This information sheet provides a summary of key trends in regional aviation Australia from 1984 to 2012. It is a brief update to Report 130 on Air transport services in regional Australia (2011 update).

This report updates and supersedes the time series statistics presented in Report 115 and Information sheet 35 on Air transport services in regional Australia: trends and access.

Paper given to the 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 28–30 September 2011, Adelaide. Authors: Hema de Silva, Leanne Johnson, Karen Wade.

The rapid development of mining in the Pilbara region of north west Australia has already increased the transport task in the region and is expected to increase it much more.

The difficulties associated with defining and funding an acceptable transport system to serve the needs of Australians living in the Centre and North of the continent have proved a continuing area of concern to successive Commonwealth and State Go

In March 1982 the Northern Transport Study Committee presented a submission to the Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) on the inadequacies of the transport system serving the Gwydir and Macintyre River Valleys, commonly referred to as the north-we

This Paper presents a demand analysis of New South Wales regional and commuter intrastate air services.

This Report describes a case study of capacity of regional transport infrastructure to meet current and future demands of industry.

Concerns have been expressed that the introduction of a national system of road user charging for heavy vehicles could adversely affect transport operators, consumers and producers in rural and remote areas of Australia.

BTCE selected the Berrima and Mittagong bypasses as the first in a series of case studies which are examining the regional development effects of infrastructure investment, and assessing whether significant economic growth benefits are omitted fro