Paper given to the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 October–3 October 2008, Gold Coast. Author: David Cosgrove.

This Report is one of two that have been prepared in the BTE to review the state of knowledge in the field of alternative road vehicle technologies and to indicate the magnitude of possible benefits (the other being a report on electric cars).

The BTE undertook a study of the possible introduction of electric cars in Australia. The results are presented in this Report.

This report contains a survey of recent Australian and overseas literature on the availability and use of energy for transport.

This report investigates the current level of energy consumption by various categories of Australian transport. It examines the present Australian transport task and the associated levels of energy consumption.

This report examines the factors which control the formation of photochemical smog in urban airsheds and reviews the present situation which exists in major Australian cities.

In the past, very little attention has been given to establishing the relationship between environmental factors and real estate values.

This report examines the market for battery powered electric passenger vehicles suitable for use in major urban areas in Australia. A typical specification for an electric passenger vehicle has been used as the basis of the analysis.

This report examines the hypothesis that there are no significant differences in the urban usage characteristics of various sized passenger vehicles, and discusses some implications of these results.

Urban air quality management is concerned with comparing two kinds of costs: those arising out of increased levels of air pollution and those involved in implementing an abatement program.