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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Paper given to the 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, 29 September–1 October 2010, Canberra. Authors: Hema de Silva, Anatoli Lightfoot.

• Commuting to Work by Private Vehicle in Melbourne: Trends and Policy Implications
  
  sp_002_deSilva_Lightfoot.pdf
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Paper given to the 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 28–30 September 2011, Adelaide.Authors: David Gargett, Mark Cregan, David Cosgrove.

• The Spread of Technologies Through the Vehicle Fleet
  
  sp_004_Gargett_Cregan_Cosgrove.pdf
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The general approach in this Report is to concentrate on the costs directly borne by wool at the various stages of ownership from grower to mill. However, these costs are reflected in income accruing to others and the conflicts of interest this fact creates are not lost sight of in the report.

• Transport and Handling of Australia's Wool Production
  
  report_002.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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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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Considerable disagreement exists on an appropriate system of road user charges and road investment policies. While some work in this important area of resourse allocation has been done in other countries, until recently little investigatory research has been carried out in Australia. This study considers all roads other than access roads with the essential objective being to show up the deficiencies in the cost responsibility approach to road pricing by emphasising the joint cost characteristics of roads. The approach of the study team has been to derive a reasonable set of relative road pricing strategies, given the cost of supplying the road network, based on the demand characteristics of road users.

• Road User Charges: Theories and Possibilities
  
  op_003.pdf
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This Report presents the results of a consumer preference survey into bus design and bus service characteristics. The survey was conducted by the BTE together with the Metropolitan (Perth) Transport Trust, and consisted of two parts: household interviews carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics; and questionnaires distributed to travellers using the Perth suburban bus service.

• Part A: Consumer Preferences in Urban Buses and Bus Services
  
  report_022_partA.pdf
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• Part B: Consumer Preferences in Urban Buses and Bus Services
  
  report_022_partB.pdf
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• Part C: Consumer Preferences in Urban Buses and Bus Services
  
  report_022_partC.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 particular Paper describes the methods used to determine sample frameworks and sizes for the National Trend Survey (NTS), and also outlines the methods finally adopted for selecting a sample.

• Sampling Processes for the National Travel Survey
  
  op_005.pdf
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