This report presents road deaths and road death rates for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations and Australia. The rates allow for a comparison of Australia’s road safety performance with that of other OECD nations by accounting for the differing levels of population, motorisation and distances travelled. The latest available international data is for 2023.

Fatalities per 100,000 population is the measure specified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Indicator 3.61) to monitor road crash trauma.

This report is the latest in the BITRE series of annual road crash statistical reports. It presents annual counts of road deaths, injuries and standardised rates.

A quarterly publication tracking counts of fatalities in crashes that involve heavy vehicles.

Latest Quarter: Jul-Sep 2024

Archives

• Archived Road Deaths In Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles–Quarterly Bulletins

This report allows understanding on forecasting of city passenger travel by motor vehicles and urban public transport. It will aid planning and policy development regarding urban public transport and motor vehicle traffic in cities.

• Public transport use in Australia's capital cities, Modelling and forecasting
  
  report_129.pdf
  (7.12 MB)

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

• BITRE Road Construction and Maintenance Price Index–2012 update
  
  is_045.pdf
  (821.38 KB)

This information sheet presents estimates of vehicle kilometres travelled in Australia from 1990 to 2012 and vehicle fuel intensity estimates for the same time period. These estimates are presented by vehicle type by fuel type by state, and have also been prepared for capital cities. The information sheet outlines the methodology used to construct these estimates together with an overview of the estimates. The electronic data tables present complete VKT data at a disaggregated level for use in further analysis.

• State and Capital City vehicle kilometres travelled, 1990–2012
  
  is_044.pdf
  (1.57 MB)

• State and Capital City vehicle kilometres travelled, 1990–2012–tables
  
  
  is_044.xls
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Older issues of Road Deaths Australia are available below.

• 2025 and later
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010

Latest summaries of road crash deaths and fatal road crashes are presented here. Updates are monthly and published on BITRE's website on or around the 14th of each month.

Data are sourced from the road traffic or police authorities in each jurisdiction. Data are preliminary and subject to revision.

Latest Month

• Link to Monthly Bulletin: Monthly road deaths | National Road Safety Data Hub
• Road Deaths Australia—Dashboard

Archives

• Archived Road Deaths Australia—Monthly Fatality Statistics

The main issue relating to the section of the National Highway linking Hobart, Launceston and Burnie between Penguin and Burnie is whether to retain the coastal alignment for the National Highway or to adopt an alternative inland route. This appraisal covers both options and provides a recommendation for the future.

• National Highways Linking Hobart, Launceston and Burnie: Appraisal of Penguinto Burnie Section, 1978
  
  report_037.pdf
  (1.54 MB)

This Report assesses the relative efficiencies of road and rail in the transportation of several bulk commodities. The work explores potential constraints to the efficient transportation of bulk commodities, including the pricing systems applied by road and rail operators.

• Relative Efficiencies in the Transportation of Commodities
  
  report_076.pdf
  (3.99 MB)