Links

We have collected an enormous array of useful transport-related links. To make it a bit easier to navigate, we've broken them up into categories. Choose from the listing below:

bicycle user groups

Bike Sydney
BikeSydney is affiliated with Bicycle NSW whose mission is to promote, advocate, and support cycling in all its forms as an environmentally sustainable and healthy form of transport, recreation and tourism through the engagement of government, industry and the community at all levels.

Bike East
BIKEast is the bicycle user group (BUG) representing cyclists in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, stretching from the South Head of Sydney Harbour to La Perouse at the mouth of Botany Bay and west to the fringes of Sydney's CBD. This area covers Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick & Botany Bay Councils (postcodes 2021-2036).

Leichardt Bicycle Users Group (LBUG)
LBUG is active as a Bicycling Advocacy group, attending community meetings, Leichhardt Council Traffic Committee meetings and Town Planning meetings, and talking with the RTA. We also run a regular rides program with the motto "see Sydney by Bike". The LBUG Vision for Leichhardt: A place where bicycles are welcomed and encouraged as a practical and beneficial form of everyday transport and recreation.

Ashfield Bicycle Users Group (AshBUG)
Ashfield Bicycle User Group is for people who want to see things get better for cyclists in the Ashfield area.

Bike South West
Bike South West (BSW) is an incorporated non-profit community-based bicycle user group (BUG) that has members mainly in the local government areas of Bankstown, Canterbury and Hurstville Council areas. We are ordinary people, at all levels of fitness, who ride a variety of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise and fun.

St. George Bicycle Users Group (St. George BUG)
The St. George BUG (Bicycle User Group) is a community group promoting cycling in the Hurstville, Kogarah and Rockdale Local Council Areas.

SharkBike
SharkBike was formed in 2002 by Sutherland Shire residents who, as regular cyclists, know the many benefits of this sustainable, healthy and neighbourhood-friendly transport mode. We established the group to promote cycling in Sutherland and to work with Council, RTA and others to bring about the necessary conditions for a greatly increased take-up of cycling across the Shire.

issues - air pollution

HEALTH EFFECTS OF PM, OZONE AND NITROGEN DIOXIDE
(word doc 36.5KB)
Extracted from HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION - RESULTS FROM THE WHO PROJECT “SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE” available at http://www.euro.who.int/document/E83080.pdf

Health Effects of Air Pollution
Mark Curran, July 2005(word doc 105KB)

Triggering Myocardial Infarction - New England Journal of Medicine
Peter H. Stone MD, October 2004(word doc 134KB)

Literature Review - impact of particulate matter in children and healthy adults
(word doc 27KB)

Particulate Matter: Why does it matter? (word doc 35.5KB)

Particles - Terms and Definitions (word doc 47.5KB)

Pollution Linked to Cancer
By Eric Pianin, Washington Post, Tuesday, March 5, 2002 (word doc 36.5KB)

issues - congestion and productivity

Most people think of congestion as something that affects them personally, but as these documents show, congestion hurts everyone through the way that it holds up the flow of people and goods.

Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing
Productivity Commission Inquiry Report
No. 41, 22 December 2006

Review of Urban Congestion Trends, Impacts and Solutions
Report prepared for the Council of Australian Governments by the Competition and Regulation Working Group
December 2006

Study of Successful Congestion Management Approaches and the Role of Charging, Taxes, Levies and Infrastructure and Service Pricing in Travel Demand Management
Consultancy Report Prepared for COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS REVIEW OF URBAN CONGESTION TRENDS, IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS by Booz Allen Hamilton
November 2006

FreightSmart
Consultancy Report Prepared for COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS REVIEW OF URBAN CONGESTION TRENDS, IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS by IMIS, John G Edhouse & Associates, Paul Garth and Masson Wilson Twiney
October 2006

AusLink Urban Arterial Road Network Congestion Review: Traffic Management Systems (Non-Freeways)
Consultancy Report Prepared for COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS REVIEW OF URBAN CONGESTION TRENDS, IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS by Maunsell Australia

Traffic Management Systems for Australian Urban Freeways
Consultancy Report Prepared for COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS REVIEW OF URBAN CONGESTION TRENDS, IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS by ARRB Consulting and SJ Wright & Associates
August 2006

Estimating urban traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian cities
Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE)
Working Paper No 71

Energy Efficiency, Congestion and Productivity

See some useful figures for transport related energy efficiency.
http://strickland.ca/efficiency.html

issues - greenhouse reduction

The Australian Greenhouse Office
This site presents background information and a range of ideas for action by local councils to promote the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector.

www.greenhouse.vic.gov.au/transport.htm
The transport sector is responsible for 16% of Victoria's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse

See some useful figures for transport related energy efficiency.
http://strickland.ca/efficiency.html

issues - peak oil

Inquiry into Australia's future oil supply and alternative transport fuels
See the final report and read the submissions made to the inquiry.

http://www.aspo-australia.org.au/
Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas

www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/energy
Productivity Commision Inquiry into energy efficiency

www.energybulletin.net
EnergyBulletin.net is designed to be a clearinghouse for current information regarding the peak in global energy supply.

www.theoildrum.com
"...we are here to raise awareness of the reality of the current problem and to attempt to address the real issues that are often hidden by political pandering."

www.peakoil.net
The international web-portal for the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas

www.peakoil.ie
Dr Colin Campbell, the founder of ASPO, formed ASPO Ireland and produces a monthly newsletter through this website and disseminates information about peak oil and gas.

Energy Efficiency and Peak Oil

See some useful figures for transport related energy efficiency.
http://strickland.ca/efficiency.html

state transport departments

Queensland Department of Transport
Queensland's Transport Department is quite proactive in terms of ecologically sustainable transport - see the relevant section of their website by clicking on the link.

NSW Department of Transport
The annual report of the NSW Ministry of Transport describes the Ministry of Transport as "...the lead agency of the transport portfolio, providing a strategic focal point for integrated transport planning and service delivery". Not while the RTA has independent planning and approval powers...keep this in mind.

RTA
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) was established on 16 January 1989, under the Transport Administration Act 1988 through an amalgamation of the former Department of Main Roads, Department of Motor Transport and the Traffic Authority.

Transport WA
Crikey! Couldn't find a reference to a WA department of transport because they don't have one. They have something better - a department of planning and infrastructure that takes transport under its wing! Go and marvel at the great attitude of someone else's Labor Government...Like Queensland, WA has some idea about ecologically sustainable transport.

transport advocacy

Action For Public Transport NSW
Transport consumer group offering public transport news and commentary not found in the general media.

Bicycle NSW
Bicycle NSW is a non-profit, member supported community group, which aims to promote, support and advocate for cycle use.

Public Transport Users Association Victoria
Represents public tranport passengers and promotes sustainable transport policy, lobbying goverments and transport authorities.

David Engwicht
David Engwicht is a pioneer in traffic calming and community building. Very inspiring stuff.

Pedestrian Council
The PCA's role is essentially one of education, advocacy and the promotion of a culture of concern and care within the whole community for the rights and responsibilities of pedestrians. Provision and infrastructure to meet the expectations of such a concerned community is properly the responsibility of the land use, transport and road authorities.