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Employment Effects of Road Construction

The Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics (BTCE) is examining a number of issues in measuring the benefits of transport infrastructure investment. The issue examined in this paper is how to estimate the emplo…

Release date: 2 December 1996

Statistics

BTCE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index

The revised Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics road construction and maintenance price index (RCMPI) is designed to allow the Australian road industry to monitor price movements of inputs to road construct…

Release date: 2 October 1996

Research Report

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

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

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

Evaluation of the Black Spot Program

This study evaluates the economic benefits of the Federal Government's Black Spot Program. The study assesses the crash reduction benefits of a variety of road engineering treatments based on a sample of 254 projects dr…

Release date: 2 May 1995

Research Report

Urban Congestion: Modelling Traffic Patterns, Delays and Optimal Tolls

This Paper provides an account of preliminary work on urban traffic congestion that forms part of the BTCE project on Urban Transport Externalities. The project is concerned with a range of external impacts of urban tra…

Release date: 2 May 1995

Information Sheet

Cost of Road Crashes in Australia—1993

Road crashes cost Australia $6.1 billion in 1993. Road crash costs account for over 90% of the total cost of transport-related accidents in Australia.Cost of Road Crashes in Australia–1993

Release date: 2 October 1993

Research Report

Cost—Effectiveness of 'Black Spot' Treatments : A Pilot Study

This Paper presents the results of an evaluation of 51 'Black Spot' projects funded by the Australian Government, 26 in Victoria and 25 in New South Wales. The evaluation was based on the record of accidents before and …

Release date: 2 October 1993

Research Report

Roads Policy and Australian Federalism

While a great deal has been written on the theory and application of optimal road price and investment policy, relatively little attention has been given to the subject of roads policy in practice. This monograph's main…

Release date: 2 October 1993

Research Report

The Road Freight Transport Industry

Data and information on the road freight transport industry is in limited supply. In order to reduce this problem, the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics undertook this overview of the road freight transpo…

Release date: 2 March 1993

Research Report

Road Transport Reforms—Implications for Rural and Remote Areas

Concerns have been expressed that the introduction of a national system of road user charging for heavy vehicles could adversely affect transport operators, consumers and producers in rural and remote areas of Australia…

Release date: 2 July 1992

Research Report

The Cost of Maintaining the Australian National Highway System

This Report discusses the objectives of the Australian national highway system, presents statistical information and describes the application of the life cycle costing technique to the pavement evaluation.The Cost of M…

Release date: 2 July 1992

Research Report

Relative Efficiencies in the Transportation of Commodities

This Report assesses the relative efficiencies of road and rail in the transportation of several bulk commodities. The work explores potential constraints to the efficient transportation of bulk commodities, including t…

Release date: 2 January 1992

Research Report

Pavement Management: Development of a Life Cycle Costing Technique

This paper provides a simple method for evaluating alternative strategies for road pavement construction and maintenance using a life cycle costing approach.Pavement Management: Development of a Life Cycle Costing Techn…

Release date: 2 July 1990