This Report provides an assessment of the status of the Australian Road System and an examination of its future funding requirements.
The Royal Commission into Grain Storage, Handling and Transport, was established on 13 October 1986. One of the objectives of the Commission is to investigate the efficiency with which grain is transported in Australia.
This Information Paper details the costs of road crashes in Australia for 1988. Costs have been grouped into three broad categories: loss of victim; crash generated activities; and pain and suffering.
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.
Efficient road pricing is required both to generate funds which may be used for roadworks and to ration the use of what is an expensive asset.
The cost of road accidents is an important and controversial issue. However, it is difficult to derive an acceptable measure of these costs, and it has been some years since an attempt has been made to quantify these costs to Australia.
This supplementary Information Paper details the social costs of road crashes in Australia for 1988.
This paper contains revision of some data for earlier years as well as statistics for 1985–86 and 1986–87.
This paper provides a simple method for evaluating alternative strategies for road pavement construction and maintenance using a life cycle costing approach.
This Report discusses the objectives of the Australian national highway system, presents statistical information and describes the application of the life cycle costing technique to the pavement evaluation.