{
  "meta": {
    "name": "Asset Finance Australia research source registry",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-10",
    "methodology_url": "https://www.assetfinanceaustralia.com.au/methodology/#data"
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "bitre-rva-2025",
      "name": "Road Vehicles Australia, January 2025",
      "publisher": "Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics",
      "url": "https://www.data.gov.au/data/dataset/road-vehicles-australia-january-2025",
      "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "measures": ["registered fleet", "vehicle type", "state", "manufacture year", "make", "model", "identified ute taxonomy aggregates"],
      "not_measures": ["new sales", "purchase price", "finance value", "buyer type"]
    },
    {
      "id": "bitre-rav-2026",
      "name": "Road vehicle entry and recall statistics",
      "publisher": "Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics",
      "url": "https://www.bitre.gov.au/resource/roads-vehicles/road-vehicle-entry-and-recall-statistics",
      "licence": "Commonwealth copyright; source attribution retained",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "measures": ["RAV entries", "vehicle class", "make", "model", "caravan estimates", "tare-weight bands", "tracked ute model index"],
      "not_measures": ["retail sales", "state sales", "buyer type", "finance value"]
    },
    {
      "id": "afa-ute-taxonomy-v1",
      "name": "AFA identified ute and pickup model taxonomy",
      "publisher": "Asset Finance Australia",
      "url": "https://www.assetfinanceaustralia.com.au/data/research/ute-model-taxonomy-v1.json",
      "licence": "AFA original classification; reuse permitted with attribution and version retained",
      "cadence": "Reviewed when source models change",
      "measures": ["exact included make/model pairs", "taxonomy version", "classification limitations"],
      "not_measures": ["official BITRE ute class", "body-style verification", "all light commercial vehicles"]
    },
    {
      "id": "finance-commonwealth-fleet-2026",
      "name": "Automotive Leasing and Fleet Management Services Arrangement Insights",
      "publisher": "Australian Government Department of Finance",
      "url": "https://www.finance.gov.au/government/procurement/automotive-leasing-and-fleet-management-services-arrangement/automotive-leasing-and-fleet-management-services-arrangement-insights",
      "licence": "Commonwealth copyright; source attribution retained",
      "cadence": "Quarterly",
      "measures": ["Commonwealth fleet composition", "asset classifications", "owned and leased shares", "indicative asset value"],
      "not_measures": ["all government purchases", "private buyer purchases", "new vehicle market share"]
    },
    {
      "id": "afa-lead-demand-index",
      "name": "AFA aggregated lead demand index",
      "publisher": "Asset Finance Australia",
      "url": "https://www.assetfinanceaustralia.com.au/methodology/#data",
      "licence": "Not published until aggregate thresholds are met",
      "cadence": "Quarterly when sample permits",
      "measures": ["valid enquiry share", "requested dollar share", "median requested value"],
      "not_measures": ["Australian market share", "approval probability", "settled market volume"]
    },
    {
      "id": "vfacts-buyer-type",
      "name": "VFACTS buyer-type data",
      "publisher": "Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries",
      "url": "https://www.fcai.com.au/get-vfacts/",
      "licence": "Licensed subscription data — not included",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "measures": ["private", "government fleet", "non-government fleet buyer type"],
      "not_measures": ["open reusable data"]
    }
  ]
}