Traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian capital cities
The avoidable cost of congestion for the Australian capital cities is estimated to be around $16.5 billion for the 2015 financial year, having grown from about $12.8 billion for 2010. BITRE 'business-as-usual' projections of these costs of metropolitan congestion rise to around $30 billion by 2030–with the various modelling scenarios conducted giving aggregate 2030 results of between $27.7 and $37.3 billion, depending upon the chosen assumptions.
- Traffic and congestion cost trends for Australian capital cities
- VKT and Summary Cost Data
Australia's commuting distance: cities and regions
The 2011 average commuting distances reflect recent evidence on commuting from home to a place of work at a range of spatial classifications or localities. The main interest is in understanding the patterns and average commuting distances under current land use and availability of transport infrastructure.
- Australia's commuting distance: cities and regions
Transport infrastructure and land value uplift
Users of the transport network are not its only beneficiaries. Land owners can also gain as increased value flows along the network are capitalised into land. Value uplift financing attempts to capture a portion of this by levying the landholders in the catchment areas of new infrastructure. The main problem with this system is that is very difficult to localise benefits in a network. This has led some to propose a broad based land tax instead.
- Transport infrastructure and land value uplift
Changes in Australia's industry structure: cities and regions, 2006–2011
This Information Sheet identifies recent trends (2006 to 2011) in employment by various industries for regional areas, capital cities and non-capital cities. It updates BITRE's previous Information Sheet 32, which focused on employment changes between 2001 and 2006. The information presented in this publication will assist regional communities (including local government and RDAs) to understand how their regions are changing, and help regions map out where their opportunities and challenges might lie.
- Changes in Australia's industry structure: cities and regions, 2006–2011
International trade and cities: what house prices say
The relationship between changes in the value and direction of trade and house prices are examined for Ireland, Britain, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. It finds a strong relationship between trade patterns and locational value. Australia is examined at a continental scale. As Australias trade is steadily more focused on Asia, the values of those cities located in the north and west have risen faster than the rest.
- International trade and cities: what house prices say
International trade and Australian cities: what house prices say
Information Sheet 67 opens with a brief discussion on recent insights into Australian international trade, particularly ways to better measure its real value. It then looks at the changes in the value of international trade flowing through individual sea and airports. Changes in locational value from 1992–2014 are then presented for each city. The relationship between trade patterns and locational values are then tested mathematically.
- International trade and Australian cities: what house prices say
Australian infrastructure statistics—Yearbook 2014 and key Australian infrastructure statistics booklet
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.
- Yearbook 2014–Australian Infrastructure Statistics
- Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics
Yearbook 2014
Part I–Infrastructure and the Economy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics
Yearbook 2014
Part T–Transport
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics
Yearbook 2014
Part E–Energy
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics
Yearbook 2014
Part C–Communication
- Australian Infrastructure Statistics
Yearbook 2014
Part W–Water
Major transport employment hubs
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
National profile of Transport, postal and warehousing workers
This study aims to improve understanding of the current characteristics of the Transport, postal and warehousing (TPW) workforce and how the workforce is evolving over time. It provides details of the sub-industries in which TPW workers are employed, their hours worked, gender, age, occupation, educational qualifications, income and commuting behaviour. It also describes some of the key changes that occurred between 2006 and 2011, such as the ageing and upskilling of the TPW workforce.
- National profile of Transport, postal and warehousing workers
Ports: job generation in the context of regional development
This paper presents recent evidence on jobs at Australian ports, based on ABS Census of Population and Housing data. It examines 17 major ports that are of national economic significance, based on the level of activity as measured by ship visits, throughput and the value of trade. It presents the number of jobs located at port precinct, the industry structure, median age, educational qualifications and skill mix of that employment.
- Ports: job generation in the context of regional development