MCU14/0106 Appendix J - Retail Needs Assessment

TRAVEL, TIME AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
The value of the travel, time and environmental benefits that are forecast to eventuate as a result of the
Noosa Civic expansion were sourced from numerous publically available sources, as detailed below.

   Australian Bureau of Statistics (average hourly wage figures, fuel savings)

   Australian Institute of Petroleum (cost of unleaded petrol)

   Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (cost of road accidents)

   Office of Best Practice Regulation (discount rate guidelines)

   PricewaterhouseCoopers (health and environmental impacts of vehicle emissions)

   Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (accident frequencies for South East
    Queensland)

   RACQ (vehicle maintenance costs)

   Sinclair Knight Merz (environmental impacts of vehicle emissions)

   Thompson Reuters (carbon prices)

   US Department of Energy (petrol price forecasts)




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