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National Freight Data
Freight vehicle congestion in Australia’s five major cities
This annual series uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles on selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities—Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The selected routes comprise the major motorways, highways and... -
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Freight route performance under COVID-19
This Information Sheet provides estimates of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on freight vehicle travel times for selected routes in Australian major cities in early 2020. The results show that whilst there was no significant change in freight vehicle traffic volumes over that period, freight... -
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Regional port catchments for road freight
This Information Sheet uses freight vehicle telematics data to illustrate the freight catchment areas of Australia’s five mainland capital city ports. The report includes maps showing a sample of private freight vehicle movements, comprising several hundred thousand journeys, to and from each... -
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Progress in Australian Regions Yearbook 2018
The Progress in Australian Regions–Yearbook is a statistical resource that measures progress in a region against social, economic, environmental and governance indicators. The Yearbook brings together information about Australia's regions from a range of different sources and presents that data... -
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Progress in Australian Regions Yearbook 2017
The Progress in Australian Regions–Yearbook is a statistical resource that measures progress in a region against social, economic, environmental and governance indicators. The Yearbook brings together information about Australia's regions from a range of different sources and presents that data... -
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International Airline Activity—Monthly Publications
These reports cover monthly international aircraft, passenger, freight and mail movements, flights, available seats, seat load factors and airline market shares. Details are provided for airline, country, city pair and airport. -
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Voyage Reports
Coastal trading is the movement of cargo or passengers on ships between ports in different states and territories in Australia in connection with a commercial activity. Coastal trading in Australia is regulated by the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 (Coastal Trading Act). -
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Domestic Cargo data
Domestic Cargo data for top 5 airports from 2010. The cargo statistics, published from January 2010, include cargo carried on scheduled passenger flights as well as the cargo carried by dedicated freighter operators. Airport cargo tonnes are the sum of cargo tonnes on arrivals and departures at... -
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ABS data for International Merchandise Trade
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) International Merchandise Trade data is valuable for understanding import and export commodities passing through Australia’s ports and airports. It contains detailed records of commodity information by tonnes and value, port of departure, port of arrival,... -
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Containerised and non-containerised trade through Australian ports to 2032–33
This report presents 20-year forecasts of exports and imports of containerised and non-containerised freight and sea passenger movements through Australia's five largest capital city ports and, in aggregation, all other ports. The forecasts, which update those previously published by BITRE in... -
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Understanding Australia's urban railways
Understanding Australia's Urban Railways provides an overview of the urban passenger and freight railways in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. For passenger rail, the report explores service provision; patronage trends; recent and planned network expansion; and the key challenges... -
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International Airline Activity—Time Series
These files contain international time series data covering passenger, freight and mail movements, flights, available seats and seat load factors. Details are provided for airline, country and city pair. -
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Australian road freight estimates: 2014 update
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. -
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A dozen facts about transport in Australia
This information sheet covers a wide range of subjects, including commuting, freight, rail, energy and safety. -
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Australian road freight estimates: 2016 update
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. -
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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... -
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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...