BTRE stats guide

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, this week released the Australian Transport Statistics 2008 pocket guide as part of the 8th Annual Transport Colloquium held in Canberra.

This pocket guide provides an up-to-date snapshot of the scope, scale and performance of the Australian transport sector.

The publication’s key findings include:

• Transport specific businesses contributed 4.63 per cent of total GDP in 2006/07. This amounts to $46.2 billion, an increase of nearly six per cent on 2005/06 – a significant contribution to our economy and national wellbeing;
• Employment in the transport sector was up six per cent to nearly half a million jobs in the twelve months to August 2007. This constituted 4.7 per cent of total employment.
• Road fatalities reached 1,616 or 93.6 per cent of total transport-related fatalities in 2007.
• This represented a decrease of 8.6 per cent compared with the fatality rate in 1997.

You can get a copy of the Australian Transport Statistics 2008 pocket guide here or by emailing the Department at media@infrastructure.gov.au