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PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Buses

The Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network (ACTION) is the main provider of passenger transport in the ACT and has been in operation since 1977. ACTION became a statutory authority on 1 January 2002 and provides:

• passenger bus network and school services, with a range of express and route services to and from all suburbs
• a special needs transport service - a door-to-door service for disadvantaged people in the community
• charter bus services.

• a bus fleet of 387 buses (369 passenger buses and 18 special needs buses), including 85 disability accessible buses
• depots and workshops (located in Tuggeranong and Belconnen)
• four bus interchanges (located at Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Civic and Woden)
• ACTION Authority's head office at Tuggeranong.

14.6 ACTION bus service, Selected statistics - ACT
Operating statistics		2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	Change 2004-05 to 2005-06
Passenger boardings	'000	16 305	16 240	16 928	688
Bus kilometres	'000	22 988	23 339	23 450	111
Buses in fleet	no.	388	391	387	-4
Employees (full-time equivalent)	no.	677	700	712	12
ACTION Authority Annual Report, 2004-05 and 2005-06.

Taxis

Taxi dispatch services in the ACT are provided by Canberra Cabs (with a fleet of 134 taxis), Elite Taxis (Canberra) (with a fleet of 82 taxis), and Cabxpress (with a fleet of 21 taxis). Almost all of these taxis are independently owned and operated, and compete for hirings throughout the ACT. Additionally, Canberra Cabs operates 4 wheelchair accessible taxis, while Cabxpress operates 14 wheelchair accessible taxis.

A cross-border arrangement for the provision of taxi services exists between the ACT and NSW Governments. This arrangement enables Canberra and Queanbeyan taxis to operate freely within the region. Queanbeyan has a fleet of 16 taxis.

Coach and rail services

The numbers of rail and coach passengers into and out of Canberra decreased between 2005 and 2006, following increases between 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, 44,942 passengers boarded trains leaving Canberra, a decrease of 11% from 2005 (50,331 passengers). There were also 47,506 passengers arriving by rail into Canberra during 2006, a 9% decrease on 2005 (52,438 passengers).

For coach passengers in 2006, 19,027 passengers arrived in Canberra and 18,934 passengers departed. These numbers represent decreases of 12% and 13% respectively when compared with the coach arrivals and departures for 2005.

14.7 Coach and rail passengers, Origin or destination Canberra
		2004	2005	2006	Change 2005-06
		no.	no.	no.	% change
Origin Canberra
	Rail passengers	47 642	50 331	44 942	-10.7
	Coach passengers	20 699	21 723	18 934	-12.8
Destination Canberra
	Rail passengers	49 679	52 438	47 506	-9.4
	Coach passengers	20 401	21 718	19 027	-12.4
CountryLink, State Rail NSW, Data available on request.

Domestic and regional aircraft travel

Airline services into and out of the ACT are classified as either 'domestic' or 'regional' services. The domestic airlines are those performing Regular Public Transport (RPT) services primarily between capital cities and major tourist centres within Australia. The regional airlines are those performing RPT services primarily to regional centres within Australia.

The number of fare-paying (revenue) passengers for both domestic and regional travel (i.e. total traffic) through Canberra International Airport increased by 3% from 2004-05 to 2005-06. The number of domestic revenue passengers increased by 3% (an increase of 57,144 passengers), as did the number of regional revenue passengers (an increase of 16,276 passengers).

14.8 Regular passenger transport services, Revenue passengers - ACT
	Domestic			Regional			Total traffic
	In	Out	Total	In	Out	Total	In	Out	Total
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
2000-01	640 915	648 030	1 288 945	410 396	407 878	818 274	1 051 311	1 055 908	2 107 219
2001-02	478 545	483 775	962 320	441 134	437 848	878 982	919 679	921 623	1 841 302
2002-03	659 527	653 615	1 313 142	301 034	302 175	603 209	960 561	955 790	1 916 351
2003-04	900 367	892 305	1 792 672	251 648	259 102	510 750	1 152 015	1 151 407	2 303 422
2004-05	981 742	972 766	1 954 508	255 671	266 530	522 201	1 237 413	1 239 296	2 476 709
2005-06	1 008 934	1 002 718	2 011 652	265 580	272 897	538 477	1 274 514	1 275 615	2 550 129
Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, Aviation Statistics, Airport Traffic Data, 1995-96 to 2005-06.

Total passenger aircraft movements into and out of Canberra International Airport decreased slightly - by less than 1% - between 2004-05 and 2005-06. Decreases of less than 1% were recorded in both regional aircraft movements and domestic aircraft movements between 2004-05 and 2005-06.

14.9 Regular passenger transport services, Aircraft movements - ACT
	Domestic			Regional			Total traffic
	In	Out	Total	In	Out	Total	In	Out	Total
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
2000-01	8 378	8 376	16 754	17 484	17 629	35 113	25 862	26 005	51 867
2001-02	5 455	5 446	10 901	14 403	14 412	28 815	19 858	19 858	39 716
2002-03	7 668	7 665	15 333	10 344	10 309	20 653	18 012	17 974	35 986
2003-04	9 522	9 516	19 038	9 676	9 651	19 327	19 198	19 167	38 365
2004-05	9 491	9 477	18 968	8 940	8 938	17 878	18 431	18 415	36 846
2005-06	9 461	9 438	18 899	8 934	8 930	17 864	18 395	18 368	36 763
Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, Aviation Statistics, Airport Traffic Data, 1995-96 to 2005-06.