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October 10, 2016 12:35 am GMT

Uber shares data to show how the Australian commute is still horrible

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Uber drivers are on the road every hour of the day, but the data they generate about traffic and average travel times has been mostly unavailable to outsiders.

In a new move for the company locally, Uber has partnered with policy group Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) to produce the IPA Transport Metric, a report intended to inform government decision making on road and transport investment.

Announced Monday, the metric measures "road network performance" in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney and uses Uber trip data to drill down into average travel times at different hours of the day. Read more...

More about Ipa Transport Metric, Transport, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, Uber, and Australia

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