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| Information Sheet 33: Urban public transport: recent bus transport statistics | December 2009 |
| This information sheet compiles data on urban public bus services by government and outsourced private sector providers in Australia's capital cities. Statistics examined include: total passenger boardings; passenger kilometres; in-service bus kilometres; boardings per service kilometre; bus services by capital city; and an overview of Australia's current bus systems. |
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| Information Sheet 37 - Public road-related expenditure and revenue in Australia 2009 | November 2009 |
This information sheet covers road-related expenditure for the years 2000-01 to
2007-08 by level of government, as well as total expenditure by state and territory.
It also provides an estimate of private sector transfers of road assets to state and local governments. Selected motor vehicle taxes and charges have been updated to 2006-07. The information sheet provides Australian Government road expenditure by program for the year 2007-08 and updates BITRE's Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index to 2008-09. |
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| Information Sheet 30: Fuel Consumption by New Passenger Vehicles in Australia 1979-2008 | August 2009 |
| BITRE has examined trends in the fuel consumption of new passenger vehicles sold in Australia. Up to 2001, technological advances in engine technology, which improved fuel efficiency, were offset by increases in power, weight and the popularity of 4WD vehicles. Since 2001 the overall trend in fuel consumption has continued to decrease with average new light vehicle fuel consumption down 8.4 per cent to 8.14 litres per 100 kilometres (L/100 km). |
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| Information sheet 34 - Road and rail freight: competitors or complements? | July 2009 |
Up until the early 1960s, railways dominated all but the shortest land-based freight task. Since then, vast improvements in road vehicle productivity and road infrastructure quality, the gradual removal of regulations restricting road freight carriage and the exponential growth in interstate trade has broadened the range of freight tasks for which road is better suited than rail.
Yet both road and rail and also sea and air continue to play important roles in transporting Australia's diverse freight task. Each mode has attributes that render them more suitable, and generally less costly, for particular transport tasks. For example, the flexibility of road transport for urban goods distribution is unassailable; equally, the scale economies of rail over longer distances and for bulk commodities advantage it, over road, for these tasks. |
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| Information sheet 32 - Changes in Australia's industry structure: main cities 2001-06. | June 2009 |
| BITRE's Industry Structure Database and information sheet 32 present the latest regional industry trends. The study analyses the shifting geography of employment and highlights the dynamics of industry structure in Australia's main cities between 2001 and 2006. This is an update of the first Industry Structure study (and the database) which was published in 2003. |
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| Freight rates in Australia 1964-65 to 2007-08 - Information sheet 28 | November 2008 |
| This Information Sheet provides indexed trends in average interstate non-bulk freight rates, from 1964-65 to 2007-08, updating the freight rate indexes previously published in Freight Rates in Australia, Information Sheet 19 (BTRE 2002). The estimates show that, following generally declining real freight rates over the previous two decades, real freight rates for road, rail and long-distance coastal shipping have risen since 2000-01 (Table 1 provides nominal and real indexed freight rate series and Figures 1 to 4 illustrate indexed trends in real freight rates). Recent increases in crude oil prices, and flow through to diesel fuel prices, have been an important contributing factor in recent freight rate increases for road, rail and coastal shipping. |
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| Information Sheet 23 - Public Road-Related Expenditure and Revenue in Australia (2004 update) | October 2004 |
| The total amount of road-related expenditure by the Australian, State, Territory and Local Governments in 2001-02 was $7.6 billion. Between 1998-99 and 2001-02 road-related expenditure increased by an average of $99.4 million per year. Over this period Commonwealth and State government road-related expenditure increased while Local government road-related expenditure decreased |
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| Information Sheet 18 - Fuel Consumption by New Passenger Vehicles in Australia | September 2002 |
| BTRE has examined trends in the fuel consumption of new passenger vehicles. The overall trend in fuel consumption was down during the 1980s. However during the 1990s, a more gradual reduction in the fuel consumption of cars, coupled with increasing sales of 4-wheel-drive vehicles, saw fuel consumption for new passenger vehicles as a whole stabilise. |
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| Information Sheet 15 - Trends in Trucks and Traffic | October 1999 |
| Increasingly in Australia, trucking is an essential feature of economic activity, with road being the only mode possible for much freight traffic (eg in cities), and with rail tending to be less competitive than road on many intercity links. |
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| Information Sheet 14 - Urban Transport: Looking Ahead | August 1999 |
| Australian cities have been transformed from fairly tightly knit core-and-spoke configurations, to sprawling suburban low-density configurations. This transformation of urban land use has been accompanied and made possible by a rapid improvement and spread of the road system, and an even more rapid expansion in per person car ownership. |
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| Information Sheet 8 - Costs of maritime accidents in Australia, 1993 | December 1995 |
BTCE (1992) Social cost of transport accidents in Australia, Report 79, p. 52, estimated the total cost of rail accidents in 1988 as $94.5 million (in 1988 dollars). The Information Sheet table provides
updated estimates, including comparable figures for 1988 and 1993 that are expressed in 1993 dollars. |
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| Information Sheet 7 - Costs of rail accidents in Australia - 1993 | December 1995 |
BTCE (1992) Social cost of transport accidents in Australia, Report 79, p. 52, estimated the total cost of rail accidents in 1988 as $94.5 million (in 1988 dollars). The Information Sheet table provides
updated estimates, including comparable figures for 1988 and 1993 that are expressed in 1993 dollars. |
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| Information Sheet 5 - Costs of Aviation Accidents in Australia -1993 | January 1994 |
| This Information Paper details the costs of aviation accidents in Australia for 1993. Costs have been grouped into six broad categories: lost earnings of victims; family and community losses; pain and suffering; aircraft damage and property loss; insurance administration; and other. |
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