This Occasional Paper reports on an analysis of the factors affecting the demand for international air travel. This analysis serves as a basis for forecasting the response of demand to changes in key policy variables, in particular fares and some aspects of the level of service. The implications for demand for travel to and from Australia of several alternative fare service packages are presented.

• Factors Affecting Demand for International Travel to and from Australia
  
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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
  
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A knowledge of bus maintenance costs and how they vary with bus age is of value in a number of applications. Of particular interest to BTE is the importance of bus maintenance costs to optimal bus replacement strategies. The report summarises the Aggregate Bus Maintenance Studies of six bus operators in Australian capital cities and isolates the major variables influencing both maintenance and servicing costs.

• Aggregate Bus Maintenance Costs
  
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This paper describes an econometric model designed for Australian economic forecasting in the medium term (from 5 to 10 years). The paper also gives the results of applying the model to predict annual national expenditure and product, in the aggregate and by main components, over the period 1976 to 1983.

• Model for Medium Term Economic Forecasting: Projections of Australian Income and Expenditure
  
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The importance of an efficient transport system for Australia is self-evident. Not surprisingly, both public investment and government legislation have been employed to develop transport networks over time. Domestic air transport is a most important component of the Australian transport sector. Any inquiry into the status and future of domestic air transport policies is clearly an important study, and the current Department of Transport Review of Domestic Air Transport Policy has particularly wide implications. This Paper was originally prepared by BTE in response to a general request by the Department of Transport for submissions on domestic air transport policies in Australia. Only minor revisions have been made.

• Australian Domestic Air Transport : Some Economic Issues
  
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Transport planning in urban areas is a complex task demanding consideration not only of transport problems, but also of land-use planning and the provision of other services. A range of service and planning agencies and interest groups are involved directly and indirectly in transport planning and they interact at various stages and in various ways throughout the planning process. The effectiveness of this process and consequently the quality of transport services provided, depends to an important degree on the interaction between these bodies.

• Discussion Paper on Transport Planning in Sydney to 1975
  
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Transport planning and research has placed considerable emphasis on the movement of people but comparatively little on the movement of goods. Such neglect prompted the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads to sponsor a Workshop on Urban Goods Movement in January 1975 as a means of gaining an insight into the topic.

• Urban Goods Movement in Sydney
  
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The NTS is a postal survey being conducted over a twelve-month period between July 1977 and June 1978. Its general aim is to determine domestic non-urban travel characteristics on a fully national basis. All modes of travel are to be encompassed, and the seasonal nature of this travel will also be identified. This Occasional Paper discusses the geographical distribution of this total sample.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78 Determination of Regional Sample Sizes
  
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This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the first three months of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of July, August and September 1977. These statistics are preliminary in the sense that they represent the results of an analysis of only the postal survey results. No corrections for sample bias and so on have been made at this stage.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78 Preliminary Statistical Summary September Quarter, 1977
  
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Planners in all spheres of activity are demonstrating an increasing interest in the use of public participation as a planning tool. Despite this interest, there has been little documentation and research drawing on the participation experience in planning in Australia. This paper presents an inventory of Australian public participation experience compiled from a survey of Australian transport authorities and selected consultants.

• Public Participation in Transport Planning–Australia
  
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