Estimating transport sector revenues and expenditures by mode and volume is essential for policy analysis by transport agencies as well as state and Commonwealth treasuries. This paper outlines the methodology used to compile a transport revenue and expenditure model (TREM) for Australia,...

We study different mixes of private and public supply of roads in a network with bottleneck congestion and heterogeneous users. There are two parallel links for one origin and destination pair and two groups of travellers, where the group with a higher value of time also has higher schedule...

Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple...

Can industrial policy be effective when dealing with a revolutionary new technology? Mark Casson's recent book, "The World's First Railway System," offers the intriguing claim that a slight dose of central planning by the British government in the 1840s would have produced a dramatically more...

For the last decade the Transport and Logistics Centre (TALC) has been facilitating, designing, developing and trialling various national, State and local programmes in the field of capability building in transport and logistics. From the experiences of TALC has emerged an innovative approach to...

The paper considers a public transport network without congestion where a fixed number of passengers want to go from A to B, from B to C and from A to C via B. We show under what conditions the addition of a new direct line AC, which avoids the use of the AB and BC links, would increase total...

The article analyzes the political barriers and success potentials of action plans and directives as common instruments of the European Commission to create the single market. Creating a single European market is regularly problematic for brand new emerging markets. Unknown emerging markets in...

A suspension of trucking between Russia and Poland and subsequent shutdown of road freight transportation between Russia and Ukraine have made Russian freight carriers switchover par ally their routes to those via the Baltic States. It is to be noted that Poland and Ukraine which initiated...

Korean Abstract: 민간투자 도로사업의 경우, 사업의 미래 수익성과 직접적으로 관련 있는 예측 교통량의 불확실성과 이에 따른 위험이 민간 운영자에게 이전된다. 따라서 교통량 예측위험이 민간투자도로사업의 추진에 어느...

While developed economies like the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany are often cited as classic examples of successful liberalised and private-sector led electricity markets, events such as: (i) the California electricity crisis of 2000-2001; (ii) the blackouts in parts of North America...