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.

• Urban Public Transport: Recent Bus Transport Statistics
  
  is_033.pdf
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This information sheet contains a historical overview of road death statistics in Australian from 1925, when road deaths were first recorded, to 2008.

• Road Deaths in Australia 1925–2008
  
  is_038.pdf
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Road crashes impose large human and financial costs on society and substantial investments are made in infrastructure and safety programs to reduce road trauma. The cost of road crashes is important to the safety debate in Australia, and the unit values particularly for a fatality, injury or cost of a fatal crash are key inputs into policy development and cost-benefit analysis for safety programs and infrastructure projects. The social cost of road crashes in 2006 was an estimated $17.85 billion (1.7 per cent of GDP). This was a real decrease of 7.5 per cent compared to 1996 (2006 dollars). Estimated human losses were approximately $2.4 million per fatality, losses for a hospitalised injury were approximately $214 000 per injury (including disability-related costs), and losses for non-hospitalised injury were approximately $2200 per injury. These new estimates of the cost of road crashes update previous estimates for 1996 (Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) Road crash costs in Australia, Report 102).

• Cost of road crashes in Australia 2006
  
  report_118.pdf
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In Australia, road transport is the predominant mode for moving freight within the country, especially interstate and within capital cities. It represents a vital link in various logistics chains, providing access for freight to ports and terminals and urban freight distribution between warehouses and retail outlets. It is also the dominant mode for moving freight over relatively short distances and where alternatives are not readily available.

• Road freight estimates and forecasts in Australia: interstate, capital cities and rest of state
  
  report_121.pdf
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An earlier paper (Gargett et al 2009) showed, by very preliminary analysis of the Victorian road fatality rate, that a combination of increased seat belt wearing, random breath testing (RBT) and speed cameras explained almost all of the reduction in the Victorian road fatality rate since the late 1960s. The current analysis 1) extends the analysis to all states, 2) uses new estimates of vehicle kilometres travelled to derive an "exposure to death" variable and 3) includes actual measurements of state rates of seat belt wearing, as well as RBT and speed camera enforcement back to the inception of the programs in each state. The results of the analysis confirm the findings of the earlier paper seat belt wearing, RBT and speed cameras can explain almost all of the variation in fatality rates in all states since the late 1960s.

• Effectiveness of Measures to Reduce Road Fatality Rates
  
  is_039.pdf
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This information sheet aims to provide some statistical snapshots of the characteristics of fatal road crashes in Australia in the last two decades, 1990 to 2009, and complements the road safety statistical summary produced by BITRE each year which presents other key time series. It includes some insights into the types of crashes prevalent during this period, the major factors and the road user groups most frequently involved.

• Fatal Road Crashes in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s: Crash Types and Major Factors
  
  is_041.pdf
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Analysis of the impact of past heavy vehicle reforms on truck productivity and projected future productivity trends.

• Truck productivity: sources, trends and future prospects
  
  report_123.pdf
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This report develops a methodology for estimating traffic levels for each of the eight states and territories in Australia from March 1965 to June 2010. This method is based on state and territory fuel sales data. Quarterly traffic on capital city roads was also estimated. The motor vehicle types used were passenger vehicles (i.e. cars), motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, rigid trucks, articulated trucks and buses, while three different types of fuel were considered, i.e. petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas.

• Road vehicle-kilometres travelled: estimation from state and territory fuel sales
  
  report_124.pdf
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• Data for figures
  
  
  report_124_Data_for_Figures.xls
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• Data for tables
  
  
  report_124_Data_for_Tables.xls
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This publication provides the 2011 update of BITRE's Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index.

• BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index–2011 update
  
  is_042.pdf
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This Report presents input-price indexes for national road construction activity for the period 1969–70 to 1980–81.

• Road Construction Price Indexes 1969–70 to 1980–81
  
  report_049.pdf
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