This paper analyses road traffic crashes involving heavy trucks, highlighting characteristics such as severity, location, temporarily and type of crash.

This Information Sheet presents the quarterly road construction and maintenance price index for the year 2014–15.

The avoidable cost of congestion for the Australian capital cities is estimated to be around $16.5 billion for the 2015 financial year, having grown from about $12.8 billion for 2010.

The 2011 average commuting distances reflect recent evidence on commuting from home to a place of work at a range of spatial classifications or localities.

In this paper, several sources of bicycle crash data and exposure data are used to provide an overview of cycling safety and data sources in Australia. Recent trends are identified.

Users of the transport network are not its only beneficiaries. Land owners can also gain as increased value flows along the network are capitalised into land.

Pedestrians comprise the largest single road user group because almost everyone is a pedestrian at some point. People walk for leisure, to go to work, school or local shops, and to access other modes of transport.

This Information Sheet presents estimates of the impact of airbags and electronic stability control (ESC) on fatalities in light vehicle crashes.

This Information Sheet identifies recent trends (2006 to 2011) in employment by various industries for regional areas, capital cities and non-capital cities.

The relationship between changes in the value and direction of trade and house prices are examined for Ireland, Britain, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. It finds a strong relationship between trade patterns and locational value.