Freight on Rail

[ozbob]

http://www.ara.net.au/site/Freight_on_Rail.php

Freight on Rail

National Freight Strategy and the Role of Rail

Business as usual practices in the freight transport industry will no longer be sufficient to ensure Australia's international competitiveness in light of the challenges posed:

    * The doubling of the land freight task by 2020, and the tripling of the task by 2050;
    * The projected growth of Australia's population to 35 million by 2050;
    * The resultant road congestion issues (projected to cost Australia $30 billion p.a. by 2020);
    * The resultant scarcity of urban land;
    * The inefficiencies caused by the large volume, often inconsistent and duplicative regulations;
    * Increasing cost of liquid fuels; and
    * The move towards a carbon restricted economy.

The National Freight Strategy advocates a multi-modal solution to the challenges facing freight transportation.

The right mode should be utilised for the task at hand taking into consideration the economic, environmental, reliability and safety performance of that mode.

Why put freight on rail?

    * Rail is the most cost effective mode of transport for inter-capital containerised freight movements.
    * Rail is considerably more energy efficient than road transport; therefore, reducing Australia's dependence on oil imports.
    * Rail is a smarter economic choice for freight haulage for Australia. One freight train from Melbourne to Sydney replaces 150 semi-trailers, saving 45,000 litres of fuel on every journey.
    * Rail can assist in relieving road congestion in metropolitan areas.
    * Rail is up to 9 times safer than road freight.

[Stillwater]

Is anyone aware of the status of the Queensland Integrated Freight Transport Strategy?  What is the timeframe for its preparation and implementation?

Some background exists:

http://www.qtlc.com.au/News_And_Projects/Queensland_Freight_Strategy/

http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/april/april-21-2010/other-top-stories/queensland-to-build-integrated-freight-strategy


TMR has produced a discussion paper:

http://www.qmfc.com.au/files/integrated_freight_strategy_for_queensland_briefing_paper.pdf


And some questions and answers:

http://www.qmfc.com.au/files/questions_to_consider_for_providing_input.pdf


There are snippets of the draft document:

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/~/media/9aa4c520-16e3-428d-be82-52bfbe53a844/section5apolicyenvironment.pdf

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/~/media/dedb2c4f-c1ca-414b-a149-2b202c56bc9d/section6afreightinqueensland.pdf


But there does not seem to be a complete copy of the draft available on the internet.  Can anyone help?

[Golliwog]

The benefit of freight over passenger rail is that it doesnt matter what time the service runs. Just had a 10 car car ballast/coal train run through p4 fortitude valley. Couldn't mmake it out from my vantage point of p2. Just gonna say this last passenger service  on the ferny grove line s at least 1/3 full.

[tomato]

Is anyone aware of the status of the Queensland Integrated Freight Transport Strategy?  What is the timeframe for its preparation and implementation?

Some background exists:

http://www.qtlc.com.au/News_And_Projects/Queensland_Freight_Strategy/

I asked the same question here....http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=4848.0  November14, last year....

" Whilst looking at the Australia TradeCoast Synergy News (letters) yesterday I noticed this page.
Search within Rail BOT doesn't match any documents - there are several google search hits ...

Integrated Freight Strategy for Queensland....."   covers most of references you have listed....

Appears it is not for the punters to read....... :conf

There are however some TMR contact details at the bottom of my post/"lift" from TradeCoast if anyone wants to try following up...