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Relationship between transport use and income in Australia

This Information Sheet explores the relationship between income and transport use in Australia by identifying the nature of the relationship between income and different types of transport use, and how public transport …

Release date: 2 July 2019

Statistics

BITRE summary—Economic Contribution of Transport in Australia

Experimental estimates of the economic contribution of all transport activity to the Australian economy. BITRE summary–Economic Contribution of Transport in Australia

Release date: 2 March 2019

Information Sheet

Economies of scope and regional services

This paper explores how producing different services together, or the scope of production, affects the spatial distribution of services in Australia's regions. Clusters of different types of economic activity, from the …

Release date: 2 March 2019

Information Sheet

Economies of scale and regional services

Economies of scale are a common feature of the cost structure of service providers. This paper discussed how economies of scale incentivise the geographic centralisation of services because they make it cheaper to suppl…

Release date: 2 March 2019

Information Sheet

Measuring Gross Regional Product

This information sheet provides an introduction to measuring the total value of goods and services produced in a region, known as Gross Regional Product (GRP), as well as conceptual and practical limitations of this mea…

Release date: 2 March 2019

Research Report

Prices for Petrol and Gasoline—Modelling a Global Phenomenon

The report models petrol prices in 24 countries around the world - the world oil price determines the energy content of the petrol price, and then adding in taxes produces a prediction of the country's petrol price. The…

Release date: 2 March 2019

Information Sheet

An introduction to where Australians live

This paper provides an introduction to how people are distributed spatially across Australia. The discussion is broken into two sections. The first describes the distribution of where people live across Australia, exami…

Release date: 2 February 2019

Research Report

What is Access?

This paper sets out a framework of access, with a particular focus on access to services.

Release date: 2 February 2019

Research Report

What are services and who provides them?

In this paper we define services and provide an overview of who produces them and why. The first section defines a service as a type of product that can only be consumed while production is taking place. This rests on t…

Release date: 2 February 2019

Research Report

Creative skills for the future economy

Our analysis looks at the skills and qualifications of people working in creative fields and how these may be used in the future.

Release date: 15 January 2019

Statistics

Australian Infrastructure Statistics—Yearbook 2018

The Australian infrastructure statistics yearbook provides a comprehensive evidence base to examine long-term and emerging trends as well as inform policy development and regulatory reform in the transport, energy, wate…

Release date: 2 December 2018

Research Report

Aviation activity as a leading indicator of economic activity

This study investigates whether data on domestic aviation activity in Australia could be used as an indicator of Australian economic activity–with the view of developing an indicator of regional economic activity should…

Release date: 2 November 2018

Statistics

Freightline 7—Australian aluminium industry freight transport

The Freightline series is intended to provide information on interregional freight movements across Australia, filling a major gap in Australian transport-related data and information, to help better inform and support …

Release date: 2 November 2018

Statistics

Progress in Australian Regions Yearbook 2018

This is not the latest release. View the latest release The Progress in Australian Regions–Yearbook is a statistical resource that measures progress in a region against social, economic, environmental and governanc…

Release date: 2 November 2018

Statistics

Trainline 6

Trainline is a compendium of Australia's railways providing insights, analysis and an understanding of the railway industry. Australia's railways are evolving via changes within and outside the industry.

Release date: 2 November 2018

Information Sheet

Working Zones 2016

This is not the latest release. View the latest Working zones update This report provides an overview of the newly developed Australian 'working zone' (WZ) regions which have been compiled by the Bureau of Infrastr…

Release date: 2 November 2018