Transport

Road transport studies: project evaluation, regulation and fuel

ACIL Tasman has extensive experience examining the road transport sector for a range of public and private sector organisations, developers and the World Bank.

Our road development and road transport work has covered areas of:

governance and commercial arrangements for toll roads
project evaluation, cost benefit and financial return assessments on road investment
laws and regulations: uniform road transport laws, regulatory and compliance systems for heavy vehicles
externalities: external costs of different transport modes, the economic costs and safety externalities of road crashes, market distortions and the regulation of motor vehicle emissions
road pricing: road user charges and taxation options
fuel studies, vehicle emissions and fuel specifications
commercial advice on sustainable freight rates the finances of the trucking industry.

A specific selection of our road-related projects include some undertaken in relation to:

toll roads
freight rates and the safety performance of road transport operators
road and rail infrastructure pricing
heavy vehicle standards
road freight forecasts
fuel taxation and the costs of road transport
truck freight rates and owner-driver ROI
options for regulation of the road freight industry regulation
competitive neutrality and freight rates for road and rail
strategic transport needs assessment
road user charges for the NZ Government.

See our road transport case studies.