Roads
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Road design
Highways
Report
Commonwealth road funding since 1990
Richard Webb reviews developments in Commonwealth road funding in the 1990s and examines associated majorissues. The paper also contains the most recent data.
Conference paper
Before and after Sydney’s M4 Motorway: did it make the city more sustainable?
Induced traffic growth has significant implications for the sustainability of urban systems. These are discussed in tandem with a brief review of the debate that has taken place around induced traffic growth.
Working paper
Before and after opening of the M4 Motorway from Mays Hill to Prospect: Sydney case studies in induced traffic growth
This paper examines before and after conditions surrounding the opening of the Mays Hill to Prospect section of the M4 Motorway in Sydney's west. The aim of the examination has been to identify any possible traces of induced traffic growth, or increases in travel generated as a direct response to the increase in road capacity...
Website
Issues: traffic congestion
This website provided links to short briefings on traffic congestion.
Working paper
The road to nowhere: urban freeway planning Sydney to 1977 and in the present day
This work explores the rise and fall of proposals, which were current between 1945 and 1977, for an inner suburban radial freeway network in Sydney.