Resources

A technical overview of road pricing elasticities, exploring key estimates and their role in transport decisions.

An analysis of how different demographic groups contribute to private motor vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) in New Zealand.

Aotearoa New Zealand suffers from an infrastructure deficit. Without the key infrastructure needed now for our economy to thrive, we deprive future generations from significant economic prosperity. While transformational infrastructure projects necessitate time to be developed into sound technical solutions to our needs, many New Zealand projects are further delayed by policy decision and financing constraints. In this novel application of the infrastructure Wider Economic Benefits approach, we quantify the cost to society of these further delays for the first time, by using the example of the Waikato Expressway. We used our subregional CGE model to estimate the downstream benefits of the Expressway. At a high-level, results of our analysis quantify the annual benefits of having the Waikato Expressway in the economy. Without the expressway in function as early as possible, $334 million of economic benefits were forgone each year.

Potential policy instruments suitable for transport emissions reduction.

In this report we assess the extent to which the Resource Management Act (RMA) and other environmental regulations have contributed to house price inflation in Aotearoa. To do this, we review the factors of housing price growth (HPG) in New Zealand and provide a simple description of the available data and existing research on the topic.