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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.... -
Trends in Trucks and Traffic
Increasingly in Australia, trucking is an essential feature of economic activity, with road being the only mode possible for much freight traffic (eg in cities), and with rail... -
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 -
Trainline statistical reports
Trainline is a compendium of Australia's railways providing insights, analysis, and an understanding of the railway industry. -
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 Freight Schemes—Parameter Review 2013
Bulk wheat freight costs, Trends in bulk wheat freight rates; 2011, Tasmanian Freight Schemes Parameter Review, BITRE, Canberra ACT. -
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... -
Survey of Trucking Operations 1982–83: Methodology and Results
Early in 1984 the Bureau of Transport Economics carried out a survey of trucking operations, primarily to assist the National Road Freight Industry Inquiry in its data... -
Road vehicle-kilometres travelled: estimation from state and territory fuel s...
This report develops a methodology for estimating traffic levels for each of the eight States and Territories in Australia from March 1965 to June 2010 -
Road freight estimates, forecasts in Australia: interstate, capital cities, r...
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Road and Rail Freight: Competitors or Complements?
Up until the early 1960s, railways dominated all but the shortest land-based freight task. Since then, vast improvements in road vehicle productivity and road infrastructure... -
Road Freight Estimates by State/Territory
Paper given to the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 October–3 October 2008, Gold Coast. Authors: David Gargett, Afzal Hossain -
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;... -
National road network intercity traffic projections to 2030
This report provides long-term passenger and freight vehicle traffic projections for intercity corridors of the National Land Transport Network (NLTN) between 2005 and 2030.
