AURIN Home - AURIN Skip to content Australia’s spatial intelligence network. Data Catalogue Australia’s spatial intelligence network. MENUMENU Home About What Is AURIN? Annual Report Team Strategy Governance Legal Projects AURIN High Impact Projects AusUrb-HI – Australian Urban Health Indicators Built Environments Biodiversity Project DSpark Mobility Insights Research Impact Publications Resources Research Data Services Data Provider Training Citation Guide Data Tales News Contact 2026 GEOSPATIAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS Peter WOODGATE AWARD Recognise an outstanding geospatial leader. Nominate someone whose collaboration, innovation and impact deserve national recognition.   NOMINATE NOW ACCESS DATA NOW AURIN Data provider Access data through the AURIN Data Provider. ACCESS NOW AURIN PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Infrastructure sustainability council (ISC) AURIN and the Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) have partnered to connect sustainable infrastructure practice, research and evidence-based decision-making. READ MORE AURIN ANnouncement A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Learn more about what AURIN is delivering for Australias urban researchers and decision-makers. READ MORE AURIN FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT NCRIS INVESTMENT SECURED FOR NRI AURIN has received new funding from NCRIS to deliver two key national research infrastructure projects. READ MORE AURIN DATA TALES US VRS THEM Our latest AURIN Data Tale uses DSpark mobility data to explore the geographical boundaries between supporters of Melbourne-based AFL teams. READ MORE AURIN DATA TALES SAME CITY, DIFFERENT WORLDS Kicking off our AURIN Data Tales series exploring inequality in access to services for Greater Perth READ MORE NODE NETWORK INTRODUCING URBANiQ We have launched URBANiQ the AURIN Node for Urban Intelligence for Healthy & Equitable Places. , led by the University of Queensland. Harnessing mobility, environmental, and health data to respond to policy-led challenges. READ MORE GRAND OPENING AURIN HQ Celebrating the official launch of new AURIN HQ. A workspace that reflects AURIN’s mission to support research that benefits Australian communities and urban environments READ MORE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH Announcing the AURIN WA Node  We are excited to announce our first AURIN Node, in partnership with the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) and located at the University of Western Australia (UWA). The AURIN WA Node is the product of our long-standing relationship with PATREC and is supported by co-investment from the WA State Government, UWA and Curtin University. The AURIN WA Node is designed to foster long-term, strategic partnerships with key scientific and higher education institutions to support high-impact research on cities, infrastructure systems, and communities. It will enable critical work on climate change, energy transition, and demographic transformation, supporting researchers and government users, particularly in PATREC’s Climate Action in Transport and Land Use Planning (CATLUP) program. Learn more AURIN IMPACT AURIN and QUT Team Wins UN World Data Forum Competition A team of AURIN and QUT members, under the umbrella of the Australian Data Science Network, have won their thematic category in the UN World Data Forum’s 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition. Their winning story, “Understanding Heat Risk in New South Wales, Australia”, explores how open data maps heat vulnerability across NSW, helping to guide communities toward a resilient future. For more on the teams project, and on the UNWDF competition, see the AURIN blog! Learn more AURIN DATA Access Hard-To-Get Noise Data Noise Mapping Datasets, developed in partnership with Ambient Maps and Geoscape Australia. Transport Noise Overlay and Buildings data is now available on request. Apply now RESEARCH IMPACT Simulating the Movement of Bike Riders in Urban Environments Using data from STRAVA, Riderlog, and urban datasets and tools from AURIN, researchers at the University of New South Wales have developed a simple Agent-Based Model (ABM) to support the planning of new bicycling infrastructure. The model simulates the movements of bike riders in response to the existing built environment and user designed scenarios. Their model simulates how bike riders move through urban streets, and was was designed to replicate riders’ route choices between their home and place of work to find the most used path and see how this was influenced by the built environment and the characteristics of the road. Learn more URBAN HEALTH INDICATORS Acquisition of Key Data for the Australian Urban Health Indicator Project The Australian Urban Health Indicator project (AusUrb-HI) has hit another milestone with the acquisition of individual linked health data at SA1 level. SA1 data is the finest aggregated geography available from the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for statistical analysis of people and place. Accessing data at this level allows us to delve deeply into health records and outcomes to improve our research’s depth and impact. Learn more TELL US WHAT YOU THINK Feedback welcomed At AURIN we continuously strive to exceed your expectations.  Please tell us more about your experiences and research needs. All feedback is incorporated into our future development. Tell us AURIN provides digital research infrastructure and expert eResearch support for urban, regional and social science researchers in academia, government and industry.  AURIN streamlines access to health, transport, housing, economic, land use, demographic, and an extensive catalogue of other data — all integrated to work together. RESEARCH IMPACTS Understanding bikeability to shape healthier, more connected cities. Climate-related disaster risk in Australia: Are risks higher for disadvantaged households? BROWSE ALL RESEARCH IMPACTS MEASURING AGE-FRIENDLINESS OF SUBURBS LATEST NEWS ​AURIN Welcomes Athena Thompson and Dr Nicolò Dalmasso to the Team AURIN welcomes Athena Thompson and Dr Nicolò Dalmasso to the team. Their experience in business, [...] 12 Aug ​AURIN to help deliver two major national research infrastructure projects AURIN is set to lead major new national research initiatives on urban climate risk and [...] 19 Jun AURIN and Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) partner to strengthen sustainable infrastructure research impact AURIN now offers Healthdirect Australia’s 2025 NHSD through the ADP, giving researchers geocoded health service [...] 11 Jun National Health Services Directory available via the AURIN Data Provider AURIN now offers Healthdirect Australia’s 2025 NHSD through the ADP, giving researchers geocoded health service [...] 03 Jun AURIN in the media: Exploring AURIN’s national role in urban research Read Spatial Source’s two-part interview series with AURIN Director Professor Pascal Perez exploring the future [...] 08 May AURIN Data Tales: Us Vrs Them – DSpark Mobility Data Reveals AFL Supporter Location vrs Loyalty Us versus Them is an interactive AURIN Data Tale exploring how anonymised human mobility data [...] 25 Feb A message from our Director February 6, 2026 Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is a national digital research infrastructure, funded by the [...] AURIN Data Tales: Same City, Different Worlds – A tale of two suburbs If a picture tells a thousand words, a map can tell a million.  AURIN is [...] 30 Jan BROWSE ALL LATEST NEWS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Stay up to date with AURIN News, Data Releases and Research Impact Stories by subscribing to our newsletter. 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