This information sheet provides a summary of key trends in regional aviation Australia from 1984 to 2012. It is a brief update to Report 130 on Air transport services in regional Australia (2011 update).

• Air transport service trends in regional Australia (2013 update)
  
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This report updates and supersedes the time series statistics presented in Report 115 and Information sheet 35 on Air transport services in regional Australia: trends and access. It updates the data (to 2012) and the geographic basis of the analysis.

• Air Transport Service Trends in Regional Australia–2011 update
  
  report_130.pdf
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Paper given to the 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 28–30 September 2011, Adelaide. Authors: Hema de Silva, Leanne Johnson, Karen Wade.

• Long Distance Commuters in Australia: A Socio-Economic and Demographic Profile
  
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The rapid development of mining in the Pilbara region of north west Australia has already increased the transport task in the region and is expected to increase it much more. In the past, there has been little land transport to the north west, and the major service has been by sea.

In the fluid situation generated by rapid development, it is important to ask how the freight task should be performed in future, whether the shares carried by the various transport modes should be changed and whether there should be radical changes in the whole transport system to the region. These are the questions that this report sets out to answer.

• Freight Transport to North West Australia, 1975–1990
  
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The difficulties associated with defining and funding an acceptable transport system to serve the needs of Australians living in the Centre and North of the continent have proved a continuing area of concern to successive Commonwealth and State Governments.

In this study an attempt has been made to define a broad network of supply links to the major population centres of the Northern Territory and identify priorities for investment which would provide a satisfactory level of service at minimum total cost. The basic criterion of acceptability was taken as the provision of all weather links between the Northern Territory centres and their major sources of supply.

• Darwin and Northern Territory Freight Transport Study
  
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In March 1982 the Northern Transport Study Committee presented a submission to the Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) on the inadequacies of the transport system serving the Gwydir and Macintyre River Valleys, commonly referred to as the north-west slopes and plains area of New South Wales. Subsequently, in response to a Ministerial reference the BTE undertook this study in which the economic and financial implications of a range of transport alternatives for this region are examined.

• Central North NSW Transport Alternatives
  
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This Paper presents a demand analysis of New South Wales regional and commuter intrastate air services. The main objective of this study was to provide forecasts of patronage to the year 2000 for New South Wales regional and commuter intrastate air services. The results may assist in understanding the demand for intrastate aviation services and help in the evaluation of policy options.

• Demand for NSW Intrastate Air Travel
  
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This Report describes a case study of capacity of regional transport infrastructure to meet current and future demands of industry.

• Transport and Regional Economic Development
  
  report_074.pdf
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Concerns have been expressed that the introduction of a national system of road user charging for heavy vehicles could adversely affect transport operators, consumers and producers in rural and remote areas of Australia.

• Road Transport Reforms–Implications for Rural and Remote Areas
  
  report_078.pdf
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BTCE selected the Berrima and Mittagong bypasses as the first in a series of case studies which are examining the regional development effects of infrastructure investment, and assessing whether significant economic growth benefits are omitted from conventional benefit-cost analysis.

• The Effects on Small Towns of Being Bypassed by a Highway: A Case Study of Berrima and Mittagong
  
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