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Overview of Australian Road Freight Industry: Submission to National Inquiry 1983

The main aim of this Occasional Paper is to provide the background to the operations of this industry for consideration by the National Road Freight Industry Inquiry and other interested parties. The paper also identifi…

Release date: 2 October 1983

Research Report

Employment and Mobility Characteristics of Australian Merchant Navy Personnel

This study was undertaken to assist in the development of manpower policies for the Australian merchant navy. More specifically the objectives were to review the recent recruitment, promotion and wastage characteristics…

Release date: 2 September 1983

Research Report

Mathematical Techniques for Estimation of the Value of Travel Time Savings: A Review

This Paper has been prepared as part of an investigation into the value of travel time savings. It follows on from the work reported in the Bureau of Transport Economics Occasional Paper 51 which found that little confi…

Release date: 2 May 1983

Research Report

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

Statistics

BTE Road Construction Price Indexes 1971–72 to 1981–82

This Information Paper presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1971–72 to 1981–82. This is part of a series which commenced in 1969–70.BTE Road Construction Price Indexes 1971…

Release date: 2 January 1983

Research Report

Australian Rail Freight Movements 1979–80

This Information Paper identifies for 1979–80 the freight movements which occurred on Australian railways and the sizes of particular flows. To a large extent this Information Paper represents an update of an earlier Bu…

Release date: 2 December 1982

Research Report

Evaluation of the Construction and Operation of Navigational Aids in Hydrographers Passage

The study shows that the coal export trade from the port of Hay Point will provide most of the shipping which will use Hydrographers Passage.Evaluation of the Construction and Operation of Navigational Aids in Hydrograp…

Release date: 2 December 1982

Statistics

Australian Road Financing Statistics 1970–71 to 1979–80

This paper provides a consistent series of road expenditure data by Commonwealth, State and local government over the 10 years 1970–71 to 1979–80. It does not include data on road expenditure by the private sector (e.g.…

Release date: 2 September 1982

Research Report

Assessment of the Australian Road System: A Case Study in Gunning Shire, NSW

This Paper presents the results of a study on the performance of roads in a small and therefore more simply analysed region. A road user's view was adopted for performance evaluation during the study and the report's st…

Release date: 2 July 1982

Research Report

Transport of the Disabled in the ACT

The main aim of this Paper is to take a step towards filling the gap in the information available on the transport needs of the disabled. In particular, the travel behaviour and preferences of disabled people in Canberr…

Release date: 2 July 1982

Research Report

The Future of Urban Passenger Transport: A Delphi Survey

This paper describes a small-scale Delphi survey of participants in a BTE workshop, held to discuss the Future of Urban Passenger Transport in Australia. The survey was not central to the workshop, but rather the worksh…

Release date: 2 April 1982

Research Report

Airport Runway Capacity and Delay: Some Models for Planners and Managers

This Paper seeks to provide an understanding of runway capacity and of the factors on which it depends. The analysis is incorporated in a set of easy-to-use models for the estimation of delays to aircraft under any give…

Release date: 2 March 1982

Statistics

An Estimate of Operating Costs for Bulk, Ro-ro and Container Ships

Estimates of the operating costs of ships are central to the analysis of a range of issues in shipping and ports investment and operations. As part of BTE studies a substantial body of information on ships operations ha…

Release date: 2 March 1982

Research Report

The Value of Travel Time Savings in Public Sector Evaluation

This Paper has been prepared in response to a general concern that value of time in transport analysis, while acknowledged to be important, was not being accorded that importance in practice. At the outset it was hoped …

Release date: 2 March 1982

Research Report

Road Financing in Selected Countries

This Occasional Paper compares road expenditure and road user taxation in Australia with that in five overseas countries (Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand and USA). These five countries we…

Release date: 2 February 1982

Research Report

Cargo Centralisation in the Overseas Liner Trade

With the introduction of cellular container ships in the overseas liner trades, cargo which had traditionally been handled at many ports around Australia was centralised on a few major ports. This change had had a subst…

Release date: 2 January 1982