FUELtrac has been commissioned by AAA to collect petrol price data in each capital city and major regional centres around Australia.

• Petrol Prices

The submission commences with a brief general discussion of the economics of road and rail infrastructure and some implications for pricing; examines the relationship between estimates of road infrastructure costs attributable to Australian heavy vehicle operators and charges paid, both at the aggregate level and for particular road corridors; discusses issues in improving the efficiency of both road and rail freight infrastructure pricing, and finally considers the question of charging for freight externalities.

• Submission to the Productivity Commission Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing Inquiry
  
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Paper given to the 29th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 27–29 September 2006, Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain and David Cosgrove.

• Interstate Freight on States Roads
  
  sp_001_Interstate_Freight.pdf
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BTRE has recently completed estimates of passenger movements by various modes (i.e. air, car, coach and rail) between major Australian cities (covering ten main routes) from 1970–71 to 2003–04 and predicted passenger flows up to 2030–31.

This publication presents monthly information on sales of new motor vehicles in each state/territory in original, seasonally adjusted and trend estimated terms. The original data are sourced from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. Sales data are available for passenger vehicles, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), other vehicles and total vehicles at the state/territory and national levels.

• Sales of New Motor Vehicles

COAG commissioned the Review in February 2006 with a focus on national freight corridors but also examining local networks where they interact with, and impact on, these corridors. The Review report was prepared by a working group of representatives from the Department of Transport and Regional Services, State and Territory government transport and planning agencies and the Australian Local Government Association. The Review was overseen by the COAG Competition and Regulation Working Group. The BTRE provided the Secretariat to the Review.

• COAG Urban Congestion Review Report
  
  cr_001_COAG_Urban_Congestion_Review_Report.pdf
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• Congestion Management Approaches
  
  cr_001_Congestion_Management_Approaches.pdf
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• Freight Smart
  
  cr_001_Freight_Smart.pdf
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• Traffic Management Systems (Urban Motorways)
  
  cr_001_TMS_Urban_Motorways.pdf
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• TMS Urban Non Motorway
  
  cr_001_TMS_Urban_Non-Motorway.pdf
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• Working Paper 71, Estimating Urban Traffic & Congestion Cost Trends for Australian Cities

This analysis is the first in a series of case studies undertaken for the BTRE ex-post road investments evaluation project. The project complements the recent implementation by juristictions of the Australian Transport Council endorsed National Guidelines for Transport System Management in Australia. In particular the project is intended to benefit both future project appraisal and future ex-post evaluation under Auslink and more generally.

• Ex-post economic evaluation of National Highway projects, Case Study 1: Wallaville Bridge
  
  wp_070-1.pdf
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The study deals with the eight Australian capital cities, and presents base case (or business-as-usual) projections to 2020 of avoidable social costs of congestion for Australian metropolitan traffic. This work updates and revises previous congestion cost projections published by the Bureau (such as Information Sheet 14, BTE 1999), and has been completed to inform the Urban Congestion Review, which was commissioned by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG).

• Estimating urban traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian cities
  
  wp_071.pdf
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BTRE's ex-post road investments evaluation project involves systematically reviewing after the fact the projected costs and benefits of major investments. The project complements the recent implementation by jurisdictions of the ATC-endorsed National Guidelines for Transport System Management in Australia. In particular, the project is intended to benefit both future project appraisal and future ex-post evaluation under AusLink and more generally. This analysis was one of the case studies undertaken for the BTRE ex-post road investments evaluation project. The case study provided an example of how to undertake an evaluation of a bypass project involving an improved treatment of delay effects at intersections using the Main Roads Western Australia's WARES evaluation software.

• Ex-post economic evaluation of National Highway projects, Case Study 2: Northam Bypass
  
  wp_070-2.pdf
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Paper given to the 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 25–27 September 2007, Langham Hotel, Melbourne. Authors: Tim Risbey, Hema de Silva, Alicia Tong.

• Road Crash Cost Estimation: A Proposal Incorporating a Decade of Conceptual and Empirical Developments
  
  sp_001_Road_Crash_Cost.pdf
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