Looking at Australasian transport and cities through graphs and maps
I ve recently completed my big annual refresh of the Trends pages on Charting Transport (accessible from the Trends menu above). Here is a quick scan of some headline trends, plus a few new interesting charts. Most of these updates use data from the BITRE Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2025 released in December. (The other [ ]
In my last post on this topic, I asked the question: who drives to work in major Australian city CBDs? This post will now look at where these drivers came from, and more specifically which parts of each city produced disproportionately large volumes of CBD drivers at high mode shares. I ll also explore why some [ ]
In the last few months I ve been updating the Trends pages on Charting Transport with new data from BITRE, ABS, and other sources. This post provides summary charts across numerous aspects of transport with links for further detail. The charts below are current at the time of this post, but I will be updating the [ ]
Central Business District (CBD) generally have expensive car parking, congested radial roads, and public transport that is usually frequent, direct, and often fast. CBDs in larger cities are naturally strong markets for public transport. Yet around three hundred thousand Australians drove to work in CBDs of Australian cities in 2016. Who are these people, and [ ]
It s now much easier to find the latest key transport and city trends on Charting Transport. A new Trends menu item links to 13+ pages covering a range of key transport and city-related metrics (for Australia and sometimes also New Zealand). The pages cover passenger and freight mode shares, public transport patronage, city density, car [ ]
Australia is just starting to shift toward electric vehicles. How much of the fleet has shifted, and which vehicle types and geographies are shifting the fastest? This post draws on BITRE data of registered road vehicles (collected at the end of January each year). At the time of writing data was available for 2021 to [ ]
A lot of published transport analysis including on this blog has been gender-blind. Yet there are quite significant differences in travel patterns between men and women, and also between parents and non-parents. Advances in equality of opportunity have not eliminated these differences. This post goes all-in with disaggregating a wide range of available [ ]
I ve been exploring why younger adults are more likely to use public transport, looking at data sets available for Melbourne. This fourth post in the series looks at the relationship between public transport mode share and income, socio-economic advantage/disadvantage, occupation, hours worked per week, and whether people are studying. It concludes with a summary of [ ]
[Updated 29 March 2024: Capital city per-capita charts updated using estimated residential population data for June 2023] What s the latest data telling us about transport trends in Australia? The Australian Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) have recently published their annual yearbook full of numbers, and this post aims to turn those (plus [ ]
Having previously analysed commuting distances in Melbourne and Victoria, this post turns attention to other Australian cities. I ll answer questions such as: Where are there longer commutes? What might explain differences in commute distances? How long are commutes in outer urban growth areas in different cities? I m using ABS calculated on-road distances between homes and [ ]