What happens to a city’s economy when people stop commuting into it?
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The National Broadband Network was arriving. Working from local neighbourhoods was about to become possible at scale, and spending follows people.
Spatial analysis of commuting, spending and housing found that around $4 billion in discretionary spending flowed out of Melbourne’s suburbs and into the city as a consequence of commuting.
The same analysis traced how a shift to remote work could affect house prices, traffic volumes and the daily pattern of urban life.
The work identified suburban centres as the likely destination for that spending if commuting fell, and Telstra used it publicly to explain what the network would mean for household budgets and urban infrastructure.
