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Economic Contribution of Transport in Australia, 2020-21

This release provides a short summary and highlights of the ABS Australian Transport Economic Accounts 2020-21.

Release date: 31 October 2023

Infrastructure and Transport PPPs and Privatisation in Australia

This information sheet provides a list of infrastructure and transport-related Public Private Partnerships and privatisations in Australia since 1980. To the Bureau of Infrastructure Transport and Regional Economics' (B…

Release date: 2 August 2017

Submission to the Productivity Commission Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing Inquiry

The submission commences with a brief general discussion of the economics of road and rail infrastructure and some implications for pricing; examines the relationship between estimates of road infrastructure costs attri…

Release date: 2 August 2006

Rail Infrastructure Pricing: Principles and Practice

Since the early 1990s, railway operations in Australia and in many overseas countries have been radically reformed. One reform has been widespread outsourcing of railway activities such as infrastructure maintenance, to…

Release date: 2 July 2003

Land Transport Infrastructure Pricing: An Introduction

The BTRE projects that the total freight task will continue to grow strongly. Such growth will increase the infrastructure maintenance needs and possibly hasten the need for capacity expansion. Setting prices for infras…

Release date: 2 June 2003

Infrastructure Construction Dashboard

The transport infrastructure construction dashboard shows costs for projects that are underway or completed according to whether they are owned privately or publicly.