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More than thirty gigantic infrastructure projects threaten Africa’s environment without offering economic benefits.
Allowing infrastructure to take over the job of keeping our vehicles running sends us further down a troublesome road.
Our roads, bridges and schools are in dire need of aid, and the economic benefits of investment far outweigh the financial costs.
A research focus on transport can help improve existing infrastructure and guide future developments, and tailor them to Australia’s unique needs.
The longer Australia waits for reform to road use pricing, the more commuters will ultimately end up paying.
Once a new road opens, people switch back to cars and congestion increases back to a steady-state point of gridlock. For lasting effectiveness, policy needs to include congestion charges and better rail services.
The planning for any new road should include plenty of mathematical modelling. But getting the right numbers can be a challenge and there’s the odd paradox to deal with as well.
Amid talk of paths to surplus and investing in infrastructure, both sides of politics seem to have forgotten Australia’s longstanding responsibility to govern sustainably, and not just for the economy.
Across the western world, the distance people travel is starting to fall. That’s a good thing, for us and the environment.
A new road may provide motorists with some level of respite from congestion in the short term. But almost all of the benefit from the road will be lost in the longer term.
The G20 has pledged to spend more than US$60 trillion on new infrastructure in the next 15 years, much of which will affect pristine areas. Without a solid plan, the environmental toll could be huge.
Labor’s state election victory in Victoria has fatally undermined Melbourne’s most controversial tunnel, the now-doomed East-West Link, with new Premier Daniel Andrews pledging to rip up the contracts…
Infrastructure projects are ripe for political point scoring. None more so than Private Public Partnerships (PPPs), which allow private companies to profit from key infrastructure. Yet political debate…
Road safety is a seriously important public policy issue. Around 1.3 million people die in road crashes around the world each year. Among teenagers and young adults, road crashes are the number-one cause…
“The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads.” These might sound like the words of an eco-terrorist, but it’s actually a direct quote from Professor Eneas Salati, a forest climatologist…
Australia has scored poorly in the energy efficiency of its land transport, and is well behind other major economies, a recent international scorecard has revealed. That means Australians are using more…
The Abbott government has committed an additional A$11.6 billion for an “infrastructure growth package” that is heavy on roads, but aimed at fast-tracking what it considers critical infrastructure. The…
Motorcyclists are about to get a green light to “filter” through traffic on New South Wales roads. But what does that mean, for them and others sharing the road? And what are the rules for motorcycles…
This week, Australian motoring groups decided to back road user charges, arguing that it would be a fairer system. At the same time, the groups said the change to user charges would secure sufficient funding…
Top contributors
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in Infrastructure Management, University of Sydney
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Researcher in Road Ecology, Nottingham Trent University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Professor in Transport and Logistics Network Modelling, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Transport Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
