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Milk Commodity Report
This paper publication covers the production of raw milk, fresh processed milk and milk powder/UHT for domestic consumption and export. This paper deals with milk from cattle only, excluding milk from other sources such as goat, sheep and plant-based milks. This study is focussed primarily on... -
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Wood Sectoral Report
This publication contains analyses of data related to performance of domestic and international wood (includes hardwood and softwood, as well as wood products such as wood chips, timber, wood panel, paper, tissues, pulp, plywood, firewood and logs) supply chains. This study is focussed primarily... -
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Wood (roundwood logs and woodchips) Commodity Report
This report covers the movement of roundwood logs & woodchips from harvest (i.e., forest) to mills or to port for export. The movement of wood after it has been turned into different products such as paper, timber or panels is not covered in this study. This study is focussed primarily on... -
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Freight Train Movement Data from ARTC
Train count and speed have been modelled by analysing GPS pings transmitted by trains and assigning them to the nearest point on the nearest rail segment. This data has been summarised by train service and rail segment for publication. The GeoJSON map includes track gauge, length and geospatial... -
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Trainline statistical reports
Trainline is a compendium of Australia's railways providing insights, analysis, and an understanding of the railway industry. -
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External Costs of Inter-Capital Freight in Australia
Paper given to the 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, 29 September–1 October 2010, Canberra. Author: Jack McAuley. -
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Rail Freight Performance Indicators 2007–08
This statistical report is the third in this series and is a result of collaboration between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). -
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Australian rail freight performance indicators 2005–06
In 2002, the ATC approved a set of six targets and indicators to measure improvements over time in performance of the interstate rail track. Early reports against the indicators were derived entirely from track managers' (below rail) datasets. An ARA survey of train operators (above... -
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Freight rates and competitiveness
Paper given to the Grains West Expo 2005 at Scarborough Beach WA, 19–20 July by David Gargett, Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics. -
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Understanding Australia's urban railways
Understanding Australia's Urban Railways provides an overview of the urban passenger and freight railways in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. For passenger rail, the report explores service provision; patronage trends; recent and planned network expansion; and the key challenges... -
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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 has finally brought seamless rail freight services across the country. There has been a complementary development in... -
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Australian Rail Freight Movements 1979–80
This Information Paper identifies for 1979–80 the freight movements which occurred on Australian railways and the sizes of particular flows. To a large extent this Information Paper represents an update of an earlier Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) publication entitled Australian Rail Freight... -
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Freight Between Australian Cities 1972 to 2001
This paper provides estimates of non-bulk freight flows over seven intercity corridors for three decades from 1972 to 2001. Earlier estimates to 1995 were published in Information Sheet 17. -
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Freight Between Australian Cities
This information sheet provides estimates of non-bulk freight flows over seven intercity corridors for the 25 years from 1970 to 1995. -
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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 quality, the gradual removal of regulations restricting road freight carriage and the exponential growth in interstate... -
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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. Port-induced road traffic congestion impacts on port arteries and communities and undermines port efficiency. Policymakers and...