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Trainline statistical reports
Trainline is a compendium of Australia's railways providing insights, analysis, and an understanding of the railway industry. -
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Road Freight Estimates by State/Territory
Paper given to the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 October–3 October 2008, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain -
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Interstate Freight on States Roads
Paper given to the 29th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 27–29 September 2006, Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain and David Cosgrove. -
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National road network intercity traffic projections to 2030
This report provides long-term passenger and freight vehicle traffic projections for intercity corridors of the National Land Transport Network (NLTN) between 2005 and 2030. -
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Rail Infrastructure Pricing: Principles and Practice
Our analysis involves consideration of the benefits and costs of mandatory access; the principles of efficient access charges; Australia's systems of access and pricing; international pricing and access systems and the lessons from the experiences with them. While principles of access charges... -
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Land Transport Infrastructure Pricing: An Introduction
The BTRE projects that the total freight task will continue to grow strongly. Such growth will increase the infrastructure maintenance needs and possibly hasten the need for capacity expansion. Setting prices for infrastructure use that reflect costs provides important signals as to the... -
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Australian maritime activity to 2029–30
This report presents forecasts of maritime activity in Australian ports to 2029–30. This includes imports and exports of containerised and non-containerised freight, coastal freight movements, temporary arrivals and departures of passengers by sea, and vessel activity. -
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Adequacy of transport Infrastructure: Rail
This Working Paper is the second in a series of Working Papers which disseminates the results of a large research project into the adequacy of Australia's transport infrastructure over the next 20 years. The assessment covers all four modes of transport–road, rail, air and sea–with the primary... -
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Survey of Trucking Operations 1982–83: Methodology and Results
Early in 1984 the Bureau of Transport Economics carried out a survey of trucking operations, primarily to assist the National Road Freight Industry Inquiry in its data collection activity. This Paper describes the survey and sets out its major findings. Both road transport (for hire and reward)... -
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Freight Between Australian Cities
This information sheet provides estimates of non-bulk freight flows over seven intercity corridors for the 25 years from 1970 to 1995. -
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Road vehicle-kilometres travelled: estimation from state and territory fuel sale...
This report develops a methodology for estimating traffic levels for each of the eight States and Territories in Australia from March 1965 to June 2010 -
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Trends in Trucks and Traffic
Increasingly in Australia, trucking is an essential feature of economic activity, with road being the only mode possible for much freight traffic (eg in cities), and with rail tending to be less competitive than road on many intercity links. -
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Filling a gap in rail data: an investigation of the Gheringhap Loop train sighti...
This paper analyses train sightings data collected at Gheringhap, Victoria, located on the Melbourne to Adelaide main line. These sightings provide an independent source of information on train movements, train lengths, and reliability, and, given knowledge of freight volumes, can be used to... -
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Modelling Responses of Urban Freight Patterns to Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scenar...
This paper presents the results of applying a policy model to simulate the effects on greenhouse gas emissions from trucking in Sydney of various abatement scenarios. These include vehicle efficiency scenarios, traffic efficiency scenarios and alternative infrastructure and land use scenarios.... -
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The Road Freight Transport Industry
Data and information on the road freight transport industry is in limited supply. In order to reduce this problem, the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics undertook this overview of the road freight transport industry. The industry is shown to be carrying an increasing proportion of... -
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Transport Elasticities Database
This resource contains a set of tables measuring demand, time, price, and service elasticities for all modes of passenger and freight transport