During 1976 and 1977 the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation and the Geelong Regional Planning Authority undertook a major study of recreational activity in the Geelong area. As part of that study, John Paterson Urban Systems was commissioned to undertake an extensive household survey and to develop a set of recreation site usage models for locations in the Geelong region. These data, together with information on environmental usage limits for each site in the region were used in the development of recreational area management programmes.

• Recreation Demand Modelling
  
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This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the fourth quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of April, May and June 1978. 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. The results from a supplementary household interview survey conducted in parallel with the NTS will be used to adjust the postal survey results. This adjustment will take place at the conclusion of the twelve-month NTS survey period.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78: Preliminary Statistical Summary June Quarter
  
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This Paper presents a description of the data base compiled from the information obtained from the National Travel Survey (NTS). The general aim of the NTS was to determine domestic non-urban travel characteristics on a fully national basis. All modes of travel were encompassed, and the seasonal nature of this travel was also monitored. As well as various travel parameters, some personal and household characteristics were obtained, to allow the influence of personal and household characteristics on long-distance travel behaviour to be assessed.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78, Description of the NTS Data Base
  
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This Report was prepared in response to a Ministerial reference relating to the feasibility of the introduction of duty free shopping for inward-bound passengers at Australian international air passenger terminals.

Some of the major conclusions of this report are based on a simple conceptual model of duty-free shops which is described in detail in Appendix 2 of the Report.

• Inwards Duty Free Shopping at Australian International Air Terminals: An Economic Evaluation
  
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From July 1977 to June 1978, the Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) conducted the National Travel Survey (NTS). This was a major survey of nonurban travel in Australia. This Paper discusses the sources of bias and errors in the NTS data and presents a method of adjusting the statistical results for non-response bias. The general design of the NTS is evaluated in the light of the practical experience gained from its operation. Finally, the Paper presents a range of tabulations summarising some of the more important and interesting results derived from the NTS data. These results have been adjusted for statistical non-response bias and have been calculated to apply to the population.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78: Statistical Adjustments and Final Results
  
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The aim of this Report is to provide a general overview of all aspects of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The topics covered include the survey design and operation, public response to the survey, and corrections applied to the survey results.

The NTS is compared to other surveys and some lessons learnt from the NTS about survey design and operations are outlined. Finally a number of aspects of non-urban travel in Australia are discussed, with particular reference to tourist travel.

• National Travel Survey 1977–78: General Overview and Assessment
  
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This Paper describes broad elements of the TRIS data base and of processing performed on it by the BTE. Sufficient detail is presented to permit users of the data base to make convenient and effective use of it for information retrieval purposes.

• Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS): Description of Outputs from BTE Processing
  
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This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the fourth quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of April, May and June 1978. 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. The results from a supplementary household interview survey conducted in parallel with the NTS will be used to adjust the postal survey results. This adjustment will take place at the conclusion of the twelve-month NTS survey period.

• Guidelines for the Conduct of Urban Transport Corridor Studies
  
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The Report is the result of a study of the sources, levels and methods of funding transport research and development (R&D) in Australia, and an investigation of matters pertaining to the effectiveness and efficiency of the transport R&D carried out.

• Funding Characteristics of Transport Research in Australia
  
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This Paper has been prepared in response to a general concern that value of time in transport analysis, while acknowledged to be important, was not being accorded that importance in practice. At the outset it was hoped that a literature and practice review would enable some useful guidance to be given to practitioners on appropriate values for use in various circumstances. This has not been the case. What has emerged is that there is a wide range of considerations properly governing the valuation of time, and time values will vary widely with context. Existing work allows little confidence to be attached to currently available values or to generalising from prior, case-specific, estimates of values of time. What is now required is a series of rigorous estimates of time values with a view also to determining procedures for generalising and updating as required.

• The Value of Travel Time Savings in Public Sector Evaluation
  
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