone who wants to better understand transport trends in Victoria . Data comes from a number of sources, including the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), VicRoads and the Department of Transport.

The VTSP can be interrogated to profile transport issues at a Local Government Area (LGA) level. For many datasets, it can also provide profiles at the Statistical Local Area (SLA) level, at a State Region level, and at a Statistical Division, Statistical Sub-division or State suburb level. (For definitions of each geographic area, please view the Glossary).

SmartBus

SmartBus is a premium bus service that amongst other things provides more frequent services. This website provides information on the various SmartBus projects and initiatives undertaken to facilitate new SmartBus services.