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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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
  
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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 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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The Information Sheet provides revised estimates of road freight by State, capital city and rest-of-state. The long-term trend in growth has been substantial, interrupted only by the 1990 recession and the Global Financial Crisis.

• Australian road freight estimates: 2016 update
  
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The National Road Safety Strategy 2011–2020 (NRSS) presents a 10-year plan to reduce the annual numbers of both deaths and serious injuries on Australian roads by at least 30 per cent.

Australia's performance in addressing serious injuries from crashes is difficult to measure because of the lack of a reliable, nationally consistent, source of non-fatal crash data.

This information sheet details the current data sources, their limitations, and efforts currently underway to improve data for serious injury reporting.

• Developing national road safety indicators for injury
  
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This information sheet covers a wide range of subjects, including commuting, freight, rail, energy and safety. The following 12 facts are included:

1. How big is the transport network?
2. How far do we travel?
3. Is this increasing?
4. How do we travel?
5. Are we changing how we travel?
6. Why do we travel like this?
7. What about freight?
8. Is freight transport increasing?
9. Are we commuting longer?
10. How do we pay for transport?
11. Is transport becoming more energy efficient and causing less emissions? and
12. Is transport safety improving?

• A dozen facts about transport in Australia
  
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