Abstract: Work journeys make up a significant proportion of the travel profile, and with the demand that work journeys place on transport infrastructure at weekday peak congestion times, work journey data provides a valuable input to model current and future transport planning and service provisions. As the population of Victoria increases, managing growth becomes progressively important. Victoria in Future 2008 figures project regional Victoria’s population to grow by almost half a million people by 2036 (Department of Planning and Community Development, 2009). The Victorian Government has committed to creating “A Prosperous Regional Victoria”, ensuring that population growth is balanced and regional centres are ‘thriving’, creating a ‘state of many choices’, particularly greater living and working opportunities (Regional Development Victoria, 2011). Taking regional growth into consideration, the purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between regional areas and Melbourne. Journey to Work data in 2006 indicated that almost 11,000 work journeys to the Melbourne Statistical Division (MSD) were from the major regional LGAs of Ballarat, Greater Bendigo, Greater Geelong, and Latrobe. Time series census data indicates that in these four regional LGAs the number of employed residents increased by almost 24 percent (to over 192,000) between 1996 and 2006 (ABS, 1996, 2001, 2006). An increasing labour force places an increased demand on transport systems and infrastructure particularly in peak congestion periods. Given the number of work journeys generated from these LGAs and their contribution to peak period congestion, this paper investigates journeys from these four regional LGAs across the three Census periods of 1996, 2001 and 2006. Analysing historical trends in work journeys from regional LGAs to the MSD may provide a stronger understanding of transport demand. Further, understanding inter regional connectivity becomes increasingly important to adequately manage transport demand and the delivery of regional transport services. Utilising the journey to work data, this paper also analyses historical patterns of work journeys between the regional LGAs, providing a basis for understanding future regional transport priorities. Historical trends in mode share may provide an evidence base for informed decision making in transport service planning. Therefore, this paper will investigate the trend in travel modes from regional LGAs across the three census periods.