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Changes in Australia's industry structure: cities and regions, 2006–2011

This Information Sheet identifies recent trends (2006 to 2011) in employment by various industries for regional areas, capital cities and non-capital cities. It updates BITRE's previous Information Sheet 32, which focus…

Release date: 2 January 2015

Information Sheet

BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index—2014 update

This Information Sheet presents the quarterly Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index figures for the year 2013–14. Additionally, it presents sub-indexes by activity type for road maintenance and road construction…

Release date: 2 December 2014

Research Report

A study of the potential for dedicated freight infrastructure in Australia

The National Ports Strategy was developed by Infrastructure Australia (IA) and the National Transport Commission (NTC) in 2010 at the request of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). Recommendation 3.10 of th…

Release date: 2 December 2014

Information Sheet

Major transport employment hubs

This Information Sheet identifies the 33 largest spatial concentrations of transport industry employment within Australia. These major transport employment hubs are all located within the five most populous capital citi…

Release date: 2 November 2014

Information Sheet

National profile of Transport, postal and warehousing workers

This study aims to improve understanding of the current characteristics of the Transport, postal and warehousing (TPW) workforce and how the workforce is evolving over time. It provides details of the sub-industries in …

Release date: 2 November 2014

Research Report

Overview of project appraisal for land transport

On 5 September2014, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, the HonJamie Briggs MP, released for public comment, a proposed project appraisal framework,developed by the Bureau of Infrastructure, …

Release date: 2 November 2014

Information Sheet

Traffic on the national road network, 2011–12

This Information Sheet presents recent road traffic volumes across the Australian National Land Transport Network in 2011–12, based on data provided by States and Territories. It includes charts showing volumes of heavy…

Release date: 2 November 2014

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

Information Sheet

Australian road freight estimates: 2014 update

This information sheet provides updated road freight estimates previously reported in Chapter 2 of BITRE Research Report 121. It gives estimates for interstate, intrastate, capital city and total road freight for each s…

Release date: 2 September 2014

Information Sheet

Long-term trends in urban public transport

BITRE Information Sheet 60 provides detailed long-term trend statistics for Australian urban passenger transport. Historical time-series on passenger movement within the Australian capital cities, covering more than a c…

Release date: 2 September 2014

Information Sheet

Saturating daily travel

The Information Sheet models and forecasts urban passenger travel in Australian and American cities from 1921 to present. Passenger travel per person is saturating and so future growth in total urban travel will be clos…

Release date: 2 September 2014

Information Sheet

Urban public transport: updated trends

BITRE Information Sheet 59 summarises recent trends in Australian urban passenger transport–contrasting strong growth in urban public transport (UPT) over the last decade (with 2013 task levels almost 30 per cent higher…

Release date: 2 September 2014

Information Sheet

Infrastructure, transport and productivity

This information sheet reviews trends in Australian productivity with a focus on the transport sector.Well targeted investments in transport infrastructure result in productivity increases that benefit many other indust…

Release date: 2 July 2014

Information Sheet

Who's using the roads: variations in usage by drivers

This information sheet presents estimates of the variation in use of roads by drivers.It finds that road use is highly unequally distributed among motorists, with most vehicles driven relatively low distances while a fe…

Release date: 2 July 2014

Information Sheet

BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index and Sub-Indexes—2013 update

This information sheet presents the 2013 re-calibrated BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index and Sub-Indexes. The revised index is an indicator of the change in input costs faced by the road construction a…

Release date: 2 November 2013

Statistics

BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index—2012 update

This publication provides the 2012 update of BITRE's Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index.BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index–2012 update

Release date: 2 December 2012