Efficient, low cost supply chains are critical to Australia’s export competitiveness and the nation’s growing freight task. The freight task increased 50% in the ten years to 2016 and is predicted to increase by a further 26% in the next 10 years1. Transporting this export and domestic freight task will require increased supply chain infrastructure…
Study outcomes and proposal for the development of Melbourne Airport railway, regional and future high speed links. Trouble viewing the proposal? Download the PDF.
The Victorian and Commonwealth Government spent $4.2 billion building the Regional Rail Link so that trains from Geelong and other regional cities could run to Southern Cross without being delayed by suburban trains. No sooner was it finished than the RRL effectively became a suburban line itself, serving the mushrooming suburbs in Wyndham, with new…
This submission has been prepared by Rail Futures Institute in the public interest. Rail Futures is an independent non-partisan group formed to advocate cost-effective rail and intermodal solutions for public transport and freight problems based on sound commercial, economic and social reasoning. Rail Futures members include very experienced rail professionals, engineers and economists. Trouble viewing…
The Rail Future submission to Infrastructure Australia, highlighting the role of rail infrastructure in building Australia’s national economic capacity. Trouble viewing the submission? Download the PDF.
This submission deals with two separate but inter-related issues: (i) the critical need to plan for restoration of a rail freight link associated with the current and future potential development of Webb Dock and (ii) a broad vision and concept for integrated public transport (primarily rail-based) and land use planning in the overall Fishermans Bend…