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Examining The Effects Of Transport Policy On Modal Shift From Private Car To Public Bus, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Jie Yang
Examining The Effects Of Transport Policy On Modal Shift From Private Car To Public Bus, Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Jie Yang
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Private vehicles have become the most common mode of daily travel. This is one effect of the poor accessibility of public transportation. This paper attempts to use a study based on a survey of commuters in order to devise ways of encouraging the use of public transportation. Two different public transport policies were examined: (i) once-an-hour direct bus service from home to university (policy 1), and (ii) park-and-ride facilities (policy 2). Binary logistics models are proposed with the intention of comparing the utility of travel modes between private cars and public buses. These models are also used to identify the …
Regional Planning And Policy Analysis In Australia Through Integrated Economic Modelling, Ashkan Masouman, Charles Harvie, Pascal Perez
Regional Planning And Policy Analysis In Australia Through Integrated Economic Modelling, Ashkan Masouman, Charles Harvie, Pascal Perez
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Several attempts have been proposed in the literature to relax the restrictive assumptions of a standalone input-output model. Particularly, endogenisation of the household sector, which exhibits the highest constant returns to scale, has been continuously recognised as a key objective of such attempts. This objective increases in importance as we move from national to regional economies. Most of the studies in the literature collapse the intermediate demand information into a solo composite variable. The intermediate demand information serves as a priori data, which represents the inter-sectoral1 relationships within a regional economy. In this paper, estimation of sectoral employment by embedding …
Conclusion: Tackling The 'Missing Scale' In Environmental Policy, Ruth Lane, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Conclusion: Tackling The 'Missing Scale' In Environmental Policy, Ruth Lane, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The foregoing chapters have demonstrated that household sustainability is a complex issue that requires thoughtful discussion from multiple perspectives. Indeed throughout this collection we have encouraged a dialogical approach. On the one hand our aim has been to bring researchers from human geography and cultural studies into a productive dialogue around the material geographies of household sustainability. There has been enthusiastic cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches shown through the chapters, which critically develop the interconnections between the material, socia-technical, culturaJ, embodied and political dimensions which make households function, with particular attention to how they (might) function in environmentally sustainable ways. …
New Policies Create A New Politics: Issues Of Institutional Design In Climate Change Policy, Henry Ergas
New Policies Create A New Politics: Issues Of Institutional Design In Climate Change Policy, Henry Ergas
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Institutional design focuses on the task of providing accountability and effective monitoring of decision-making by bodies vested with the coercive powers of the state in a context where information is inherently limited, costly to acquire and asymmetrically distributed. This paper focuses on issues of institutional design in the context of climate change policy. It examines proposals advanced in the June 2008 Draft and Final Reports of the Garnaut Climate Change Review (‘Garnaut Reports’), and in the Government’s July 2008 Green Paper and December 2008 White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (‘Green and White Papers’) with respect to how …
A Communications Policy Perspective On Ctc Sustainability In Regional Australia: Normative Assumptions, Commercial Viability And Social Good, William Tibben
A Communications Policy Perspective On Ctc Sustainability In Regional Australia: Normative Assumptions, Commercial Viability And Social Good, William Tibben
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
This paper investigates the influence of the normative assumptions that can be associated with the Community Technology Centers (CTCs) scheme in New South Wales, Australia during the period 2000-2005 (CTC@NSW). It does this by developing an analytical framework based on Australian communications policy to assess case study accounts of selected CTCs. In drawing conclusions about the normative assumptions that guided the implementation of the CTC@NSW scheme, the sufficiency of market based development strategies are questioned when challenging economic circumstances suggest the need for ongoing strategic assistance from government.
Paradox Between Public Transport And Private Car As A Modal Choice In Policy Formulation, Ahm Mehbub Anwar
Paradox Between Public Transport And Private Car As A Modal Choice In Policy Formulation, Ahm Mehbub Anwar
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
This paper presents the stance towards modal choice behavior between public transport and private car. To find out the probable solutions, this paper investigated the latent attitudes of the trip makers concerning modal choice between private car and public transport and the advantages and disadvantages of these two modes as a choice. It was also discussed in this paper that the public transport usage can be increased if the service of public transport is designed in a way that accommodates the level of services required by the customers. Even though, several factors, such as individual characteristics and lifestyle, the type …
Resource Price Turbulence And Macroeconomic Adjustment For A Resource Exporter: A Conceptual Framework For Policy Analysis, Grant M. Cox, Charles Harvie
Resource Price Turbulence And Macroeconomic Adjustment For A Resource Exporter: A Conceptual Framework For Policy Analysis, Grant M. Cox, Charles Harvie
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The increased demand for energy and other resources in global markets, particularly arising from therapidly developing economies of China and India, has resulted in considerable turbulence in resourceprices, and most obviously that of oil. The recent magnitude of change, both positive and negative, inresource prices and their macroeconomic implications is of considerable contemporary importance forboth resource importing and exporting economies. For a resource exporting economy, such as that ofAustralia, the resource price boom had a number of beneficial effects: increased government taxationrevenues, increased employment and higher wages in the resource and resource related sectors,increased spending in the domestic economy and …
The Importance Of Community Engagement In Policy Development: An Australian Case Study, Alison Norris, Mark Freeman
The Importance Of Community Engagement In Policy Development: An Australian Case Study, Alison Norris, Mark Freeman
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The Australian Domain Name Administrators have launched a new domain name space designed specifically for community groups to develop community Websites for the benefit of the local community. The purpose of the scheme under which these domains are issued is to link community members through community-managed Websites, and to encourage broad community participation and engagement. Despite broad community engagement during initial development, many changes have since been made to the policy governing these new domain names. This paper presents an overview of the scheme under which these community domains can be used, and identifies the changes made to the policy …
Living In A Land Of Fire, R. J. Whelan, P. Kanowski, M. Gill, A. Andersen
Living In A Land Of Fire, R. J. Whelan, P. Kanowski, M. Gill, A. Andersen
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Fires are an inherent part of the Australian environment. They cannot be prevented, but the risks they pose — to life, health, property and infrastructure, production systems, and to environment values — can be minimised through systematic evaluation and strategic planning and management. Fires have a fundamental and irreplaceable role in sustaining many of Australia’s natural ecosystems and ecological processes, and they are a valuable tool for achieving many land management objectives. However, if they are too frequent or too infrequent, too severe or too mild, or mistimed, they can erode ecosystem ‘health’ and biodiversity and compromise other land management …
Communications Breakdown: Revisiting The Question Of Information And Its Significance For Community Informatics Projects, William Tibben
Communications Breakdown: Revisiting The Question Of Information And Its Significance For Community Informatics Projects, William Tibben
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The gap between those who understand the complexities of community requirements and the information technologists who can build the technologies represents a central focus of concern with Community Informatics (CI) research. This paper explores how different assumptions about the utility of information leads to poor communication between researchers and practitioners. Braman’s four-part hierarchy is a useful vehicle to investigate this as she seeks to include a range of actors such as policy makers, technologists and community members. A number of case study examples are explored to illustrate the value of Braman’s work for CI.