Publications by year: 2019

Research Report
August 2019

This report describes an approach to estimating likely electric vehicle uptake for each of 22 countries around the world.

Information Sheet
July 2019

This Information Sheet explores the relationship between income and transport use in Australia by identifying the nature of the relationship between income and different types of transport use, and how public transport use (especially rail) varies with income in different locations.

Statistics
March 2019

Experimental estimates of the economic contribution of all transport activity to the Australian economy.

Information Sheet
March 2019

Economies of scale are a common feature of the cost structure of service providers. This paper discussed how economies of scale incentivise the geographic centralisation of services because they make it cheaper to supply services from fewer centralised locations.

Research Report
March 2019

The report models petrol prices in 24 countries around the world - the world oil price determines the energy content of the petrol price, and then adding in taxes produces a prediction of the country's petrol price.

Information Sheet
March 2019

This information sheet provides an introduction to measuring the total value of goods and services produced in a region, known as Gross Regional Product (GRP), as well as conceptual and practical limitations of this measure.

Information Sheet
March 2019

This paper explores how producing different services together, or the scope of production, affects the spatial distribution of services in Australia's regions.

Staff Papers
February 2019

In this paper we define services and provide an overview of who produces them and why. The first section defines a service as a type of product that can only be consumed while production is taking place.

Information Sheet
February 2019

This paper provides an introduction to how people are distributed spatially across Australia. The discussion is broken into two sections.

Staff Papers
February 2019

This paper sets out a framework of access, with a particular focus on access to services. Previous research has examined dimensions of access, often in terms of a particular field and with an emphasis on the consumer.