Transport volume : Fleet information

TV006 Average age of fleet (road, aviation)

Series Data

Average age of road fleet

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Light Passenger	12.0	12.2	12.6	12.9	13.2
Light Commercial	11.5	11.6	11.9	12.1	12.2
Mcycle	11.5	10.9	11.0	11.3	11.6
Heavy Truck	13.8	14.0	14.3	14.7	15.1
Bus	15.9	15.9	15.5	15.5	15.4

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Average age of regional road fleet (years)

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Northland
Light passenger vehicle	12.4	12.5	13.0	13.3	13.6
Light commercial vehicle	11.3	11.2	11.6	11.8	12.0
Motorcycle	10.8	11.0	11.1	11.3	11.3
Heavy goods vehicle	13.9	14.1	14.5	14.7	15.2
Bus	17.2	15.7	16.5	16.2	15.9
Overall	12.2	12.4	12.8	13.1	13.4
Auckland
Light passenger vehicle	10.8	11.1	11.5	11.7	12.0
Light commercial vehicle	9.9	10.0	10.5	10.6	10.8
Motorcycle	9.4	9.1	9.4	9.5	9.9
Heavy goods vehicle	11.3	11.4	12.1	12.5	12.8
Bus	13.7	13.5	13.4	13.4	13.3
Overall	10.7	10.9	11.4	11.6	11.9
Waikato
Light passenger vehicle	11.9	12.1	12.5	12.8	13.1
Light commercial vehicle	10.9	10.9	11.3	11.5	11.6
Motorcycle	10.8	10.4	10.8	10.7	11.0
Heavy goods vehicle	13.9	14.1	14.6	15.0	15.3
Bus	16.9	16.7	16.4	16.4	17.1
Overall	11.8	12.0	12.4	12.7	12.9
Bay of Plenty
Light passenger vehicle	12.0	12.2	12.6	12.8	13.0
Light commercial vehicle	11.3	11.3	11.7	11.8	11.9
Motorcycle	10.4	9.9	10.4	10.5	10.8
Heavy goods vehicle	13.1	13.3	13.8	14.1	14.4
Bus	17.5	17.7	17.6	17.1	16.0
Overall	11.9	12.0	12.5	12.7	12.9
Gisborne
Light passenger vehicle	12.4	12.6	13.0	13.2	13.5
Light commercial vehicle	11.6	11.6	11.9	12.1	12.1
Motorcycle	13.7	12.9	12.9	13.0	13.2
Heavy goods vehicle	15.6	15.8	16.0	15.8	15.8
Bus	19.8	20.0	18.2	18.3	19.0
Overall	12.5	12.6	13.0	13.1	13.3
Hawkes Bay
Light passenger vehicle	12.4	12.6	13.0	13.3	13.5
Light commercial vehicle	11.8	11.9	12.3	12.5	12.6
Motorcycle	13.4	12.5	12.4	12.5	12.7
Heavy goods vehicle	15.0	14.9	15.3	15.7	16.1
Bus	18.4	18.4	16.7	17.3	17.2
Overall	12.4	12.6	13.0	13.2	13.5
Taranaki
Light passenger vehicle	12.2	12.4	12.8	12.9	13.2
Light commercial vehicle	11.6	11.4	11.7	11.8	11.9
Motorcycle	11.8	11.4	11.5	11.8	11.7
Heavy goods vehicle	14.1	14.2	14.6	15.0	15.5
Bus	19.8	19.6	18.0	19.8	19.6
Overall	12.2	12.3	12.7	12.8	13.1
Manawatu/Wanganui
Light passenger vehicle	12.4	12.6	13.0	13.2	13.6
Light commercial vehicle	11.7	11.8	12.2	12.2	12.4
Motorcycle	11.0	10.9	11.1	11.2	11.6
Heavy goods vehicle	14.7	14.8	15.3	15.7	16.1
Bus	18.4	18.5	17.8	17.4	17.5
Overall	12.4	12.5	12.9	13.1	13.4
Wellington
Light passenger vehicle	11.2	11.4	11.8	12.0	12.3
Light commercial vehicle	10.4	10.4	10.8	11.0	11.2
Motorcycle	10.6	10.1	10.4	10.6	10.8
Heavy goods vehicle	12.5	12.6	13.0	13.6	14.0
Bus	14.5	14.6	13.7	13.1	13.3
Overall	11.1	11.3	11.7	11.9	12.2
Nelson/Marlborough
Light passenger vehicle	12.8	13.0	13.7	14.1	14.4
Light commercial vehicle	13.1	13.0	13.4	13.5	13.6
Motorcycle	14.2	13.5	13.7	13.7	14.0
Heavy goods vehicle	15.6	15.8	16.2	16.4	16.8
Bus	17.7	18.1	18.0	18.2	18.3
Overall	13.0	13.2	13.8	14.1	14.3
Canterbury
Light passenger vehicle	12.8	13.0	13.4	13.6	14.0
Light commercial vehicle	12.3	12.3	12.7	12.8	12.7
Motorcycle	13.4	12.8	12.9	12.9	13.2
Heavy goods vehicle	14.5	14.5	14.8	15.0	15.4
Bus	14.7	14.8	14.8	14.3	14.1
Overall	12.8	13.0	13.4	13.6	13.8
West Coast
Light passenger vehicle	13.6	13.8	14.2	14.4	14.7
Light commercial vehicle	12.7	12.4	12.5	12.5	12.5
Motorcycle	16.3	15.7	15.0	13.9	13.8
Heavy goods vehicle	15.4	15.1	15.3	15.3	15.5
Bus	19.1	19.1	18.1	17.5	17.7
Overall	13.6	13.7	14.0	14.1	14.3
Otago
Light passenger vehicle	13.0	13.2	13.7	13.9	14.2
Light commercial vehicle	12.3	12.3	12.6	12.8	12.9
Motorcycle	11.2	11.0	11.2	11.6	11.7
Heavy goods vehicle	14.5	14.6	15.0	15.5	15.8
Bus	17.2	17.0	16.4	16.6	16.5
Overall	12.9	13.1	13.5	13.8	14.0
Southland
Light passenger vehicle	13.2	13.4	13.9	14.2	14.6
Light commercial vehicle	12.2	12.1	12.3	12.4	12.5
Motorcycle	13.8	12.8	13.1	12.9	13.8
Heavy goods vehicle	15.7	15.4	15.5	15.7	15.6
Bus	18.0	17.4	16.4	16.2	15.7
Overall	13.1	13.3	13.7	13.9	14.3

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Average age of aircraft fleet

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Large Aeroplanes	13.1	12.7	12.5	12.7	13.4
Medium Aeroplanes	20.3	20.6	21.2	21.9	22.8
Small Aeroplanes	34.1	34.7	35.3	35.7	36.4
Agricultural Aeroplanes	23.1	23.8	25.0	26.0	27.3
Helicopters	18.4	18.1	18.1	18.8	19.4
Sport Aircraft	17.7	17.9	18.1	18.4	18.7
Overall	23.6	23.8	24.1	24.5	25.0

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Metadata


Indicator name	Average age of fleet (road, rail, maritime,aviation)
Key reference number	TV006
Definition of indicator	Average age of fleet (road, rail, ferry, aviation)
Export date	1/02/2012

Average age of the road Fleet
Definition of indicator	Light commercial is defined by vehicle type (truck under 3.5 tonnes, van, ute) rather than usage
	The regional locations are established from the WoF/CoF inspection location rather than the owner address, to avoid the vehicles registered to the Auckland Head Office effect
Nature of data	Road: Quantitative
Data source	NZ Transport Agency Motor Vehicle Register
Frequency	Annual
Disaggregation	Light Passenger; Light Commercial; MCycle; Heavy Commercial; Bus
Timeliness	Before March
Quality of the data	Reliable
	The regional data has some vehicles with unknown region as the lack a WoF/CoF inspection location. These vehicles have not been included in the regional fleet age calculations

Average age of the aircraft fleet
Definition of indicator
Data source	Civil Aviation Authority
Frequency	Annual
Disaggregation	Large Aeroplanes, Medium Aeroplanes, Small Aeroplanes, Agricultural Aeroplanes, Helicopters, Sport Aircraft
Large Aeroplanes	Aeroplanes that must be operated under Part 121 of the Civil Aviation Rules (http://www.caa.govt.nz/rules/rules.htm) when used for air transport
Medium Aeroplanes	Aeroplanes that must be operated under Part 125 of the Civil Aviation Rules (http://www.caa.govt.nz/rules/rules.htm) when used for air transport, except for those required to operate under Part 125 solely due to operating SEIFR
Small Aeroplanes	Other Aeroplanes with Standard Category Certificates of Airworthiness
Agricultural Aeroplanes	Aeroplanes with Restricted Category Certificates of Airworthiness limited to agricultural operations
Helicopters	Helicopters with Standard or Restricted Category Certificates of Airworthiness
Sport Aircraft	All aircraft not included in the groups above, includes Aeroplane, Amateur Built Aeroplane, Amateur Built Glider, Amateur Built Helicopter, Balloon, Glider, Gyroplane, Helicopter, Microlight Class 1, Microlight Class 2, Power Glider.
Timeliness	July
Quality of the data	Reliable

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