Report on Performance
Transport outputs and programmes
- Overview
- Output 1.1.1 : Transport investigation
- Output 1.1.2 : Transport safety
- Output 1.2.1 : Transport security
- Output 1.3.1 : AusLink
- Output 1.4.1 : Maritime and land transport
- Output 1.4.2 : Aviation and airports
Overview
Australia's transport system is vast and directly employs 425,000 people-roughly one in 20 jobs. Each year our 180 largest airports handle 1 million flights and 54 million passengers, while 3,300 ships make 23,000 port calls at 70 ports.
With increasing globalisation, our nation's prosperity depends more than ever on Australia having a transport system that is secure and safe, nationally and internationally competitive, accessible and sustainable.
What we do
In 2005-06 the department contributed to the wellbeing of all Australians by fostering an efficient, sustainable, competitive, safe and secure transport system. Amongst other things, we delivered:
- advice to the Australian Government on issues ranging from national competition policy, industry productivity, international air services policy and airspace reform, through to technical standards for motor vehicles
- grants to state, territory and local governments and the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) towards 143 major road and rail construction projects and more than 5,000 smaller projects under AusLink (page 69)
- regulation of aviation and shipping with portfolio bodies including the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Airservices Australia, and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)
- support for the government's efforts to pursue cooperative international approaches to enhance aviation safety
- investigations into more than 100 transport safety accidents and incidents
- publication of approximately 32 transport safety research and statistical reports (page 48).
What this chapter covers
This chapter reports on the transport outputs and programmes the department was funded to deliver in 2004-05. See Table 3.1 for details. The chapter:
- sets out our annual financial and other targets, as published in our 2005-06 Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) or amended in the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) and Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement (PSAES)
- reports our actual results in 2004-05 and compares them with previous years' results where applicable
- discusses factors that may be affecting or are likely to affect the results
- summarises progress towards achievement of the indicators nominated for each output and programme using the following ratings:
fully achieved 
mostly achieved partly achieved not achieved
Table 3.1 Transport outputs and programmes in 2005-06
|
Budget 2005-06a $'000 |
Actual 2005-06 $'000 |
Varianceb (%) |
Rating |
Information |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Output 1.1.1-Investigation |
19,180 |
18,950 |
-1.2 |
|
|
|
Output 1.1.2-Safety |
15,240 |
17,230 |
13.1 |
|
|
|
Output 1.2.1-Transport Security |
65,819 |
62,878 |
-4.5 |
|
|
|
Administered programmes |
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|
Aviation Security Enhancements |
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|
- assistance to regional passenger aircraft |
800 |
516 |
-35.5 |
|
|
|
- improving international aviation outreach |
20 |
- |
-100.0 |
|
|
|
- increased air cargo inspections |
4,900 |
2,740 |
-44.1 |
|
|
|
- regional airport 24-hour closed circuit television pilot study |
2,000 |
1,772 |
-11.4 |
|
|
|
- regional airport security |
1,500 |
1,500 |
- |
|
|
|
- regional passenger screening |
3,000 |
2,465 |
-17.8 |
|
|
|
Output 1.3.1-AusLink |
19,752 |
19,613 |
-0.7 |
444 |
|
|
Administered programmes |
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|
AusLink |
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|
- National Network |
1,318,399 |
1,228,903 |
-6.8 |
|
|
|
- Road Safety Black Spot |
44,500 |
44,446 |
-0.1 |
|
|
|
- Roads to Recovery |
307,500 |
307,500 |
- |
|
|
|
- Strategic Regional |
16,500 |
14,500 |
-12.1 |
|
|
|
- Improving Local Roads d |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
|
- Improving the National Network d |
2,510 |
2,510 |
- |
|
|
|
270,000 |
270,000 |
- |
|
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|
Management of residual issues of former Australian National Railways Commission (AN) |
450 |
48 |
-89.3 |
|
|
|
Murray River Bridges-Federation Fund Project |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
|
Upgrade of the Mainline Interstate Railway Track |
20,000 |
- |
-100.0 |
|
|
|
Output 1.4.1-Maritime and land transport |
12,174 |
12,860 |
5.6 |
|
|
|
Administered programmes |
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|
Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme |
35,000 |
31,090 |
-11.2 |
|
|
|
Interstate road transport fees |
48,030 |
47,975 |
-0.1 |
|
|
|
Maritime salvage |
4,250 |
4,250 |
- |
|
|
|
National Transport Commission |
2,507 |
2,507 |
- |
|
|
|
Oil Pollution Compensation Fund |
2,000 |
- |
-100.0 |
|
|
|
Payments to Maritime Industry Finance Company Limited |
7,629 |
3,898 |
-48.9 |
|
|
|
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme |
89,400 |
92,289 |
3.2 |
|
|
|
Tasmanian Wheat Freight Scheme |
1,050 |
- |
-100.0 |
|
|
|
Transport and Logistics Centre of Excellence |
2,000 |
2,000 |
- |
|
|
|
Contributions to international organisations |
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|
- International Civil Aviation Organization |
1,285 |
1,300 |
1.2 |
|
|
|
- International Maritime Organization |
286 |
289 |
1.0 |
|
|
|
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Road Transport programme |
40 |
29 |
-27.5 |
|
|
|
Output 1.4.2-Aviation and Airports |
24,743 |
27,236 |
10.1 |
|
|
|
Administered programmes |
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|
Airport lessee companies-reimbursement of parking fines |
2,572 |
943 |
-63.3 |
|
|
|
Compensation for acquisition and sale of airport land |
3 |
- |
-100.0 |
|
|
|
Implementation of noise amelioration |
|
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|
- for Adelaide Airport |
7,000 |
1,274 |
-81.8 |
||
|
- for Sydney Airport |
5,369 |
3,324 |
-38.1 |
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|
Payment scheme for Airservices Australia's en route charges |
5,550 |
5,955 |
7.3 |
|
|
|
Sydney West Airport-rental properties |
2,652 |
1,903 |
-28.2 |
|
|
|
Canberra International Airport-runway strengthening f |
28,500 |
8,984 |
-68.5 |
|
|
|
Ansett-rapid route recovery scheme g |
- |
6,500 |
100.0 |
|
|
|
Outcome 1-All outputs |
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|
Total price of departmental outputs |
156,909 |
158,766 |
1.2 |
||
|
Less receipts from independent sources |
2,587 |
4,989 |
92.8 |
||
|
Net price to government (appropriation) |
154,322 |
153,777 |
-0.4 |
||
|
Administered programmes summary |
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|
Total cost of administered programmes |
2,237,202 |
2,091,411 |
-6.5 |
||
|
Plus depreciation, write-down of assets etc. |
1,464 |
1,740 |
18.9 |
||
|
Total administered operating expenses |
2,238,666 |
2,093,151 |
-6.5 |
||
|
Less administered revenues |
247,484 |
258,609 |
4.5 |
||
|
Net cost to government |
1,991,182 |
1,834,542 |
4.5 |
||
|
Average staffing level |
849 |
843 |
-0.7 |
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a The budget shown for both departmental outputs and administered programmes is the revised budget published in our 2005-06 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements updated for measures announced in the 2005-06 Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement. Departmental outputs are inclusive of own source revenue.
b The variance is the change in our 2005-06 actuals over our revised 2005-06 budget.
c In the 2005-06 Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement these measure titles were prefaced with the words 'Investing in the nation's infrastructure-...'
d These programmes were announced in the 2005-06 Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement.
e This initiative was announced in the 2005-06 Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement. It involves an additional payment of $270 million to the Australian Rail Track Corporation.
f This one-year programme was announced in the 2005-06 Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statement. Payments of $28.5 million were made in 2005-06 but only $8.98 million was expensed in 2005-06 with the balance treated as a prepayment which will be expensed in 2006-07.
g The variance relates to funding provided in 2002-03 which has been reclassified as a grant.