Paper given to the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 October–3 October 2008, Gold Coast. Author: David Cosgrove.

• Long-Term Emission Trends for Australian Transport
  
  sp_001_Cosgrove.pdf
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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 report on electric cars).

• Liquefied Petroleum Gas as a Motor Vehicle Fuel
  
  report_011.pdf
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The BTE undertook a study of the possible introduction of electric cars in Australia. The results are presented in this Report.

• Electric Cars
  
  report_013.pdf
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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, demand and price, on transport regulation and on the development of transport technology.

• Transport and Energy in Australia, Part 1–Review
  
  op_002.pdf
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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 efficiency of each major mode of transport is assessed in terms of energy consumption–both direct and indirect.

• Transport and Energy in Australia, Part 2–Consumption by Categories
  
  op_004.pdf
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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 Airsheds
  
  op_006.pdf
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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 impacts of particular transport projects. This report presents the results of a study of the impact of environmental factors on house prices in the Marrickville and Rockdale municipalities of Sydney.

• Impact of Environmental Factors of Relative House Prices
  
  op_007.pdf
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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 the analysis. The study was commissioned following the considerable interest shown in the Electric Car Conference conducted jointly by the Bureau and the Australian Electric Vehicle Association in 1975.

• Urban Passenger Travel: The Role of the Electric Car
  
  op_012.pdf
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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 study, carried out in the Melbourne metropolitan area, was to ascertain whether there were any significant differences in the characteristics which describe the usage pattern of various types of passenger (and other) vehicles, in the context of the measurement of urban emissions and fuel consumption. Such differences would determine whether or not passenger vehicles could be considered to be homogeneous for the purpose of these measurements. This analysis will assist in the assessment of the impact of the Australian urban vehicle fleet enery consumption and emissions production.

• Usage Patterns of Urban Cars: Their Effect on Fuel Consumption and Emissions
  
  op_026.pdf
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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 Paterson Urban Systems was commissioned to undertake an extensive household survey and to develop a set of recreation site usage models for locations in the Geelong region. These data, together with information on environmental usage limits for each site in the region were used in the development of recreational area management programmes.

• Recreation Demand Modelling
  
  op_029.pdf
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