Summit and Events
Major Transport Infrastructure Projects and Regional Eonomic Developments - Assessment and Implementation
Presentation, slides, speech,
1 December 2011
Insurance Market Incentives and Constraints and Complementary Public Policies
Presentation, slides, speech,
31 August 2011
Moving Freight with Better Trucks
Research Report, Policy Insights,
18 April 2011
- The freight transport task is growing rapidly in most regions and requires effective utilisation of all modes of transport.
- The safety and environmental impacts of road haulage require regulatory intervention for optimal outcomes.
- Compliance can be improved greatly through legislation that assigns responsibility.
- Compliance regimes can be enhanced by exploiting technological innovations.
- A performance based approach to regulation offers the potential to meet community objectives for road freight transport more fully.
- Many higher capacity vehicles have equivalent or even better intrinsic safety characteristics in some respects than most common workhorse trucks.
- Truck crash energies mean safety regulation must pay particular attention to managing truck speeds and driver alertness and impairment.
- Higher capacity vehicles have potential to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.
- Higher capacity vehicles can result in fewer vehicle-kilometres travelled.
- The lower unit costs offered by higher productivity trucks could result in increased overall demand for road freight transport and a transfer of freight from other modes.
- Road pricing systems can be developed to manage use of the transport network more efficiently.
- Road infrastructure and trucks need to be developed in concert.
- Significant opportunities for improvement of the regulation of heavy trucks have been identified.
Ten Stylised Facts About Household Spending on Transport
Statistics Brief, Policy Insights,
1 January 2011
- Housing, transport and food are the main household budgetary drivers.
- Share of transport on total household spending has remained relatively constant over time.
- The share of transport in household expenditure increases with welfare.
- The main driver of household spending is the ownership (and use) of cars.
- Increased spending on transport by richer households is mainly directed to cars.
- Transport spending structure and level changes dramatically only for households with the oldest consumers.
- Unemployed and retired spend least on transport – but still rely on cars.
- Bigger families spend more on transport (and use of car).
- Degree of urbanisation has only a small impact on transport spending shares in rich countries.
- Transport spending is rapidly increasing in China.
Medium-Term Oil Market Report: Prices and Uncertainties
Presentation, slides, speech,
15 November 2007
Peak Oil and the Evolving Strategies Of Oil Importing and Oil Exporting Countries
Presentation, slides, speech,
15 November 2007
Application Of Economic Analysis for Transport Decision Making: Progress & Challenges
Presentation, slides, speech,
1 November 2007
Recent Evolution of Research into the Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Infrastructure Investments
Presentation, slides, speech,
24 October 2007
Transport Infrastructure Inside and Across Urban Regions: Models and Assessment Methods
Presentation, slides, speech,
30 September 2007
Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
Presentation, slides, speech,
30 September 2007
The Performance of Brazilian Biofuels: An Economic, Environmental and Social Analysis
Presentation, slides, speech,
31 May 2007