APO Research

Urban passenger transport: how people move about in Australian cities
David Cosgrove, David Gargett Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics14 May, 2009 This information sheet analyses the trends in passenger transport in Australia's eight capital cities over the period 1977 to 2008. Although car travel continues to dominate travel in our cities, urban public transport has accounted for much of the growth in travel from 2004 to 2008.

From a theory to a consensus on emissions
John M. Broder The New York Times18 May, 2009 Cap and trade, hatched as an academic theory in obscure economic journals, has become the policy of choice in the debate over how to slow the heating of the planet.