This Information Sheet identifies the 33 largest spatial concentrations of transport industry employment within Australia. These major transport employment hubs are all located within the five most populous capital cities and include airports, ports, CBDs and a range of industrial areas. This study presents evidence on the number of jobs located in each of these transport employment hubs, the industry mix of those jobs, and the characteristics of workers in each location. In particular, it focuses on investigating the nature of employment in the industrial area hubs, many of which serve important freight and logistics functions.

• Major transport employment hubs
  
  is_058.pdf
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Trainline 2 is a collaborative report between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and BITRE. It is a further development of the previous rail freight performance publications series and Trainline 1.

The report provides an overview of freight, urban and non-urban passenger rail. Traffic levels; infrastructure and rolling stock provision; and railway performance are considered.

• Trainline 2 

This information sheet provides updated road freight estimates previously reported in Chapter 2 of BITRE Research Report 121. It gives estimates for interstate, intrastate, capital city and total road freight for each state/territory for the period between 1971–72 and 2012–13.

• Australian road freight estimates: 2014 update
  
  is_062.pdf
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This is the latest in a series of BITRE reports that presents statistics on maritime freight in Australia and shows the trend of Australian sea freight over the most recent ten years. The information presented comprises international and coastal freight statistics, the use of coastal voyage permits, vessel activity at Australian ports, and the size and composition of the Australian trading fleet from 2003-04 to 2012-13.

This information sheet reviews trends in Australian productivity with a focus on the transport sector.

Well targeted investments in transport infrastructure result in productivity increases that benefit many other industries. The paper provides for specific examples that cover trucks, freight, waterfront and rail productivity enhancements.

• Infrastructure, transport and productivity
  
  is_055.pdf
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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 1 (this issue) provides a broad overview of freight movements in Australia, highlighting some of the major commodity flows.

• Freightline 1–Australia freight transport overview
  
  Freightline_01.pdf
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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 2 (this issue) focusses on Australian iron ore transport supply chains and freight movements in 2011–12.

• Freightline 2–Australia iron ore freight transport
  
  Freightline_02.pdf
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The Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme operates according to Ministerial Directions (2012) using parameters recommended by the TFES Review Authority (1998). The Tasmanian Wheat Freight Scheme operates under separate Ministerial Directions approved on 25 January 2006.

This information sheet provides an overview of activity in five key Australian infrastructure industries: transport, energy, communications, water and resources.

The purpose of the report is to track investment in infrastructure and explore its impact on infrastructure performance, usage and productivity.

• Infrastructure Investment Macromonitor
  
  is_052.pdf
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The Yearbook is an important piece of work for the Department and 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 first Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics booklet which is a summary of statistics from the Yearbook.

• Yearbook 2013–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  INFRA1886_R_BITRE_INFRASTRUCTURE_YEARBOOK_0813_web.pdf
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• Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  INFRA1915_BITRE_KEY_STATISTICS_0813_web.pdf
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• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2013
  
  Part 1–Infrastructure and the Economy
  
  PartI_Infrastructure_and_the_Economy.zip
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• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2013
  
  Part T–Transport
  
  PartT_Transport.zip
  (874.05 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2013
  
  Part E–Energy
  
  PartE_Energy.zip
  (481.12 KB)
• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2013
  
  Part C–Communication
  
  PartC_Communication.zip
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• Australian Infrastructure Statistics
  
  Yearbook 2013
  
  Part W–Water
  
  PartW_Water.zip
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