ABSTRACT Transport academics and activists alike frequently build up the “road lobby” to be a menacing force, secretly controlling transport policy across Australia. Just who makes up that lobby and how it affects policy is rarely explained with rigour. This article seeks to start the process of demystifying the road lobby. It identifies two approaches to defining it and, using various documentary sources, charts its channels of influence, as well as some limits to its power. It ends by setting down a challenge: for our discipline to ascribe such influence to the road lobby, we must seek stronger, more compelling evidence.

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澳大利亚公路游说：沥青黑手党还是柏忌？

摘要交通学者和活动家都经常建立起“道路大厅”以示威胁，秘密控制着整个澳大利亚的交通政策。很少严格地解释谁构成了这个游说者以及它如何影响政策。本文旨在开始揭开道路游说团神秘面纱的过程。它确定了两种定义它的方法，并使用各种文献资料来绘制其影响渠道以及其功能的某些限制。最后，提出了一个挑战：为了使我们的学科将这种影响归因于道路游说者，我们必须寻求更有力，更有说服力的证据。