This information sheet presents estimates of petrol and diesel prices in Australia from 1925-26 to the present. Then a relationship is derived, linking Australian fuel prices to international oil prices over the same period. The result is a basic one-to-one link at the wharf between world oil prices and Australian fuel prices.

• Petrol Prices and Diesel Prices in Australia
  
  is_082.pdf
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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, water and communications sectors. It is the only comprehensive source of time series statistics for Australia's major areas of economic infrastructure. The yearbook is accompanied by the Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics Booklet which is a summary of statistics from the yearbook.

• Yearbook 2016–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  BITRE_yearbook_2016_statistics_full_report.pdf
  (12.87 MB)
• Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics 2016
  
  BITRE_yearbook_2016_pocket_book.pdf
  (2.23 MB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2016
  
  Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy
  
  Part_I_Infrastructure_and_the_Economy.zip
  (72.18 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2016
  
  Part T–Transport
  
  Part_T_Transport.zip
  (914.84 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2016
  
  Part E–Energy
  
  Part_E_Energy.zip
  (440.52 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2016
  
  Part C–Communication
  
  Part_C_Communications.zip
  (106.45 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2016
  
  Part W–Water
  
  Part_W_Water.zip
  (425.14 KB)

This paper provides an overview of toll roads in Australia based on available information. It covers a range of subjects including information on traffic performance, industry structure and benefits of toll roads and future challenges.

• Toll Roads in Australia
  
  is_081.pdf
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This information sheet covers a wide range of subjects, including commuting, freight, rail, energy and safety. The following 12 facts are included:

1. How big is the transport network?
2. How far do we travel?
3. Is this increasing?
4. How do we travel?
5. Are we changing how we travel?
6. Why do we travel like this?
7. What about freight?
8. Is freight transport increasing?
9. Are we commuting longer?
10. How do we pay for transport?
11. Is transport becoming more energy efficient and causing less emissions? and
12. Is transport safety improving?

• A dozen facts about transport in Australia
  
  is_075.pdf
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This Information Sheet covers a wide range of subjects, including volume and length of commuting, traffic congestion and commuting patterns. The following five questions are discussed:

1. Is commuting a big part of urban transport demand?
2. Is it true that a lot of people are spending hours stuck in traffic?
3. What has an Italian physicist got to do with commuting?
4. Why do some people commute longer? and
5. Are our commuting patterns changing?

• Five facts about commuting in Australia
  
  is_077.pdf
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The research provides a solid evidence-base to understand who is undertaking lengthy commutes (those longer than 45 minutes one way), their prevalence and trends. It also explores whether some individuals undertake lengthy commutes for long periods or whether it tends to be temporary.

• Lengthy commutes in Australia
  
  rr_144.pdf
  (23.61 MB)

• Data figures from report 144
  
  Data_Figures_Report144.xlsx
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The 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, water and communications sectors. It is the only comprehensive source of time series statistics for Australia's major areas of economic infrastructure. The Yearbook is accompanied by the key Australian infrastructure statistics booklet which is a summary of statistics from the Yearbook.

• Yearbook 2015–Australian Infrastructure Statistics 

• Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics 2015 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  Yearbook 2015
  Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  Yearbook 2015
  Part T–Transport 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  Yearbook 2015
  Part E–Energy 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  Yearbook 2015
  Part C–Communication 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  Yearbook 2015
  Part W–Water 

The avoidable cost of congestion for the Australian capital cities is estimated to be around $16.5 billion for the 2015 financial year, having grown from about $12.8 billion for 2010. BITRE 'business-as-usual' projections of these costs of metropolitan congestion rise to around $30 billion by 2030–with the various modelling scenarios conducted giving aggregate 2030 results of between $27.7 and $37.3 billion, depending upon the chosen assumptions.

• Traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian capital cities
  
  is_074.pdf
  (1.71 MB)

• VKT and Summary Cost Data
  
  is_074.xlsx
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The 2011 average commuting distances reflect recent evidence on commuting from home to a place of work at a range of spatial classifications or localities. The main interest is in understanding the patterns and average commuting distances under current land use and availability of transport infrastructure.

• Australia's commuting distance: cities and regions
  
  is_073.pdf
  (1.79 MB)

Users of the transport network are not its only beneficiaries. Land owners can also gain as increased value flows along the network are capitalised into land. Value uplift financing attempts to capture a portion of this by levying the landholders in the catchment areas of new infrastructure. The main problem with this system is that is very difficult to localise benefits in a network. This has led some to propose a broad based land tax instead.

• Transport infrastructure and land value uplift
  
  is_069.pdf
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