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National Freight Data
Freight Measurement and Modelling in Australia
Freight Measurement and Modelling in Australia aims to summarise the existing state of knowledge on freight in Australia and to present the time series data, analysis and sources which underpin the BTRE's long term freight forecasts. Consistently measured time series data are required to model... -
National Freight Data
Road and Rail Freight: Competitors or Complements?
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... -
National Freight Data
Trends in Trucks and Traffic
Increasingly in Australia, trucking is an essential feature of economic activity, with road being the only mode possible for much freight traffic (eg in cities), and with rail tending to be less competitive than road on many intercity links. -
Road Safety Data
Road Deaths in Australia 1925-2008
This information sheet contains a historical overview of road death statistics in Australia from 1925, when road deaths were first recorded, to 2008 -
National Freight Data
Estimates of Freight Travelling to and from Sydney along the Hume and Pacific Hi...
This Paper presents the final results from a BTE survey of trucks passing through checking stations located on the Hume and Pacific Highways in NSW at Marulan and Berowra respectively. The aim of the survey was to obtain information on the quantity and nature of road freight travelling to and... -
National Freight Data
Why short-haul intermodal rail services succeed
The shipping container has revolutionised freight transport over the last half-century but its success is bringing challenges, not least in landside container movements. Port-induced road traffic congestion impacts on port arteries and communities and undermines port efficiency. Policymakers and... -
National Freight Data
Filling a gap in rail data: an investigation of the Gheringhap Loop train sighti...
This paper analyses train sightings data collected at Gheringhap, Victoria, located on the Melbourne to Adelaide main line. These sightings provide an independent source of information on train movements, train lengths, and reliability, and, given knowledge of freight volumes, can be used to... -
Road Safety Data
Cost of Road Crashes in Australia 2006
Road crashes impose large human and financial costs on society and substantial investments are made in infrastructure and safety programs to reduce road trauma. The cost of road crashes is important to the safety debate in Australia, and the unit values particularly for a fatality, injury or cost... -
National Freight Data
Modelling Responses of Urban Freight Patterns to Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scenar...
This paper presents the results of applying a policy model to simulate the effects on greenhouse gas emissions from trucking in Sydney of various abatement scenarios. These include vehicle efficiency scenarios, traffic efficiency scenarios and alternative infrastructure and land use scenarios.... -
National Freight Data
The Road Freight Transport Industry
Data and information on the road freight transport industry is in limited supply. In order to reduce this problem, the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics undertook this overview of the road freight transport industry. The industry is shown to be carrying an increasing proportion of... -
National Freight Data
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: Recommended Rates of Assistance for South...
This Report sets out recommended new rates of assistance to be paid under the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme TFES on eligible southbound cargoes and on northbound shipments of livestock and timber. -
National Freight Data
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: Recommended Northbound Assistance Rates a...
This report presents the recommended new rates of assistance calculated on the basis of the freight rates prevailing at the end of December 1977. The method of recalculation was based on that used by the Nimmo Commission although with some modifications. -
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Darwin and Northern Territory Freight Transport Study
The difficulties associated with defining and funding an acceptable transport system to serve the needs of Australians living in the Centre and North of the continent have proved a continuing area of concern to successive Commonwealth and State Governments. In this study an attempt has been made... -
Road Safety Data
Road Deaths In Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles—Quarterly Bulletin
Latest summaries of fatalities in road crashes in Australia involving heavy vehicles are presented here. Updates are quarterly and published around 7 weeks after the end of the reference quarter. Data are sourced from the road traffic or police authorities in each jurisdiction. Data are... -
Road Safety Data
Road Trauma Australia Statistical Summary
This report is the latest in the BITRE series of annual road crash statistical reports. It presents annual counts of road deaths, injuries and standardised rates. -
National Freight Data
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics Yearbook - 2021 to current
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. The publication is primarily a source of... -
National Freight Data
Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbooks 2007 - 2020
The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry leaders, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. The publication is primarily a source of long-term,... -
Road Safety Data
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... -
Road Safety Data
Social Cost of Road Crashes - BITRE Final Report (Sep 2022)
The Australian National University (ANU) was engaged by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) to develop a model to estimate the social cost of road crashes in Australia. The current study replicates and extends the previous BITRE costing study (BITRE, 2009) by... -
Road Safety Data
Pedestrians and Road Safety
This information sheet details how pedestrians comprise of the largest single road user group because almost everyone is a pedestrian at some point. People walk for leisure, to go work, school or local shops, and to access other modes of transport. In Australia, there has been a consistent...