Long-term trends in modal share for urban passenger travel

The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) has recently conducted a study of the avoidable social costs of congestion in Australia. Congestion imposes significant costs on society with interruptions to urban traffic flow lengthening average journey times, making trip travel times more variable, and making vehicle engine operation less efficient. The latter leads not only to higher rates of fuel consumption, than would otherwise have occurred, but also to poorer urban air quality (with vehicles under congested conditions typically emitting far higher rates of noxious pollutants than under more freely flowing conditions, resulting in even higher health costs to the community). As part of the investigation of congestion occurrence, long-term trends in traffic within the Australian capital cities were analysed. These trend analyses form the basis of the findings discussed in this paper. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E215911.

• Authors:
  • COSGROVE, D
  • GARGETT, D
• Publication Date: 2007-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 67-94 [WORKSHOP 1A]
• Serial:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION AND OWNERSHIP IN LAND PASSENGER TRANSPORT, 10TH, 2007, HAMILTON ISLAND, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher: University of Sydney

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Demand; Forecasting; Modal split; Private transportation; Public transit; Statistics; Transportation; Travel; Urban areas
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 285: Demand (econ); 132: Forecast; 698: Journey; 675: Modal split; 746: Private transport; 744: Public transport; 6555: Statistics; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01094845
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 25 2008 8:03AM