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Marine Oil Spill Risk in Australia

Oil spills are basically chance events, their occurrences and characteristics being governed by probability distributions. Many properties of these distributions can be applied, with reasonable confidence, to the predic…

Release date: 2 March 1983

Research Report

Energy Policies and Company Cars: An Application of Experimental Design Methods in Economic Research

Company cars account for more than a third of new car sales in Australia. Since company cars seem generally larger and less fuel-efficient than average and since they appear to travel greater distances and are replaced …

Release date: 2 June 1981

Research Report

Freight Transport Energy Consumption: A Comparison Between the Efficiency of the Modes in the Non-Bulk Task

The work reported in this paper has been undertaken because of a concern for a general tendency in the transport community to make sweeping statements about the desirability of diverting traffic from one mode to another…

Release date: 2 June 1981

Research Report

Economic Analysis of Non-Price Rationing With Particular Reference to Petrol

A thesis that no longer provokes comment is that domestic fuel supplies are likely to be curtailed suddenly and without warning. An idea less well established, but one that has widespread intuitive appeal, is that non-p…

Release date: 2 May 1981

Research Report

Consumption of Transport Energy in Australia 1975–76

This Paper represents the second study into the estimation of the consumption of energy by Australian transport. The results of the first study were published in Occasional Paper 4 which was based on data for the year s…

Release date: 2 November 1980

Research Report

Vehicle Driving Patterns and Measurement Methods for Energy and Emissions Assessment

Urban air quality management is concerned with comparing two kinds of costs: those arising out of increased levels of air pollution and those involved in implementing an abatement program. This report is concerned with …

Release date: 2 December 1978

Research Report

Recreation Demand Modelling

During 1976 and 1977 the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation and the Geelong Regional Planning Authority undertook a major study of recreational activity in the Geelong area. As part of that study, John …

Release date: 2 November 1978

Research Report

Usage Patterns of Urban Cars: Their Effect on Fuel Consumption and Emissions

This report examines the hypothesis that there are no significant differences in the urban usage characteristics of various sized passenger vehicles, and discusses some implications of these results. The purpose of this…

Release date: 2 September 1978

Research Report

Urban Passenger Travel: The Role of the Electric Car

This report examines the market for battery powered electric passenger vehicles suitable for use in major urban areas in Australia. A typical specification for an electric passenger vehicle has been used as the basis of…

Release date: 2 December 1977

Research Report

Impact of Environmental Factors of Relative House Prices

In the past, very little attention has been given to establishing the relationship between environmental factors and real estate values. This relationship is an important input to the evaluation of the environmental imp…

Release date: 2 March 1977

Research Report

Photochemical Pollution in Australian Airsheds

This report examines the factors which control the formation of photochemical smog in urban airsheds and reviews the present situation which exists in major Australian cities.Photochemical Pollution in Australian Airshe…

Release date: 2 March 1977

Research Report

Transport and Energy in Australia, Part 2—Consumption by Categories

This report investigates the current level of energy consumption by various categories of Australian transport. It examines the present Australian transport task and the associated levels of energy consumption. The effi…

Release date: 2 August 1975

Research Report

Transport and Energy in Australia, Part 1—Review

This report contains a survey of recent Australian and overseas literature on the availability and use of energy for transport. This study is provided with a view to improving the basis for decisions on energy supply, d…

Release date: 2 April 1975

Research Report

Electric Cars

The BTE undertook a study of the possible introduction of electric cars in Australia. The results are presented in this Report. Electric Cars

Release date: 2 April 1974

Research Report

Liquefied Petroleum Gas as a Motor Vehicle Fuel

This Report is one of two that have been prepared in the BTE to review the state of knowledge in the field of alternative road vehicle technologies and to indicate the magnitude of possible benefits (the other being a r…

Release date: 2 January 1974