Transport mobility is important in defining the population’s accessibility to services and facilities. Few studies have investigated the relationship between geographical accessibility of urban services for the population living in residential areas and socio-economic parameters. In this paper, the distribution of residential parcels is analysed from a rarely explored angle—that is, its location in relation...

Summary This report presents estimates of trends in the number and rate of persons seriously injured in Australia due to road vehicle traffic crashes. Serious injury is defined as cases where a person was admitted to hospital for an injury and was discharged alive. Cases involving types of injury that are life-threatening are the main...

This report looks at the economic effects in Australia of Uber and its uberX ridesharing platform. The impact of the launch, and subsequent growth of Uber, and particularly its UberX platform is playing out as one of Australia’s most compelling sharing economy and digital disruption stories. This report, commissioned by Uber, looks at the impacts...

The Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 (RSR Act) required a review of its operation be conducted in the second half of 2015. The review was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and completed in January 2016 to account for the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal’s most recent order issued on 18 December 2015.

Summary From an economic perspective, traffic fines serve to provide an incentive to drivers to obey road rules. But the incentives provided are different for different people. For a driver earning a million dollars per year a $150 traffic fine is of little consequence. For a low income earner it can be a serious setback...