Safety, equity and sustainability in transport
The AAA is an apolitical and technology-neutral advocate for federal transport policy that improves safety, equity, and sustainability.
Our key objectives include:
- road safety
- transparency and accountability
- affordable transport
- equitable and appropriate motoring taxes and expenditures
- smart decarbonisation of our transport system.
Australia needs safer roads
Australia lacks detailed, reliable and consistent road safety data in many key areas.
Without good road safety data, we can’t target investment where the need is greatest and we can’t use evidence to set effective priorities and hold governments to account.
Australians need affordable transport
Transport is a significant and unavoidable expense, and all Australians should be able to afford to own, maintain and run a car.
In the 2023-24 financial year, transport costs rose 10.5% – almost triple that periods’ 3.8% CPI increase.
Transparent information and accountable expenditure
The Australian public deserves accurate, comprehsenive and timely information about the nation’s transport system.
This includes data and evidence related to road safety, road funding, and vehicles’ emissions and fuel consumption.
Make road funding fit for the 21st Century
To prevent our roads falling into disrepair, Australia must reform the way it taxes transport.
Our major political parties must work together to find a way to replace fuel excise with a new system that is equitable and that provides the revenue needed to support our transport infrastructure needs.
Smart decarbonisation of transport
Policymakers must not only manage environmental challenges, but also optimise motorists’ choice and information.
And they must establish models that can sustainably fund safer and less congested roads.
