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Health Impacts of Transport Emissions in Australia: Economic Costs

This report is part of a series of BTRE research on the socioeconomic costs of transport impacts and focuses on the health impact costs of motor vehicle emissions in Australian capital cities.Health Impacts of Transport…

Release date: 2 June 2005

Research Report

Is the World Running Out of Oil? A Review of the Debate

The possibility of sustained high world oil prices has fueled concern over long-term supply. The question is particularly relevant for transport as a major user of oil with few viable alternatives. Internationally, ther…

Release date: 2 February 2005

Research Report

Modelling Responses of Urban Freight Patterns to Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scenarios

This paper presents the results of applying a policy model to simulate the effects on greenhouse gas emissions from trucking in Sydney of various abatement scenarios. These include vehicle efficiency scenarios, traffic …

Release date: 2 October 2004

Research Report

Impact of climate change on road infrastructure

There is an increasing body of evidence that the earth's climate is changing with some of the changes attributable to human activities. Climate change can have direct and indirect impacts on road infrastructure. Impact …

Release date: 2 January 2004

Research Report

Appropriateness of a 350 Million Litre Biofuels Target

In July 2003 the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, jointly with BTRE and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, were asked to investigate the appropriateness of maintai…

Release date: 2 December 2003

Research Report

Urban Pollutant Emissions from Motor Vehicles: Australian Trends to 2020

This report presents the results of a BTRE study to estimate likely future levels of noxious pollutant emissions from motor vehicles in Australian metropolitan areas.Urban Pollutant Emissions from Motor Vehicles: Austra…

Release date: 2 June 2003

Research Report

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Transport: A Macro Modelling Approach

This paper presents the results of a Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) study involving a general equilibrium modelling (or 'top-down') approach to deriving projections of greenhouse emissions from the Au…

Release date: 2 February 2003

Research Report

Greenhouse Gas Emissions to 2020: Projected Trends for Australian Transport

BTRE has completed projected greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by the Australian transport sector using two different methods.Greenhouse Gas Emissions to 2020: Projected Trends for Australian Transport

Release date: 2 February 2003

Research Report

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport: Australian Trends to 2020

This report presents the results of a BTRE study to update base case (or 'business-as-usual') projections of greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector. The work was undertaken on behalf of the Australian Greenh…

Release date: 2 November 2002

Information Sheet

Fuel Consumption by New Passenger Vehicles in Australia

BTRE has examined trends in the fuel consumption of new passenger vehicles. The overall trend in fuel consumption was down during the 1980s. However during the 1990s, a more gradual reduction in the fuel consumption of …

Release date: 2 September 2002

Research Report

Greenhouse Policy Options for Transport

This report prepared for the Australian Transport Council reviews international practice in reducing greenhouse emissions in the transport sector against an economic framework.Greenhouse Policy Options for Transport

Release date: 2 May 2002

Research Report

Flood Damage in Tamworth: Costs of the November 2000 Flood

Tamworth NSW experiences frequent flooding, especially in the industrial area of Taminda. The flood in November 2000 provided an opportunity to estimate the cost savings that would have occurred in Taminda if there had …

Release date: 2 September 2001

Information Sheet

Urban Congestion: the Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Urban car travel in Australia is expected to continue to grow appreciably over the next 20 years (by close to 30 per cent) though at a somewhat slower rate of growth than for the last few decades.Urban Congestion: the I…

Release date: 2 May 2000

Research Report

Tradeable Permits in Transport

Article 16 bis was a last-minute addition to the Protocol negotiated in Kyoto in December 1997 at the third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It calls on the Parties…

Release date: 2 March 1998

Information Sheet

Externalities in the Transport Sector

Externalities in the Transport Sector: Key Issues is the first part in a series of Information Sheets that will provide estimates of the costs of externalities generated by road, rail, air and sea transport.Externalitie…

Release date: 2 January 1998

Research Report

Roads, Vehicle Performance and Greenhouse: Costs and Emission Benefits of Smoother Highways

Previous BTCE work (Report 94) has established that reductions in pavement roughness reduce fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions (end-use only) and vehicle operating costs. This Paper evaluates the effects on gree…

Release date: 2 May 1997