This Information Sheet presents estimates of urban passenger fares in major Australian cities from 1952-53 to 2015-16. A taxi fare index is available separately from 1996-97 to 2015-16. The general trend has been for rising real urban passenger fares, except during the period 1973-74 to 1979-80, when real fares fell as nominal fare levels failed to keep up with higher inflation rates. Rises in both real urban passenger fares and real taxi fares slowed after 2000-01.

• Urban Passenger fares
  
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This information sheet analyses fatal crashes and fatalities involving light commercial vehicles. Light commercial vehicles account for more than 1 in 6 registered vehicles and almost 1 in 5 of total vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT).

In 2015 crashes involving light commercial vehicles accounted for 262 road deaths (21 per cent of road deaths), down 3.7 per cent on 2014. Deaths in crashes involving light commercial vehicles were down 5.0 per cent on the National Road Safety Strategy base period 2008–2010, less than light passenger vehicle involved crashes (down 16.4 per cent). This is partly due to greater exposure. Adjusting for VKT, light commercial vehicle fatal crash rates are still 17 per cent higher per billion VKT than for light passenger vehicles.

• Light commercial vehicle safety
  
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Paper prepared for the ANZSOG Infrastructure Research Workshop, Canberra, 2015. Author: Mark Harvey

• Shifting the Transport Infrastructure Debate

This information sheet presents an estimate of the number of drivers licences in Australia from 1922 to 2016. Also included are estimates of drivers licences in each Australian State and Territory from 1922 to 2016. Long-term trends in licences per person, both Australia-wide and in each State/Territory, are shown to be in the form of saturating logistic curves. These are modelled, first for Australian in aggregate, and then for each State/Territory.

• Drivers Licences in Australia
  
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• State Licences 2018
  
  state_licences_2018.xlsx
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This information sheet presents estimates of air, rail and bus passenger fares between major Australian cities from 1960 to 2016. Data for nine intercity routes are provided in this analysis. Real dollar fare values for the medium-distance routes have declined across all modes since 1960 but the trends have not been similar and fare trends have often been disrupted.

• Intercity Passenger fares
  
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This Excel sheet provides summary series of hospitalised injuries (injury resulting in confirmed admission to hospital, but not in-hospital death) from road traffic crashes from calendar years 2011 to 2021. These series are produced by the Road Safety Data Hub using data sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, with that raw data also included in the file.

The latest 2023 updates have added new data for 2020 and 2021, and new detailed tables on States and Territories:

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• state-and-territory-hospitalisation-injury-publication-2023.xlsx
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• First-Nations-hospitalised-injuries-2023.xlsx
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• hospitalised-injury-data-dictionary-september-2023.pdf
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This information sheet presents estimates of the BITRE Road Construction and maintenance Price (RCMP) from 1910-11 and a model of its movements tied to the Australian diesel price, average weekly earnings and the capital expenditure to GDP ratio. Also included is a forecast to 2030.

• Modelled Road Construction and maintenance Price Index
  
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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
  
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This Information Sheet presents 2013–14 road traffic volumes across the Australian National Land Transport Network (NLTN)–the integrated network of land transport linkages of strategic national importance. It is an update on estimates presented for 2011–12 in BITRE Information Sheet 63.

• Traffic on the national road network, 2013–14
  
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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
  
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