Transport Policy • Political Tech • Urban Advocacy
Transport is equity.
I build the tools that prove it.
Transport policy developer, data engineer, and political tech builder. Scoring Melbourne's transit network, costing the fixes, and building the organizations that make urbanist advocacy effective.
About
I build the
infrastructure of urbanist advocacy
I work at the intersection of transport policy, data engineering, and political technology. From scoring every Melbourne train station on public transport access to building Discord governance systems for political parties, I build the infrastructure that makes urbanist advocacy more effective.
My work is grounded in the conviction that transport equity is the defining social and economic challenge of Australian cities — and that the technical and political tools to solve it already exist, they just need to be built and wielded.
I've authored the Moving Melbourne white paper, built the Transport Score campaign tool for Fusion Party, launched The Urban Party advocacy organization, and built governance infrastructure for political organizations. I'm currently focused on making transport inequality undeniable — address by address, suburb by suburb.
Transport Policy
Moving Melbourne, operations-first framework, utility standard
Data & Scoring
GTFS processing, Rust engines, address-level transport scores
Political Tech
Discord governance, NationBuilder, campaign infrastructure
Advocacy Building
Community organizing, submissions, plain-language urbanism
Policy & Campaign Work
Costing the fix,
not just the problem
Every project pairs a diagnosis with a real, costed solution. No commentary without a number attached.
Fusion Party
Moving Melbourne
A 25-Year Plan for Modernising Melbourne's Public & Active Transport
A comprehensive policy framework covering high-frequency rail, 10-minute bus grids, transit-oriented development, regional connectivity, and financial sustainability.
Fusion Party
Transport Score
Address-Level Public Transport Scoring for Melbourne
A campaign tool scoring every Melbourne public transport stop on a 0-100 scale using PTV GTFS data, paired with a costed network plan to fix identified deficiencies.
Personal Project
Transport Values
A Nine-Axis Transit Policy Quiz
Scores your transit-policy priorities across nine independent axes — density vs sprawl, operations vs infrastructure, public vs market, and more.
The Urban Party
The Urban Party
Urbanist Advocacy & Community Organization
An urbanist advocacy organization making formal submissions to planning processes, translating urbanist concepts for general audiences, and building an organized community.
Projects
Tools, engines, and
infrastructure
From Rust GTFS engines to Discord governance bots — the technical work that powers the advocacy.
The Urban Party
Transport Inequality Engine
A Rust GTFS processing engine that scores Melbourne public transport stops on frequency, coverage, and reliability from PTV timetable data.
Fusion Party
Aometry — Political Governance Bot
A modular Discord bot powering Fusion Party Australia's governance workflows — NCAP voting protocol, social media authorisation with LLM risk assessment.
Fusion Party
Fusion NationBuilder Theme
A Bootstrap 4-based NationBuilder theme with Fusion Party branding, layout templates, and page templates for the party's digital presence.
Personal
Chronicle
A narrative-driven political simulation game with a "situation room" aesthetic — model party dynamics, governance stress, and electoral strategy.
Blog
Writing on transport,
tech, and urbanism
Policy analysis, technical deep-dives, and thinking out loud about how to build better cities.
Melbourne's Bus Network Is a Policy Failure — Here's How to Fix It
Buses carry 21% of Melbourne's public transport patronage but receive a fraction of the investment. The Department of Transport's own recommended reform was rejected by Cabinet. Here's what needs to happen.
7 min read
The Utility Standard: Transit as a Non-Negotiable Right
Melbourne's public transport is based on scheduled scarcity — deliberately infrequent services designed to manage demand rather than meet it. The Utility Standard flips that entirely.
6 min read
The Operations-First Framework: Why Running the Service Beats Building the Monument
Victoria's transport infrastructure strategy is backwards. We build monuments first and ask about operations later. Here's a framework to fix that.
8 min read
Get in touch
Working on something
worth building?
If you're working on transport policy, urban advocacy, or political tech — I'd love to hear from you.
ethan@ethancornwill.au