Modelling Road Safety in Australian States and Territories
This Information Sheet describes modelling of road fatality rates for the eight Australian States and Territories, and fatality and injury rates for Australia as a whole. The models are constructed 1) to allow an understanding of the past forces underlying the fatality rates in each jurisdiction covered, and 2) to allow forecasts of future trends in road safety–or rather its obverse, death and injury.
- Modelling Road Safety in Australian States and Territories
- Modelling Road Safety in Australian States and Territories
Spending by Australian households on owning and operating vehicles in 2015–16
This Information Sheet presents data on Australian households' expenditure patterns, based on the ABS Household Expenditure Survey (HES) for 2015–16. It updates BITRE Information Sheet 86 Spending by Australian households on owning and operating vehicles (BITRE 2017a), which relied on 2009–10 HES data. It details the composition of household expenditure on owning and operating vehicles and explores variation in the incidence of these costs across different types of households, such as capital city and regional households, and high income and low income households. This updated analysis also investigates changes in vehicle-related spending since 2009–10, with the aim of identifying any significant changes that have occurred for particular types of regions or particular demographic groups.
- Spending by Australian households on owning and operating vehicles in 2015–16
Road construction cost and infrastructure procurement benchmarking: 2017 update
This report benchmarks the costs of road construction and the timeliness of infrastructure procurement processes for projects undertaken by states and territories since 2015. BITRE undertook the analysis under the guidance of the Infrastructure Working Group of the Transport and Infrastructure Council. Road construction costs include total project costs and key cost components such as construction and project management. The procurement timeliness benchmarks cover all stages of procurement from the initial notice of the project to financial completion. This report is an update of the Transport and Infrastructure Council's 2015 Infrastructure Benchmarking Report and contributes to the goal of improving value for money in infrastructure investment.
- Road construction cost and infrastructure procurement benchmarking: 2017 update
Freightline 5—Australian cotton freight transport
The Freightline series is intended to provide information on interregional freight movements across Australia, filling a major gap in Australian transport-related data and information, to help better inform and support policy development and infrastructure planning. Freightline 1 provides a broad overview of the freight task. Subsequent issues consider specific commodity freight tasks, and include more detailed information about the size and location of major freight movements, supply chain composition and key infrastructure components. This issue (Freightline 5) focusses on Australian cotton transport supply chains and freight movements in 2015–16.
- Freightline 5–Australian cotton freight transport
Ex-post Economic Evaluation of National Road Investment Projects
BITRE undertook two rounds of ex-post evaluations of national road investment projects: one in 2005–2007 and the other in 2014–2016. Available evidence suggests that there is much room for improvement in the quality of Australian road CBAs if they are to be used as an effective tool for ranking options and prioritising projects. The net present value (NPV) was over-estimated by significant margins in some of the selected case study projects. Over-estimation in NPV was largely caused by over-estimation of road user benefits (up to 500 per cent), with the errors mostly coming from travel time cost saving estimates. Inaccurate traffic forecasts and methodology errors were mostly responsible for the over-estimated road user benefits. There was no evidence of systematic cost overruns for the projects selected for ex-post review. Lessons learned include recommendations for improvements in CBA documentation and review, traffic forecasts, and estimation of road user benefits and residual values.
- Ex-post Economic Evaluation of National Road Investment Projects–Volume 1 Synthesis Report
- Ex-post Economic Evaluation of National Road Investment Projects–Volume 2 Case Studies
Greenhouse gas abatement potential of the Australian transport sector—Summary report
In recognition of both the progress of climate science and the need to manage the risks faced by future generations, the majority of the world's governments are implementing programs for the long term reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, the Australian government has committed to an 80 per cent reduction on the 2000 levels of emissions for the Australian economy by 2050.
As the second largest greenhouse gas emission contributing sector in the economy at 16% of national emissions, transport will need to make a significant contribution to the abatement target. The question then arises as to the potential greenhouse gas abatement options available to the sector.
The Australian transport industry, researchers and government have in many cases deep knowledge about the issues of environmental sustainability, and individual transport sector greenhouse gas abatement options. However, that knowledge is fragmented due to the diversity and complexity of transport.
There are existing studies of transport abatement options but they are limited to a narrow subset of the available options. As a consequence no single document is available to provide an overview of the options and potential for abatement in the transport sector. With this background the ARRB Group, BITRE and CSIRO formed the Australian Low Carbon Transport Forum (ALCTF) in July 2011 to bring together knowledge on the options for greenhouse gas abatement in transport and explore how deeply emissions could be cut in the sector.
- Greenhouse gas abatement potential of the Australian transport sector–Summary report
Greenhouse gas abatement potential of the Australian transport sector—Technical report
The Australian Low Carbon Transport Forum (ALCTF) was initiated by a project secretariat comprising ARRB Group, BITRE and CSIRO. It was organised to bring together knowledge on the options for greenhouse gas abatement in transport and explore how deeply emissions could be cut in the sector.
A report describing the main findings of the study has been published under the title Greenhouse gas abatement potential of the Australian transport sector: Summary report.
This current Technical Report is a companion document to the Summary Report, and aims to detail the methodology and results of the ALCTF process. That is, it describes how the estimated levels of abatement were calculated for each of the abatement options considered in the ALCFT workshops, and how the various abatement potentials were aggregated into an estimate for the maximal potential reduction.
- Greenhouse gas abatement potential of the Australian transport sector–Technical report
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
Road Safety in Australia–Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides key road fatality data for 2015 and 2016, and how some key statistics have changed since the base years (2008 to 2010) of the National Road Safety Strategy 2011–2020.
- Road Safety in Australia–Fact Sheet
Measuring infrastructure asset performance and customer satisfaction: A review of existing frameworks
Well-managed, modern and functioning infrastructure underpins much of the economic prosperity of Australia. It is thus crucial that Australia's infrastructure keeps up with the needs of the community.
While some infrastructure asset types, namely public roads and airports, have made significant progress in performance measurement, for others there is a dearth of information or public engagement. The patchwork approach that has resulted means that Australia may be missing out on the potential benefits of consistent and widespread performance measurement: improved accountability, incentivised performance, and better performance evaluation. This report introduces and explores many of the issues surrounding infrastructure performance measurement that should be considered in the context of providing greater consistency across infrastructure asset types.
- Measuring infrastructure asset performance and customer satisfaction: A review of existing frameworks