A summary report prepared by Stuart McCarthy from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil outlines some recent statistical trends in transport. It shows that public transport use is on the increase, while car use is declining, despite Government continuing to invest the majority of their transport budgets into car infrastructure. Statistical modelling for government projects such as the Northern Link car tunnel are shown to be over optimistic in their expectation that existing trends of car dependence will continue over the next two decades.

Download it here http://brisbanept.typepad.com/files/graphs-for-northern-link-eis-submissions.doc