Road
Chapter 6
This chapter provides the following information on Australian roads: road distances, road length in kilometres, licence registration transactions over different vehicle types, electric vehicles attributes and registration transactions.
A variety of sources are used for this data, including data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), VFACTS, BITRE estimates and State and Territory Governments.
- Australia's total estimated paved road length was 463,000 kilometres in 2023.
- An estimated 260 billion vehicle kilometres were travelled on Australia's roads in 2023–24.
- In 2023–24, Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) comprised 56% of new motor vehicle sales (excluding motor cycles) compared with only 30% 10 years earlier.
- In 2023, there were 87 thousand fully electric vehicle sales in Australia, up from 33 thousand the previous year.
Figure 13 shows the sale of registered battery electric vehicles and Plug-in Hybrids over time. Fully battery electric vehicles sales increased by 161 per cent between 2022 and 2023.
Figure 14 shows Australia's national road network.
Figure 13 Sales of electric vehicles
Figure 14 Map of national road network
