TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT

Registered motor vehicles

There were 15.7 million motor vehicles (excluding tractors, plant and equipment, caravans and trailers) registered in Australia at 31 March 2009 (table 24.27). Almost eight out of every ten vehicles are passenger vehicles. New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland are the states with the largest number of vehicles with 29%, 26% and 21% of the total vehicle fleet respectively.

24.27 REGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLES - 31 March 2009
			Trucks
	Passenger vehicles(a)	Light commercial vehicles	Rigid	Articulated	Non-freight carrying	Buses	Motor cycles	Total(b)
	’000	’000	’000	’000	’000	’000	’000	’000
New South Wales	3 612	631	119	17	4	22	163	4 567
Victoria	3 189	526	99	24	6	18	148	4 010
Queensland	2 373	617	99	18	5	19	152	3 283
South Australia	963	159	28	7	2	5	45	1 209
Western Australia	1 353	300	59	12	4	13	87	1 828
Tasmania	290	82	11	2	1	2	13	401
Northern Territory	81	33	4	1	-	3	5	129
Australian Capital Territory	209	23	2	-	-	1	11	247
Australia	12 070	2 371	422	81	22	84	624	15 674
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Includes campervans.
(b) Excludes tractors, plant and equipment, caravans and trailers.
Source: ABS Motor Vehicle Census, Australia (9309.0).

The average age of the Australian motor vehicle fleet at 31 March 2009 was 10 years (table 24.28). Tasmania recorded the highest average age (12 years) while New South Wales, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory recorded the lowest average age (9 years). Of the different vehicle types, campervans had the oldest average age (18 years), while motorcycles recorded the lowest (9 years).

24.28 ESTIMATED AVERAGE AGE OF THE VEHICLE FLEET(a) - 31 March 2009
	state/territory of registration
Type of vehicle	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Passenger vehicles	9.2	10.1	9.3	10.9	9.7	11.5	8.6	9.4	9.7
Campervans	16.7	18.0	14.8	21.7	21.4	20.5	20.2	19.8	18.1
Light commercial vehicles	10.1	11.2	9.8	11.2	10.5	12.6	8.9	9.6	10.4
Light rigid trucks	10.8	11.2	10.2	11.5	11.3	15.3	10.0	10.3	10.9
Heavy rigid trucks	14.0	17.1	13.7	16.7	17.1	16.7	12.6	10.9	15.4
Articulated trucks	10.0	11.2	10.2	10.7	11.7	9.4	12.1	8.4	10.7
Non-freight carrying trucks	12.5	15.6	10.6	15.0	15.8	15.8	13.9	13.0	13.9
Buses	11.3	11.4	10.1	11.8	10.9	14.9	8.4	11.3	11.0
Motor cycles	8.4	9.0	8.2	(b)8.3	9.8	10.0	6.7	8.5	8.7
Total	9.4	10.4	9.5	11.0	10.1	11.9	8.8	9.4	9.9
(a) Excludes plant and equipment, caravans and trailers.
(b) Year of manufacture is not well reported for South Australian motor cycles.
Source: ABS Motor Vehicle Census, Australia (9309.0).

The number of motor vehicles registered at 31 March 2009 represents 720 registrations per 1,000 people (graph 24.29). In 2009, the rate was highest for Western Australia - 822 registrations per 1,000 people.

24.30 AUSTRALIAN TRADING FLEET - 30 June
		2005	2006	2007	2008
Ships	no.	107	105	96	94
Deadweight(a)	'000 tonnes	3 315	3 041	3 032	2 681
Gross tonnage(b)	'000 tonnes	2 472	2 369	2 311	2 142
(a) Weight that a vessel can carry, including cargo, bunkers, water and stores.
(b) Measure of the internal capacity of a ship (in tonnes) that is available within the hull and enclosed spaces for cargo, stores, passenger and crew.
Source: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics.

Shipping fleet

The Australian trading fleet consists of cargo vessels owned and/or operated by Australian companies to and from Australia. The fleet includes vessels that carry cargo and passengers, but does not include vessels that carry passengers only. This fleet decreased from 107 ships in 2005 to 94 ships in 2008 (table 24.30). Deadweight tonnes has fallen from 3.3 million tonnes in 2005 to 2.7 million tonnes in 2008. Gross tonnage fell from 2.5 million tonnes in 2005 to 2.1 million tonnes in 2008.


Aircraft fleet

There were 13,459 aircraft in the Australian Civil Aircraft Register at 31 December 2008, including 10,364 aeroplanes, 1,619 helicopters and 338 balloons (graph 24.31).

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