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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

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

Funding Characteristics of Transport Research in Australia

The Report is the result of a study of the sources, levels and methods of funding transport research and development (R&D) in Australia, and an investigation of matters pertaining to the effectiveness and efficiency…

Release date: 2 January 1982

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78: General Overview and Assessment

The aim of this Report is to provide a general overview of all aspects of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The topics covered include the survey design and operation, public response to the survey, and corrections appl…

Release date: 2 December 1981

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

National Travel Survey 1977–78: Statistical Adjustments and Final Results

From July 1977 to June 1978, the Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) conducted the National Travel Survey (NTS). This was a major survey of nonurban travel in Australia. This Paper discusses the sources of bias and erro…

Release date: 2 February 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

Statistics

Guidelines for the Conduct of Urban Transport Corridor Studies

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the fourth quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of April, May and June 1978. These statistics are …

Release date: 2 February 1980

Information Sheet

Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS): Description of Outputs from BTE Processing

This Paper describes broad elements of the TRIS data base and of processing performed on it by the BTE. Sufficient detail is presented to permit users of the data base to make convenient and effective use of it for info…

Release date: 2 February 1980

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78, Description of the NTS Data Base

This Paper presents a description of the data base compiled from the information obtained from the National Travel Survey (NTS). The general aim of the NTS was to determine domestic non-urban travel characteristics on a…

Release date: 2 October 1979

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78: Preliminary Statistical Summary June Quarter

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the fourth quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of April, May and June 1978. These statistics are …

Release date: 2 February 1979

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78: Preliminary Statistical Summary: March Quarter

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the third quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of January, February and March 1978. Each summary c…

Release date: 2 October 1978

Research Report

Approach to Developing Transport Improvement Proposals

This Occasional Paper summarises the procedures and findings of a series of investigations undertaken to identify transport disadvantaged groups of urban residents. It clarifies the assumptions underlying the systematic…

Release date: 2 August 1978

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78: Preliminary Statistical Summary December Quarter, 1977

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the second quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of October, November and December 1977. Each summa…

Release date: 2 June 1978

Research Report

National Travel Survey 1977–78 Geographic Zoning and Coding Systems

In this paper, the development of a geographic zoning system used in the sampling processes associated with the National Travel Survey (NTS) is described. Associated with this, the BTE has also produced a coding scheme …

Release date: 2 June 1978