The ACCC has released an issues paper to assist interested parties in making submissions to the ACCC’s new car retailing industry market study. The paper contains: the scope of the market study issues on which the ACCC is seeking information how to make submissions and key dates. A brief guide to assist interested consumers and...

The paper compares public transport performance in Melbourne and Sydney with that in four cities from German-speaking Europe. This is followed by a discussion of the political and institutional factors that have contributed to this variation. In the European examples, these factors range from broad scale issues like the re-structuring of large state monopolies such...

This paper investigates the spatial patterns of vehicle energy consumption on urban areas through an analysis of vehicle travel and efficiency of the vehicle fleet in Brisbane.

This discussion paper examines eight potential measures to encourage the uptake of more fuel efficient, low carbon emission vehicles. They are: • CO2 emission targets for new light vehicles (voluntary or mandatory) • Differential registration and stamp duty charges for new light vehicles based on CO2 emissions • Direct financial incentives for low emission vehicles...

A marginal saving in health costs in the four major Australian cities would arise from widespread use of E5 and E10 ethanol blends, according to this study. But this saving will be eroded over time as new vehicles, with improved emission control technology, enter the Australian fleet.