Chapter 5
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024 - Download PDF
- Passengers—Yearbook 2024 (195 KB) - Download Excel file
This chapter provides information on passenger transport activity, including nationally, by city pair, by capital city and by method of travel to work. The data in this chapter comes from a variety of sources, being from BITRE's estimates, the ABS' Census Basic Community Profiles Series and from Tourism Research Australia.
- 163 billion passenger kilometres were travelled by car on capital city roads in 2023–24, returning to pre COVID pandemic levels of 2018–19.
- 15 billion passenger kilometres were travelled on heavy rail networks in 2023–24.
- 18 billion passenger kilometres were travelled on heavy rail in 2018–19, prior to any COVID impacts.
Passenger transport activity (Figure 11) is measured by passenger kilometres (the number of kilometres travelled by passenger vehicles multiplied by the number of occupants in the vehicle).
Figure 11 Total national motorised passenger travel, by transport mode
The Australian domestic passenger task is dominated by road transport, mainly passenger cars (Figure 12, right axis). Passenger travel on other modes has generally been increasing, albeit with a dip over the pandemic period. Air travel expectedly fell most significantly, however in 2023–24 it had recovered to near its pre-pandemic level.
Figure 12 Australian domestic passenger task, by mode of transport
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2025
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. You can download the PDF or data files:
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2025 (PDF 9.3 MB)
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2025 data (ZIP: 1.4 MB)
For a summary of each chapter select from the list below:
Freight
Passengers
Road-related Revenue and Expenditure
Road
Rail
Aviation
Shipping
Transport Safety
Transport Energy and Environment
Infrastructure and the Economy
Infrastructure Construction
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. You can download the PDF or data files:
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024 (PDF 9.2 MB)
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024 data (ZIP: 2 MB)
For a summary of each chapter select from the list below:
Infrastructure and the Economy
Infrastructure Construction
Road-related Revenue and Expenditure
Freight
Passengers
Road
Rail
Aviation
Shipping
Transport Safety
Transport Energy and Environment
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics - Yearbook 2023
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. Download the PDF or select a chapter below. Data files for each chapter are at the bottom of the page.
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2023 - PDF (7.23 MB)
Infrastructure and the Economy
Infrastructure Construction
Road-related Revenue and Expenditure
Freight
Passengers
Road
Rail
Aviation
Shipping
Transport Safety
Transport Energy and Environment
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics - Yearbook 2022
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community.
The publication is primarily a source of long-term, aggregate time series infrastructure statistics. Most statistics included in the publication are currently collected by BITRE or other Australian, state or territory government agencies.
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics - Yearbook 2021
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community.
The publication is primarily a source of long-term, aggregate time series infrastructure statistics. Most statistics included in the publication are currently collected by BITRE or other Australian, state or territory government agencies.
The Yearbook has 11 chapters:
Australian Infrastructure Statistics—Yearbook 2020
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community.
The publication is primarily a source of long-term, aggregate time series infrastructure statistics. Most statistics included in the publication are currently collected by BITRE or other Australian, state or territory government agencies.
The Yearbook is presented in five parts:
The yearbook is accompanied by the Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics Booklet which is a summary of statistics from the yearbook.
Australian Infrastructure Statistics—Yearbook 2019
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 2019–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
- Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics 2019
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2019 Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy
ZIP: [95 KB] - Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2019 Part T–Transport
ZIP: [1029 KB] - Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2019 Part E–Energy
ZIP: [349 KB] - Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2019 Part C–Communication
ZIP: [92 KB] - Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2019 Part W–Water
ZIP: [96 KB]
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, 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.
To complement the Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook, BITRE has developed an Infrastructure Construction Dashboard. The Infrastructure Construction Dashboard presents quarterly updates on transport, communications, energy and water infrastructure construction, based on the ABS Engineering Construction Activity series.
- Yearbook 2018–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
- Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics 2018
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018 Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018 Part T–Transport
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018 Part E–Energy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018 Part C–Communication
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018 Part W–Water
Australian Infrastructure Statistics—Yearbook 2017
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 2017–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
- Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics 2017
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2017 Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2017 Part T–Transport
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2017 Part E–Energy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2017 Part C–Communication
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2017 Part W–Water