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Oceania > Australia > Transportation

AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 388,700 [10th of 155]
Airports 461 Time series [16th of 247]
Cars 485 per 1,000 people [5th of 18]
Container port traffic 4,830,254 TEU Time series [18th of 63]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Left side
Heliports 1 Time series [81st of 99]
Highways > Paved 314,090 km Time series [6th of 113]
Highways > Total 811,603 km Time series [3rd of 118]
Motor vehicles 619 motor vehicles per 100 p [4th of 134]
Pipelines
condensate/gas 469 km; gas 26,719 km; liquid petroleum gas 240 km; oil 3,720 km; oil/gas/water 110 km
Ports and harbors
Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Devonport (Tasmania), Fremantle, Geelong, Hobart (Tasmania), Launceston (Tasmania), Mackay, Melbourne, Sydney, Townsville
Ports and terminals
Brisbane, Dampier, Fremantle, Gladstone, Hay Point, Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Hedland, Port Kembla, Port Walcott, Sydney
Railways > Total 38,550 km Time series [6th of 220]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 152,777 million ton-km Time series [9th of 52]
Roads, total network > km 810,200 km Time series [5th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 341,448 km Time series [7th of 81]
Roadways > Total 812,972 km Time series [6th of 85]
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns 50-6015
Vehicle abundance 47.91 per square km [17th of 141]
Waterways 2,000 km Time series [22nd of 165]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002 (CD ROM); World Development Indicators database; World standards on users.pandora.be; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wikipedia: Speed limit ; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Australia, Commonwealth of Australia

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