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Update of RUC Unit of Values to June 2005
This document contains estimates of road user unit costs for use in Australia, calculated as at 30 June 2005. The unit costs are presented in a format suitable for use with most road project evaluation models, techniques, and software used by…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment Proposals: Overtaking Lanes - An International Review
This report describes the results of a review of international literature undertaken in 2002 on the evaluation and application of intermittent overtaking lanes on two-way roads in rural traffic environments. This report also contains a comprehensive…
Economic Evaluation of Road Proposals: Harmonisation of Non-Urban Road User Cost Models
The purpose of this document is to maintain and improve the validity and harmonisation of estimates of non-urban road user costs (RUCs) in Australia. Australian road agencies use a range of models to estimate RUC’s for use in investment evaluation,…
Salinity and Rising Water Tables: Risks for Road Assets
This report documents work undertaken in relation to the Austroads Business Systems Project BS.A.N.523 Salinity and Rising Water-Tables - Risks for Network Asset management. The purpose of the project was to identify the potential impact of dryland…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment: Estimating Urban Inter-Modal Benefits: A Literature Review
This document is a report on a review of Australasian and international literature in 2002 exploring the availability of data, analysis and findings that could assist in estimating inter-modal benefits related to urban transport project evaluations.…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment Proposals: Unit Values for Road User Costs at June 2002
This document contains estimates of road user unit costs in Australia at 30 June 2002. The purpose of the estimates in this document is to provide input values for economic evaluation models used by Australian road agencies for transport projects.…
A Review of Current Practice for Industry Contributions to Local Road Costs
Whilst there are many different sources of funding for road construction, maintenance and rehabilitation, a limited number of these are available for application to local roads. Changes in the volume and type of freight being carried on local roads…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment Proposals: Improved Methods for Estimating Australian Unit Crash Costs
This report demonstrates the usage of a methodology for estimating average crash costs for use in the economic evaluation of road projects by applying it to data for the State of Victoria to derive average costs for a range of casualty crash…
Valuing Environmental and Other Externalities
Transport benefits society, but also imposes costs, notably through environmental damage and crashes. In addition to the effects on the environment and human health, current scientific attention is directed to the social impacts of transportation in…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment Proposals: Improved Estimation of Hourly Traffic Volume Distributions
In Australia, default hourly traffic flow histograms are used in models for estimating savings to road users from road improvement proposals. This report describes the development and updating of hourly traffic volume frequency distributions for use…