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The production and export of wheat is important for Australia and its storage and transport represents a significant load on domestic resources.

The main issue relating to the section of the National Highway linking Hobart, Launceston and Burnie between Penguin and Burnie is whether to retain the coastal alignment for the National Highway or to adopt an alternative inland route.

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the first three months of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of July, August and September 1977.

Planners in all spheres of activity are demonstrating an increasing interest in the use of public participation as a planning tool. Despite this interest, there has been little documentation and research drawing on the participation experience in planning in Australia.

In this paper, the development of a geographic zoning system used in the sampling processes associated with the National Travel Survey (NTS) is described.

This Paper presents a summary of preliminary statistics obtained from the second quarter of the National Travel Survey (NTS). The results cover travel during the months of October, November and December 1977.

The NTS is a postal survey being conducted over a twelve-month period between July 1977 and June 1978. Its general aim is to determine domestic non-urban travel characteristics on a fully national basis.

When the Commonwealth Government introduced the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme TFES on 1 July 1976 it directed the Bureau of Transport Economics to recalculate the rates of assistance by December 1977.

For the purposes of this study the east-west rail link across Australia was considered in sections: Sydney to Broken Hill, Broken Hill to Port Pirie (including Adelaide to Peterborough and Adelaide to Port Pirie), The Port Pirie Bogie Exchange and Port Pirie to Kalgoorlie.

As part of the National Highway System the Bureau of Roads nominated the Hume Highway as the National Highway linking Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.