Introduction
Which are the key means of transportation in Australia? Australia has transport systems like Rail, Air, Pipeline, etc, with Waterways of about 2,000 km (2011) (mainly used for recreation on Murray and Murray-Darling River systems). The Civil aircraft registration country code prefix is VH
Transportation in Australia
| Number of Airports | 2,180 (2024) |
|---|---|
| Heliports | 368 (2024) |
| Pipelines | 637 km condensate/gas, 30,054 km gas, 240 km liquid petroleum gas, 3,609 km oil, 110 km oil/gas/water, 72 km refined products (2013) |
| Railways | |
| Total | 32,606 km (2022) 3,448 km electrified |
| Standard gauge | 18,007 km (2022) 1.435 mm |
| Narrow gauge | 11,914 km (2022) 1.067 mm |
| Broad gauge | 2,685 km (2022) 1.600 mm |
| Roadways | |
| Total | 873,573 km |
| Urban | 145,928 km |
| Non-urban | 727,645 km (2015) |
| National air transport system | |
| Number of registered air carriers | 25 (2020) |
| Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers | 583 |
| Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers | 75,667,645 (2018) |
| Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers | 2,027,640,000 (2018) mt-km |
| Merchant marine | |
| Total | 604 (2023) |
| By type | bulk carrier 2, general cargo 76, oil tanker 6, other 520 |
All Important Facts about Australia
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