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Valuing Transport Safety in Australia

The value of transport safety is an important input to decisions on policies and investments with safety implications and for measuring the burden of transport accidents to the community. There are a number of approache…

Release date: 2 September 1996

Statistics

Waterline No 8—September 1996

This issue of Waterline includes the regular articles on stevedoring performance, port interface costs and port performance. A feature article provides an overview of the non-containerised general cargo sector.Waterline…

Release date: 2 September 1996

Research Report

General Aviation Flying in Australia

This report examines the state of General Aviation (GA) flying in Australia. It is primarily based on a Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics survey of GA undertaken in 1994, which provided a snapshot of the …

Release date: 2 July 1996

Research Report

Econometric Evidence on the Benefits of Infrastructure Investment: an Australian Perspective

This Working Paper forms part of a research project investigating into certain issues concerned with measuring the benefits of investment in transport infrastructure. The focus of the project is on possible benefits fro…

Release date: 2 May 1996

Research Report

Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Cars: an Application of the BTCE CARMOD Model

Policy instruments evaluated in this working paper are the accelerated implementation of fuel efficiency technology for new cars, the accelerated scrappage of highly polluting vehicles, tighter emission standards for ne…

Release date: 2 April 1996

Research Report

Trees and Greenhouse: Costs of Sequestering Australian Transport Emissions

The aim of this Working Paper is to estimate the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions by using a sink rather than by reducing the amount of travel or fuel usage. Because the sink can also be applied to other sectors of…

Release date: 2 April 1996

Research Report

Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Road Freight Vehicles: An Application of the BTCE TRUCKMOD Model

TRUCKMOD is BTCE's model of the Australian road freight vehicle fleet. It was designed principally to estimate the dynamic effects of policies that alter the distribution of the vehicle task. As far as BTCE is aware thi…

Release date: 2 March 1996

Research Report

Traffic Congestion and Road User Charges in Australian Capital Cities

Urban travel behaviour is very complex. Analysts have tried to capture its main features in models that provide estimates of the levels and patterns of traffic on the urban road network. While the models are correspondi…

Release date: 2 March 1996

Research Report

Transport and Greenhouse: Costs and Options for Reducing Emissions

Despite popular interest in the contribution of transport to emissions of greenhouse gases, little comprehensive information has been published to date on the costs and effectiveness of the various abatement measures es…

Release date: 2 March 1996

Research Report

Code Sharing in International Aviation: a Discussion Paper

This Paper has been produced to inform debate on an issue of growing significance in the aviation industry. The increasing incidence of code sharing between airlines has met with a mixed reception within the industry an…

Release date: 2 February 1996

Research Report

Trading Greenhouse Emissions: Some Australian Perspectives

A collection of contributions by leading Australians in the field, this publication presents a range of perspectives on domestic and international trading of greenhouse emissions. It contains a high-level view of Articl…

Release date: 2 January 1996

Information Sheet

Costs of Maritime Accidents in Australia—1993

BTCE (1992) Social cost of transport accidents in Australia, Report 79, p. 52, estimated the total cost of rail accidents in 1988 as $94.5 million (in 1988 dollars). The Information Sheet table provides updated estimate…

Release date: 2 December 1995

Research Report

Demand Elasticities for Air Travel to and from Australia

This Working Paper explains why sound demand elasticities are of key importance to any assessment of the impact on passenger demand of changes to air services or aviation infrastructure. Using quarterly data from 1986 t…

Release date: 2 December 1995

Research Report

General Aviation Survey Preliminary Results

During 1994 BTCE conducted a series of surveys of the General Aviation (GA) industry. These were the BTCE Survey of General Aviation 1994 (Air Operator Certificate Holders), which covered commercial GA operators and the…

Release date: 2 November 1995

Research Report

Analysis of the Rail Deficit

The aim of this study is to find out if railways are improving their financial performance following the industry reform programs initiated by the State and Commonwealth Governments in the 1980s.Analysis of the Rail Def…

Release date: 2 October 1995

Research Report

Economic Effects of a Brisbane—Melbourne Inland Railway

Like some other freight-oriented rail investments, the inland railway has been advocated partly on the grounds that it will stimulate the economies of some rural regions. Examined in this paper are the effects of inland…

Release date: 2 June 1995