Between March 2004 and June 2007 The Rural and Remote Road Safety Study recorded 164 non-fatal motorcycle crashes in which a rider was seriously injured (hospitalised for 24 hours or more) on North Queensland public roads or lands. 88 of these riders consented to an interview with research staff during which a questionnaire was administered to gather information on crash experience, demographic...

Dr. Doug Abrahamson holds a Doctor of Public Policy degree from Charles Sturt UniversityAustralian Graduate School of Policing and Security (Manly, Australia) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Royal Roads University (Victoria, BC, Canada). His advanced education, training and experience in policing, business management and public policy allows him to critically reflect upon ...

Frontage roads are most frequently used in rural and urban environments along freeway and full-controlled principal arterial corridors. Their primary function is to distribute and collect traffic between local streets and interchanges. They have been the primary design solution for providing access along Texas rural freeways and full-controlled principal arterials. With the growing public deman...

The allocation of a government budget between a public good and transfers is modeled under different systems of government. The relatively even distribution of political power among groups in a democracy favors spending on nonexclusive public goods. The more concentrated pattern of political power in a dictatorship favors spending on transfers targeted to powerful groups. The hypothesis on publ...

This book is one of many recent works dealing with issues of transportation and the prospects for privatization. In particular, this volume emphasizes the losses and wastes generated by public intervention. Winston and Shirley give an overview of the present dismal situation (chap. 1). Public authorities manage most bus and railway companies, while those managed by private enterprise are hinder...