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
  
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• State and Capital City vehicle kilometres travelled, 1990–2012–tables
  
  
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The Sydney report discusses changes in the geography of population and employment and the impacts on commuting. It also investigates the trends in relation to the relevant strategic planning goals. The analysis focuses on changes between 2001 and 2010 (wherever data is available). It explores changes at a range of geographical scales to convey an understanding of the overarching patterns as well as some of the finer details.

• Population growth, jobs growth and commuting flows in Sydney
  
  report_132.pdf
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Paper given to the 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, 29 September–1 October 2010, Canberra. Authors: Hema de Silva, Anatoli Lightfoot.

• Commuting to Work by Private Vehicle in Melbourne: Trends and Policy Implications
  
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Paper given to the 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 28–30 September 2011, Adelaide. Authors: Hema de Silva, Leanne Johnson, Karen Wade.

• Long Distance Commuters in Australia: A Socio-Economic and Demographic Profile
  
  sp_005_DeSilva_Johnson_Wade.pdf
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This report describes an overview of the different patterns of traffic growth in Australia's states and capital cities and their determinants. Understanding the determinants of past and likely future traffic growth is important for understanding the needs for infrastructure investment, for congestion amelioration, for the road safety task and for many other trends that concern governments and citizens.

• Traffic Growth in Australia
  
  report_127.pdf
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This report describes an overview of the different patterns of traffic growth in 25 Countries, and their determinants. There is a remarkable commonality in these determinants, but the variety of their operations has generated an amazing variety of traffic growth patterns. Understanding the determinants of past and likely future traffic growth is important to understand the needs for infrastructure investment, for congestion amelioration, for the road safety task and many other trends that concern governments and citizens in all the 25 countries.

• Traffic Growth: Modelling a Global Phenomenon
  
  report_128.pdf
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During 1976 and 1977 the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation and the Geelong Regional Planning Authority undertook a major study of recreational activity in the Geelong area. As part of that study, John Paterson Urban Systems was commissioned to undertake an extensive household survey and to develop a set of recreation site usage models for locations in the Geelong region. These data, together with information on environmental usage limits for each site in the region were used in the development of recreational area management programmes.

• Recreation Demand Modelling
  
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In March 1982 the Northern Transport Study Committee presented a submission to the Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) on the inadequacies of the transport system serving the Gwydir and Macintyre River Valleys, commonly referred to as the north-west slopes and plains area of New South Wales. Subsequently, in response to a Ministerial reference the BTE undertook this study in which the economic and financial implications of a range of transport alternatives for this region are examined.

• Central North NSW Transport Alternatives
  
  report_057.pdf
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This Paper examines the significance of road construction and maintenance in relation to the wide role of local government. It covers the sources of funds and the decision-making processes relating to road activities. The intergovernmental relations and institutional features governing road investment are also examined.

• Role of Rural Local Government in the Provision of Roads: A Review
  
  op_069.pdf
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This Report describes a case study of capacity of regional transport infrastructure to meet current and future demands of industry.

• Transport and Regional Economic Development
  
  report_074.pdf
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