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:

1. Freight	2. Passengers
3. Road-related revenue and expenditure	4. Road
5. Rail	6. Aviation
7. Shipping	8. Transport safety
9. Transport energy and environment	10. Infrastructure and the economy
11. Infrastructure construction

This release provides statistics relating to the number of vehicles registered for road use in Australia on 31 January 2025. The statistics encompass all vehicles that were registered with an Australian state or territory motor vehicle registry for unrestricted use on public roads, as reported by jurisdictions to the National Exchange of Vehicle and Driver Information System (NEVDIS). This is the fourth annual release of Road Vehicles Australia and replaces the ABS Motor Vehicle Census, discontinued in 2021. Relevant statistics are available on data.gov.au.

The report addresses the challenge that low traffic volumes in remote and regional areas pose to traditional cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods to support road improvements in these areas in line with community expectations and government policy objectives. Roads in remote and regional areas are often provided at standards above what would be considered economically efficient levels under traditional CBA methods, but there is currently no clear way to make a recommendation as to an acceptable standard. This report develops ways to improve the efficiency, equity and transparency of decision-making for road funding in remote and regional areas. CBA is retained as the core appraisal tool with the additions of social benefits, wider economic benefits and equity weights. The development of the equity weights draws on recent thinking about equity and distributive justice from literature in the disciplines of philosophy, economics and transport planning.

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

This release provides statistics relating to the number of vehicles registered for road use in Australia on 31 January 2024. The statistics encompass all vehicles that were registered with an Australian state or territory motor vehicle registry for unrestricted use on public roads, and reported by jurisdictions to the National Exchange of Vehicle and Driver Information System (NEVDIS). This is the third annual release of Road Vehicles Australia, which replaces the ABS Motor Vehicle Census, discontinued in 2021. More statistics are available on the BITRE website and data.gov.au.

This publication is the fifth in an annual series that uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles on selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth – and, for the first time, two additional routes in Hobart. The selected routes comprise the major motorways, highways and arterial roads within each city that service both passenger and freight vehicles. This release includes congestion measures for 73 separate routes. The estimates presented in this report cover calendar year 2023.

This is the second year, since the initial report in 2019, where none of Australia’s capital cities experienced major lockdowns as part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and city-wide congestion levels have more or less returned to pre-pandemic levels. City-wide freight vehicle congestion, as measured by the mean excess travel time index, increased (worsened) slightly in Perth, remained more or less unchanged in Brisbane, and declined (improved) in the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide between 2022 and 2023. Copies of the summary measure data displayed in the report are also available here.

The excel tables present annual road deaths, population and road death rates per 100,000 population from 2012 to 2021 by state and territory (where data is available), by indigenous status. The excel tables include road deaths and road death rates per 100,000 population for First Nations Peoples by age group, sex, road user, remoteness area and vehicle type. Additional tables for First Nations Peoples population are available by state and territory and age group and sex.

• First-Nations-Peoples-road-deaths-2012-2021.xlsx
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Monthly statistics on road vehicles being provided to the Australian market, road vehicle recall notices and other road vehicle-related regulatory activities governed under the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 (RVSA).

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