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National Freight Data
Freight vehicle congestion in Australia’s five major cities – 2022
This publication is the fourth in an annual series that uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles for selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities—Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The selected routes... -
National Freight Data
Freight vehicle congestion in Australia’s five major cities – 2021
This publication is the third in the series that uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles for selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities—Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The selected routes comprise the... -
Road Safety Data
BITRE Road Vehicles
Provides statistics relating to the number of vehicles registered for road use in Australia on 31st January 2023. The statistics have been derived from state and territory motor vehicle registry data. This release replaces the ABS Motor Vehicle Census, which was discontinued in 2021. -
National Freight Data
Vehicle Speed and Congestion Data
Data collected under BITRE’s vehicle telematics collection has been used to derive measures of median speed, which can be employed as an indicative measure of traffic congestion for freight vehicles. It should be noted that currently heavy vehicles in the telematics dataset are small compared... -
National Freight Data
Freight vehicle congestion in Australia’s five major cities – 2020
This publication is the second in a planned regular series that uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles on 53 selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities—Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The selected... -
Road Safety Data
Road Deaths Australia—Monthly Bulletins
Latest summaries of road crash deaths and fatal road crashes are presented here. Updates are monthly and published on BITRE's website on or around the 14th of each month. Data are sourced from the road traffic or police authorities in each jurisdiction. Data are preliminary and subject to revision. -
National Freight Data
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... -
National Freight Data
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... -
National Freight Data
Freight vehicle congestion in Australia’s five major cities - 2019
This publication is the first of a planned annual series that uses vehicle telematics data to provide measures of traffic congestion for freight vehicles on 53 selected routes across Australia’s five mainland state capital cities—Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The selected... -
National Freight Data
Road Construction Cost
This report benchmarks the costs of road construction and the timeliness of infrastructure procurement processes for projects undertaken by states and territories since 2015. -
Road Safety Data
Run-off Road Crashes in Australia, 2016-2020
This information sheet provides descriptive analysis of run-off road (RoR) crashes and compares these with other types of crashes in Australia. -
National Freight Data
Interstate freight in Australia
his report provides estimates and forecasts of interstate freight moving between 56 state-to-state origin-destination pairs, for example, South Australia-Queensland. -
National Freight Data
External Costs of Inter-Capital Freight in Australia
Paper given to the 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, 29 September–1 October 2010, Canberra. Author: Jack McAuley. -
Road Safety Data
Archived Road Deaths In Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles—Quarterly Bulletins
Archived Road Deaths In Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles—Quarterly Bulletins -
Road Safety Data
Road Safety Enforcement Data
The road safety enforcement data provides summary series of road safety enforcement activities undertaken across the Australian states and territories from 2008-2022. The road safety enforcement data series is provided annually by state and territory police agencies and state revenue offices to... -
National Freight Data
Road Freight Estimates by State/Territory
Paper given to the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 October–3 October 2008, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain -
National Freight Data
Interstate Freight on States Roads
Paper given to the 29th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 27–29 September 2006, Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain and David Cosgrove. -
National Freight Data
National road network intercity traffic projections to 2030
This report provides long-term passenger and freight vehicle traffic projections for intercity corridors of the National Land Transport Network (NLTN) between 2005 and 2030. -
National Freight Data
COAG urban congestion review
COAG commissioned the Review in February 2006 with a focus on national freight corridors but also examining local networks where they interact with, and impact on, these corridors. The Review report was prepared by a working group of representatives from the Department of Transport and Regional... -
National Freight Data
Freight rates and competitiveness
Paper given to the Grains West Expo 2005 at Scarborough Beach WA, 19–20 July by David Gargett, Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics.