This Paper has been prepared to provide input to the major Australian road system study conducted by the Bureau of Transport Economics, the results of which are presented in the Report 'Assessment of the Australian Road System: 1984'.

• Assessment of the Australian Road System: Provision of Roads in Local Government Areas
  
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Decisions on road reconstruction and rehabilitation are based on a combination of engineering, economic, financial and social considerations. Rigorous analysis in support of such decisions is necessarily extremely complex. At an aggregate level, however, it is clear that the possession of an asset (such as a road network) whose components are subject to deterioration and have finite lives imposes a maintenance requirement if the quality and value of the asset is to be preserved.

• Pavement Age and the Future Need for Road Reconstruction
  
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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 employment effects of road construction activity. Other papers from the same project have examined regional development effects, and certain tools for evaluating benefits.

• Employment Effects of Road Construction
  
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What role should the private sector play in road provision? Private contractors already perform a fair amount of the design, construction and maintenance of Australia's publicly owned roads. The evidence reviewed in this paper indicates benefits from further contracting out of road work to the private sector. In many cases, contracting out of road maintenance has reduced costs by 15 per cent or more. The evidence is less conclusive on the benefits of private investment in roads. Whether private toll roads are more efficient than other arrangements for road provision needs to be carefully examined case by case. Public ownership could be a better option than private ownership for some toll roads.

• Benefits of Private Sector Involvement In Road Provision: A Look at the Evidence
  
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This publication provides the 2011 update of BITRE's Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index.

• BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index–2011 update
  
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This Report presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1969–70 to 1980–81.

• Road Construction Price Indexes 1969–70 to 1980–81
  
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This Information Paper presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1971–72 to 1981–82. This is part of a series which commenced in 1969–70.

• BTE Road Construction Price Indexes 1971–72 to 1981–82
  
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This Information Paper presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1972–73 to 1982–83. This is part of a series which commenced in 1969–70.

• BTE Road Construction Price Indexes: 1972–73 to 1982–83
  
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This Information Paper presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1973–74 to 1983–84. Earlier values of the indexes going back to 1969–70, can be found in BTE Report 49, Road Construction Price Indexes: 1969–70 to 1980–81. The BTE has compiled these indexes for use in its studies of the Australian road system. The indexes are also being published to assist those who require up-to-date information on movements in the prices of inputs to road construction.

• BTE Road Construction Price Indexes: 1973–74 to 1983–84
  
  ip_012.pdf
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This Information Paper presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1974–75 to 1984–85. Earlier values of the indexes, going back to 1969–70, can be found in BTE Report 49, Road Construction Price Indexes: 1969–70 to 1980–81. The BTE has compiled these indexes for use in its studies of the Australian road system. The indexes are also being published to assist those who require up-to-date information on movements in the prices of inputs to road construction.

• BTE Road Construction Price Indexes: 1974–75 to 1984–85
  
  ip_015.pdf
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