Petrol Prices and Diesel Prices in Australia

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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.

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Australian Infrastructure Statistics—Yearbook 2016

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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.

Traffic on the national road network, 2013–14

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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.

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Toll Roads in Australia

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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.

Australian road freight estimates: 2016 update

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978-1-925401-77-6
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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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Developing national road safety indicators for injury

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978-1-925401-70-8
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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.

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Five facts about commuting in Australia

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978-1-925401-74-5
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This Information Sheet covers a wide range of subjects, including volume and length of commuting, traffic congestion and commuting patterns. The following five questions are discussed:

  1. Is commuting a big part of urban transport demand?
  2. Is it true that a lot of people are spending hours stuck in traffic?
  3. What has an Italian physicist got to do with commuting?
  4. Why do some people commute longer? and
  5. Are our commuting patterns changing?
  • Five facts about commuting in Australia
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Heavy truck safety: crash analysis and trends

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978-1-925401-45-5
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This paper analyses road traffic crashes involving heavy trucks, highlighting characteristics such as severity, location, temporarily and type of crash. A brief introduction to the regulatory environment and statistical summaries of Australia's heavy vehicle fleet are also provided.

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Freightline 3—Australia sugar freight transport

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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. The Freightline series begins with a broad overview of the freight task, followed by separate commodity-specific issues that provide more detailed information about the size and location of major freight movements, supply chain composition and key infrastructure components. Freightline 3 (this issue) focusses on Australian sugar-related transport supply chains and freight movements in 2011–12.

Australian infrastructure statistics—Yearbook 2015 and Key Australian infrastructure statistics booklet 2015

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The 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.