Resource library

Regional economic growth: BITRE's taxable income database

This economic growth update builds on information paper 54, Focus on regions 3–Taxable Income. The taxable income database contains small-area data from 1980–81 to 2004–05 on a number of indicators. The main indicato…

Release date: 2 January 2008

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Waterline 43—January 2008

Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia as well as the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers both the unloading of container ships and the transport …

Release date: 2 January 2008

Cover of sea freight publication 2005-06

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Australian Sea Freight 2005–2006

The Australian Sea Freight series presents statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, as well as information on port activity, fleet structure, and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freig…

Release date: 2 November 2007

Research Report

Road Crash Cost Estimation: A Proposal Incorporating a Decade of Conceptual and Empirical Developments

Paper given to the 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 25–27 September 2007, Langham Hotel, Melbourne. Authors: Tim Risbey, Hema de Silva, Alicia Tong. Road Crash Cost Estimation: A Proposal Incorporating a Deca…

Release date: 2 October 2007

Research Report

The pitfalls in competitive tendering: addressing the risks revealed by experience in Australia and Britain

Paper presented to European Conference of Ministers of Transport "Workshop on Competitive Tendering for Rail Services" held in Paris on 12 January 2006. Paper to be published in forthcoming ECMT Workshop Proceedings. Au…

Release date: 2 September 2007

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Avline No 10—August 2007

The feature article examines the operational changes in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movements at Australia's five major airports (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth) over the decade 1997–2006. T…

Release date: 2 August 2007

Research Report

Ex-post economic evaluation of National Highway projects, Case Study 2: Northam Bypass

BTRE's ex-post road investments evaluation project involves systematically reviewing after the fact the projected costs and benefits of major investments. The project complements the recent implementation by jurisdictio…

Release date: 2 August 2007

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International Freight to/from Australia

The Excel file below contains tables showing the value and weight of Australian international imports and exports each quarter, by sea freight (liner and non-liner) and by air. The time series covers the period from 3rd…

Release date: 2 August 2007

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Road Construction Maintenance Price Index

The index measures movements in prices of inputs used in roadworks including materials, equipment, fuel and labour. For details of how the index was constructed, see BTCE, Road Construction Price Index, Information Pape…

Release date: 2 August 2007

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Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme BTRE Monitoring Report No. 10

This report presents the results of BTRE's tenth annual review of the Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme. It covers the operation and impact of the Scheme up to and including 2005–06.

Release date: 2 July 2007

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Waterline No 42—July 2007

This edition of Waterline includes an article on the Maritime Crew visa which started on 1 July 2007.Waterline 42 also incorporates a new section which will be ongoing, in the same way as the other sections of Waterline…

Release date: 2 July 2007

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Australian rail freight performance indicators 2005–06

In 2002, the ATC approved a set of six targets and indicators to measure improvements over time in performance of the interstate rail track. Early reports against the indicators were derived entirely from track managers…

Release date: 2 June 2007

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Australian Sea Freight 2004–05

The Australian Sea Freight series presents statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, as well as information on port activity, fleet structure, and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freig…

Release date: 2 June 2007

Research Report

BTRE 2007 Transport Colloquium—Australian Transport and the Challenge of Growth

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rothengatter is an internationally recognised authority on the application of transport theory to policymaking. He is head of the Institute of Economic Policy Research and the Unit of Transpor…

Release date: 2 June 2007

Research Report

Estimating urban traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian cities

The study deals with the eight Australian capital cities, and presents base case (or business-as-usual) projections to 2020 of avoidable social costs of congestion for Australian metropolitan traffic. This work updates …

Release date: 2 June 2007

Research Report

Ex-post economic evaluation of National Highway projects, Case Study 1: Wallaville Bridge

This analysis is the first in a series of case studies undertaken for the BTRE ex-post road investments evaluation project. The project complements the recent implementation by juristictions of the Australian Transport …

Release date: 2 June 2007