Infrastructure Priority List

Infrastructure Priority List
Author: Infrastructure Australia
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781925352276

The Infrastructure Priority List is the authoritative list of nationally significant infrastructure investments Australia needs over the next15 years. The Priority List provides independent, evidence-based advice to governments and industry on the projects that will most benefit our growing communities.

Infrastructure Priority List

Infrastructure Priority List
Author: Infrastructure Australia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2017
Genre: Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN: 9781925352139

"The Infrastructure Priority List identifies 100 major infrastructure proposals...that will improve connectivity and deliver better infrastructure services...This includes transformational projects such as Melbourne Metro (Victoria), Western Sydney Airport (NSW), WestConnex (NSW), Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (NSW), North-South Corridor Darlington Project (SA), Perth Forrestfield Airport Link (WA) and Inland Rail (National)" -- page 2.

Road Pricing and Provision

Road Pricing and Provision
Author: Michael de Percy
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1760462314

Road pricing is not a new concept—toll roads have existed in Australia since Governor Macquarie established one from Sydney to Parramatta in 1811—and distance-based charging schemes have been trialled and implemented with varying success overseas. But how would full market reform of roads look in a federation like Australia? In its responses to the 2016 Australian Infrastructure Plan and the 2015 Competition Policy Review, the Australian Government explicitly supported investigating cost-reflective road pricing as a long-term reform option, and has committed to establishing a study chaired by an eminent Australian to look into the potential impacts of road pricing reform on road users. The challenges we face in this space are manifold and complex, and we still have a long road ahead of us. However, with advocacy for reform coming from interest groups as diverse as governments, private transport companies, peak industry bodies, policy think tanks and state motoring clubs, there is now more support than ever before for changing the way we provide for and fund our roads. This book seeks to advance the road reform agenda by presenting some of the latest thinking on road pricing and provision from a variety of disciplinary approaches—researchers, economists and public sector leaders. It stresses the need for reform to ensure Australians can enjoy the benefits of efficient and sustainable transport infrastructure as our population and major metropolitan cities continue to grow. Traffic congestion is avoidable, but we must act soon. The works presented here all point to the need for change—the expertise and the technology are available, and the various reform options have been mapped out in some detail. It is time for the policy debate to shift to how, rather than if, road reform should progress.