Inland Rail was meant to take 200,000 trucks a year off our roads – but it’s now been cut in half. Why is rail freight shortchanged compared to roads and city rail?
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Unless transport emissions are tackled head-on, Australia’s new climate target cannot be met.
The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations.
The only way to reduce soaring transport emissions is to shift as much travel as possible to the lowest-emission option.
Modelling shows a shift to electric trucks is the better, faster option for cutting transport emissions under most plausible scenarios in Australia’s energy transition.
Battery electric trucks offer larger and more certain emission cuts than trucks powered by hydrogen in the quest to reduce Australia’s stubbornly high transport emissions.
South Africa’s agricultural exports are vulnerable because of reliance on a few markets and weaknesses in domestic logistics chains.
Increased use of freight trains can ease the HGV driver crisis and improve the air quality, research shows.
The benefits of road-user charging are now well established. And including electric vehicles doesn’t have to be a deterrent to their uptake, as New Zealand and other nations have shown.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Sheffield
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Senior University Teacher in Operations Management and Continuous Improvement, University of Sheffield
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Supply Chain and Freight Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology