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Avline No. 11— January 2008

The feature article examines the aviation industry's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the steps being taken both domestically and internationally to quantify the problem and to reduce aviation emissions.The …

Release date: 2 January 2008

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Regional economic growth: BITRE's taxable income database (2007 update)

This is the 2007 update of BITRE's economic growth database. For the latest update of the database, please click here Regional economic growth database update 2005–06. The taxable income database contains small-area …

Release date: 2 January 2008

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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

cargo ship on cover of Waterline 43 report

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Waterline 43—January 2008

Waterline reports on import and export costs and trends in container handling productivity in ports in Australia.

Release date: 2 January 2008

Cover of sea freight publication 2005-06

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Australian sea freight 2005–06

Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits.

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.

Release date: 2 July 2007

black and white image of cargo ship on cover of Waterline 42 report

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Waterline No 42—July 2007

Waterline reports on import and export costs and trends in container handling productivity in Australian ports.

Release date: 2 July 2007

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Australian rail freight performance indicators 2005–06

In 2002, the ATC approved a set of 6 targets and indicators to measure performance improvements of the interstate rail track over time. Early reports against the indicators were derived entirely from track managers' (be…

Release date: 2 June 2007

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Australian sea freight 2004–05

Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits.

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