What AVERAGE speed should I use?

It is a peice of info that can be used to ROUGHLY claculate lots of AVERAGE info...such as...how long will it take me to travel from point "A" to point "B"...and ROUGHLY how much fuel I MIGHT use...how long the trip MIGHT, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY take....lots of stuff...

OK Basically if you can't work it out for yourself then..........If you are in a convoy then you will have to stick to the average convoy speed....boring......no speed limits on the open road in the Territory.....so there you can up your average by overtaking the trip leader and speeding along at whatever your Tojo is capable of. Lots of bitumen driving...could have done it in a Falcon or a Commodore. Sounds like an awful lot of driving and not much time to relax and do some sightseeing. Anyway you will be keeping the fuel companies happy.

The trip leader has a "detailed plan already" (I am not the trip leader) and he has done this trip 4 times before, probably has all this info as well....this is for my information...just playing with spreadsheets...having fun....come on guys...just looking for some AVERAGE data here....relax :-)))

StevenL

Thanks for the reply...appreciate it.

You are spot on, we will be on highways almost entirely except for Tanami.

It will be a bit of a rushed trip...I will probably do most of it again at a later date as I intend spending the next 12 years travelling around Oz on my own. I am happy to be travelling with someone who has done it before and using the experience to be able to gauge my own trips later and just see Oz :-)

238k's a day shouldnt be hard, remembering you will have some days where you dont travel anywhere...

even if the conditions only allow 40kph, that will drag it upto around 400ks a day, which in itself shouldnt be hard...

good thinkin on the travellin with someone who has done it first time, catch all the good bits, then come back do em again.

Truckster

Yeah that is my thinking exactly.

I transferred over here on a 3 year contract to run a company in Sydney and the three years are up in April 2004.
They have asked me to sign for another 3 years but I have said "No, lets do it year by year"
I reckon I will take one more year to cover the rest of NSW :-) and then I am out of here.
This 6 week trip will be my first serious holiday since coming here, and my first 'self drive' into the other states (other than crossing into Victoria a few months ago) and I very much intended it to be a worldwind tour to 'see the sights and as you say 'catch all the good bits, then come back do em again'

As Anne said how can you work out an average speed if you do not know the road conditions. Methinks he will be doing around 50-60km average. LIke you might be abke to do a 100km run on the bitumen in 50 minutes and then the next 100km run on a badly corrugated road in 120 minutes. It is all a silly hypothesis.

I would have thought it would be a bit higher than that Willem, that route is mostly high speed seal isn't it. There's a lot of silly stuff on here but it keeps us amused doesn't it :)
Relax

FINALLY A STRAIGHT ANSWER!!!

Thanks Mad Dog, StevenL and Truckster :-)

Sheeze I am almost regretting asking the question.

Wasnt looking for:

critiques of the trip plan,
"Why and what is the purpose of the question",
whether or not I "...could have done it in a Falcon or a Commodore".
If I end up "....keeping the fuel companies happy" so be it, I came here to see Ozzie and I can afford it.
What is the point of travelling those journeys if you only look at the highways?...because I havent seen them!
To someone who has NEVER driven to Melbourne or Adelaide even that can be interesting, highway or not.....remember when as a child you thought even the simplist things in life were fun...I still do.

ALL I wanted was a rough idea of average speeds...everyone of you does this mental calculation when you decide to drive from home to your great aunts house for sunday lunch so that you know when you should depart and when you can suggest that great aunt Isabel takes the sunday chook out of the oven...why my question raised so many negative responses is beyond me...to the ones that just took it for what it was "Thank you"

When I get back from what I reckon will be an amazing trip of 6 weeks that will cover a LOT of Australia I will make a point of posting to all.... MY AVERAGE SPEED! :-)))

I am happy to consider the question closed with this my final thought

"In life, your cup can be either 1/2 full or 1/2 empty, you choose"

I have :-)

Have a good trip. It sounds like a walk in the park after my 11,000K's in 3 weeks. I saw heaps and loved every minute of it, sure beats staying at home thinking about doing it.

I have to agree with Mad Dog that any travelling at all is better than just sitting here thinking about it, as for your average speed can we have a pool?....I will put my guess in at 74.2 kph

Kiwiangler

"In life, your cup can be either 1/2 full or 1/2 empty, you choose"

I would substitute the word CUP with the word BRAIN

Enjoy the race :-)