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Trainline 3

Trainline 3 is a collaborative compendium between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and BITRE, providing insights, analysis, and an understanding of the Australian freight and passenger railway industry.Austral…

Release date: 2 November 2015

Statistics

Trainline 2

Trainline 2 is a collaborative report between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and BITRE. It is a further development of the previous rail freight performance publications series and Trainline 1.The report pro…

Release date: 2 November 2014

Research Report

Understanding Australia's urban railways

Understanding Australia's Urban Railways provides an overview of the urban passenger and freight railways in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. For passenger rail, the report explores service provision; pa…

Release date: 2 July 2012

Statistics

TrainLine 1

TrainLine 1 is a collaborative report between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and BITRE. It is a further development of the previous rail freight performance publications series. This report provides an overv…

Release date: 2 June 2012

Research Report

Brief—A profile of high-speed railways

This paper discusses high-speed train services. The paper sets out what is meant by 'high-speed', explains the objective of introducing services and sets out where they have been introduced. The paper also considers fun…

Release date: 2 September 2010

Research Report

Interstate freight in Australia

This report provides estimates and forecasts of interstate freight moving between 56 state-to-state origin-destination pairs, for example, South Australia-Queensland.Interstate freight in Australia

Release date: 2 September 2010

Statistics

Rail Freight Performance Indicators 2007–08—Statistical Report

This statistical report is the third in this series and is a result of collaboration between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).Rail Fre…

Release date: 2 February 2010

Statistics

Rail Freight Performance Indicators 2007–08

This statistical report is the third in this series and is a result of collaboration between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).Rail Fre…

Release date: 2 February 2010

Information Sheet

Road and Rail Freight: Competitors or Complements?

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 r…

Release date: 2 July 2009

Information Sheet

Freight Rates in Australia 1964–65 to 2007–08

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 She…

Release date: 2 November 2008

Statistics

Australian intercapital rail freight performance indicators 2006–07

Results for 2006–07 are reported against a set of 11 railway indicators. These are in three groups: three train indicators, four track indicators and four market indicators.Australian intercapital rail freight performan…

Release date: 2 June 2008

Research Report

The pitfalls in competitive tendering: addressing the risks revealed by experience in Australia and Britain

Paper presented to European Conference of Ministers of Transport "Workshop on Competitive Tendering for Rail Services" held in Paris on 12 January 2006. Paper to be published in forthcoming ECMT Workshop Proceedings. Au…

Release date: 2 September 2007

Statistics

Australian rail freight performance indicators 2005–06

In 2002, the ATC approved a set of six targets and indicators to measure improvements over time in performance of the interstate rail track. Early reports against the indicators were derived entirely from track managers…

Release date: 2 June 2007

Research Report

Filling a gap in rail data: an investigation of the Gheringhap Loop train sightings

This paper analyses train sightings data collected at Gheringhap, Victoria, located on the Melbourne to Adelaide main line. These sightings provide an independent source of information on train movements, train lengths,…

Release date: 2 March 2007

Information Sheet

Costs of Rail Accidents in Australia—1993

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 estimate…

Release date: 2 December 2006

Statistics

Passenger Movements between Australian Cities, 1970–71 to 2030–31

BTRE has recently completed estimates of passenger movements by various modes (i.e. air, car, coach and rail) between major Australian cities (covering ten main routes) from 1970–71 to 2003–04 and predicted passenger fl…

Release date: 2 December 2006