Australia Yearbook - 2001

Chapter 23—Transport 809
23.16 SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE TRAFFIC TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA(a)
—Year ended December
Passengers
Type of traffic 1998 1999
TRAFFIC TO AUSTRALIA
Qantas Airways Limited 2 599 464 2 646 876
Ansett Australia 291 464 259 737
Other airlines 4 262 586 4 633 922
All airlines 7 153 514 7 540 535
TRAFFIC FROM AUSTRALIA
Qantas Airways Limited 2 585 233 2 622 369
Ansett Australia 286 494 258 187
Other airlines 4 212 928 4 561 670
All airlines 7 084 655 7 442 226
(a) Australia and Norfolk Island.
Source: Department of Transport and Regional Services.
23.17 PASSENGER TRAFFIC THROUGH AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS—Year ended December
1996
1997
1998
1999
Airport
no. of passengers no. of passengers no. of passengers no. of passengers
Sydney 6 477 744 6 840 696 6 934 052 7 385 453
Melbourne 2 193 309 2 373 135 2 489 495 2 653 705
Brisbane 2 192 110 2 294 900 2 251 240 2 375 767
Perth 1 292 127 1 399 514 1 434 077 1 474 898
Cairns 719 396 745 110 688 058 660 659
Adelaide 205 863 208 890 223 035 241 014
Darwin 147 888 171 319 177 773 156 058
Coolangatte(a) 463 13 822 14 519 16 923
Norfolk Island 14 797 16 176 15 704 15 073
Port Hedland 1 536 3 209 4 398 2 969
Townsville(b) . . 240 416 242
Christmas Island(c) 14 513 3 895 2 712 . .
Hobart(c) 5 103 3 689 2 690 . .
Broome(d) 2 338 260 . . . .
Total 13 267 187 14 074 855 14 238 169 14 982 761
(a) International operations commenced in December 1996. (b) International operations ceased in February 1999. (c)
International operations ceased in April 1998. (d) International operations ceased in February 1997.
Source: Department of Transport and Regional Services.
Safety
An unwanted side effect of transport activity is
accidents, the costs of which include loss of life
or injury to persons, and destruction of and
damage to equipment and infrastructure.
Road traffic accidents involving
fatalities and injuries
Between 1994 and 1999 road fatalities declined in
New South Wales (by 10.7%), Queensland (by
25.8%), South Australia (by 5.0%) and Tasmania (by
10.2%), as shown in table 23.18. Overall, the
number of road fatalities dropped 8.9% in this
period. However, the number of fatalities has been
reasonably constant for Australia since 1997 (down
only 0.4% in the two years to 1999). In the 6 months
to June 2000 there were 896 fatalities—an increase
compared to the 876 fatalities in the 6 months to
June 1999 and 860 in the 6 months to June 1998.
Fatalities per 100,000 persons and per 10,000 motor
vehicles are highest by far in the Northern Territory
(25.4 per 100,000 persons and 6.8 per 10,000
vehicles), as shown by table 23.19. Not surprisingly,
the Northern Territory also has the highest rates of
road traffic accidents involving injury (173 per
100,000 persons and 33 per 10,000 vehicles in
1999), as shown in table 23.20. The Australian
Capital Territory had the lowest rates of fatalities
per 100,000 persons (6.1) and per 10,000 vehicles
(1.1). Victoria was next with 8.1 fatalities per 100,000
persons and 1.2 fatalities per 10,000 vehicles.
However, Victoria had 108 accidents involving injury
per 100,000 persons—a higher rate than the
Australian Capital Territory (56), Tasmania (75),
South Australia (82), New South Wales (95) and
Queensland (100).