Paper presented to European Conference of Ministers of Transport "Workshop on Competitive Tendering for Rail Services" held in Paris on 12 January 2006. Paper to be published in forthcoming ECMT Workshop Proceedings. Author: Peter Kain.

• The pitfalls in competitive tendering: addressing the risks revealed by experience in Australia and Britain
  
  sp_002_pittfalls_in_competitve_tendering.pdf
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Australian Transport Statistics provides a short summary of a diverse range of transport statistics. Topics include employment, GDP, passenger and freight movements, trade, funding, motor vehicles, fatalities and estimated greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the transport industry. Information is provided for the road, rail, maritime and aviation sectors. Data are gathered from various sources both within BTRE and external organisations.

• Australian Transport Statistics Yearbook 2007
  
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• Australian Transport Statistics Yearbook 2007–Spreadsheets
  
  
  stats_018.zip
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Australian Transport Statistics provides a short summary of a diverse range of transport statistics. Topics include employment, GDP, passenger and freight movements, trade, funding, motor vehicles, fatalities and estimated greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the transport industry.

This Information Sheet provides indexed trends in average interstate non-bulk freight rates, from 1964–65 to 2007–08, updating the freight rate indexes previously published in Freight Rates in Australia, Information Sheet 19 (BTRE 2002). The estimates show that, following generally declining real freight rates over the previous two decades, real freight rates for road, rail and long-distance coastal shipping have risen since 2000–01 (Table 1 provides nominal and real indexed freight rate series and Figures 1 to 4 illustrate indexed trends in real freight rates). Recent increases in crude oil prices, and flow through to diesel fuel prices, have been an important contributing factor in recent freight rate increases for road, rail and coastal shipping.

• Freight Rates in Australia 1964–65 to 2007–08
  
  is_028.pdf
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Up until the early 1960s, railways dominated all but the shortest land-based freight task. Since then, vast improvements in road vehicle productivity and road infrastructure quality, the gradual removal of regulations restricting road freight carriage and the exponential growth in interstate trade has broadened the range of freight tasks for which road is better suited than rail.

Australian Transport Statistics provides a short summary of a diverse range of transport statistics. Topics include employment, GDP, infrastructure expenditure, passenger and freight movements, trade, motor vehicles, fatalities and estimated greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the transport industry. Information is provided for the road, rail, maritime and aviation sectors. Data are gathered from various sources both within BITRE and external organisations.

• Australian transport statistics Yearbook 2009
  
  stats_001.pdf
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• Australian transport statistics Yearbook 2009–Spreadsheets
  
  
  stats_001.zip
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This statistical report is the third in this series and is a result of collaboration between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).

• Rail Freight Performance Indicators 2007–08–Statistical Report
  
  stats_004.pdf
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This paper discusses high-speed train services. The paper sets out what is meant by 'high-speed', explains the objective of introducing services and sets out where they have been introduced. The paper also considers funding experiences and Australian high-speed train proposals.

• Brief–A profile of high-speed railways
  
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This report provides estimates and forecasts of interstate freight moving between 56 state-to-state origin-destination pairs, for example, South Australia-Queensland.

• Interstate freight in Australia
  
  report_120.pdf
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The Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011 provides a single comprehensive source of Australian infrastructure statistics time series statistics for measures of transport, energy, communications and water infrastructure and the use of this infrastructure in Australia.

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011 Tables 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011
  Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011
  Part T–Transport 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011
  Part E–Energy 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011
  Part C–Communication 

• Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2011
  Part W–Water