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Why short-haul intermodal rail services succeed
The shipping container has revolutionised freight transport over the last half-century but its success is bringing challenges, not least in landside container movements.... -
Transport Elasticities Database
This resource contains a set of tables measuring demand, time, price, and service elasticities for all modes of passenger and freight transport -
The Road Freight Transport Industry
Data and information on the road freight transport industry is in limited supply. In order to reduce this problem, the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics undertook... -
Tasmanian freight schemes parameter review
In March 2006 the Productivity Commission was asked to 'report on the merits and weaknesses of the current arrangements for subsidising containerised and bulk shipping between... -
Tasmanian Passenger and Freight movements
This information sheet provides a summary of Tasmanian passenger and freight movements in 2011–12. It brings together key data about Tasmanian transport from other Bureau... -
Tasmanian Industry Outlook: Implications for Tasrail
On 11 September 1985, Terms of Reference directing the Bureau of Transport Economics to undertake an assessment of the costs and benefits of closing Australian National's... -
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: Recommended Rates of Assistance for So...
This Report sets out recommended new rates of assistance to be paid under the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme TFES on eligible southbound cargoes and on northbound... -
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: Recommended Northbound Assistance Rate...
This report presents the recommended new rates of assistance calculated on the basis of the freight rates prevailing at the end of December 1977. The method of recalculation was... -
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: Discussion Paper September 1996
This report examines the appropriateness of established rates of assistance for the shipping of cargo to and from Tasmania and proposes rate amendments for different commodities... -
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme: A 'Landbridge' Approach to the Estimat...
In order to provide information to assist with the continuing administration of the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme TFES, the Minister for Transport directed the BTE to... -
Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme - Review of the expanded component: Fin...
In March 2015 the Australian Government responded to the Productivity Commission's (2014) Tasmanian Shipping and Freight Report by announcing the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation... -
Submission to the Productivity Commission Road and Rail Freight Infrastructur...
The submission commences with a brief general discussion of the economics of road and rail infrastructure and some implications for pricing; examines the relationship between... -
Road Construction Cost
This report benchmarks the costs of road construction and the timeliness of infrastructure procurement processes for projects undertaken by states and territories since 2015. -
Railway Freight Operations: Survey of Wagon Utilisation
The study is based on analysis of all wagon movements in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and on the ComRail system (as it was then) for the month of May 1974. Data editing and... -
Rail Infrastructure Pricing: Principles and Practice
Our analysis involves consideration of the benefits and costs of mandatory access; the principles of efficient access charges; Australia's systems of access and pricing;... -
Quality of Rail Freight Service: The Customer's Perspective
Indicators currently published by Australian railways do not measure service standards from the viewpoint of customers, but rather are based on statistics compiled by management... -
Optimising Harmonisation in the Australian Railway Industry
In the last decade, Australia's railways have undergone an ownership, operational and technological revolution. The establishment of national public and private train operators... -
Monitoring report 2020 Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme
This report presents results of the first four-yearly review of all components of the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme TFES as directed under Clause 10.5.2 of the TFES... -
Land Transport Infrastructure Pricing: An Introduction
The BTRE projects that the total freight task will continue to grow strongly. Such growth will increase the infrastructure maintenance needs and possibly hasten the need for... -
Freight Rates in Australia (1964 - 2001)
This paper provides estimates of interstate non-bulk freight rates. The estimates show that, in real terms, it has never been cheaper to ship goods in Australia.
