The Grattan truck plan: practical policies for cleaner freight

competitive with road.16 There is most likely to be competition where: ∙ In NSW, the Freight and Ports Plan for 2018 to 2023 laid out a planthe task is not highly time-critical, and to increase the use of rail at Port Botany, from 17.5 per cent in 2016 ∙ the distance is sufficient that cheaper per-kilometre charges of rail to 28 per cent by 2021.21 The Victorian Freight Plan also says it is a outw. [...] but most non-bulk freight will continue to travel by road in Sydney’s Moorebank Intermodal Terminal, which is located in the Even with the substantial increase in government spending on rail, the suburb of Moorebank and connected to Port Botany with a dedicated scope for rail to increase its share of the contested part of the freight freight rail line. [...] But it’s still usual for goods to Complementary actions agreed by federal and state governments travel by truck to the terminal at the beginning of the journey, and from and key members of the rail industry include finding ways to meet the the terminal at the end of the journey. [...] This is the main reason that bulk rail sector’s skills and labour needs, and to align standards for rolling freight accounts for 30 per cent of the road freight task, as shown in stock and components, and operating rules for rail infrastructure and for Figure 1.3 on page 8. [...] Grattan Institute 2022 10 The Grattan truck plan: practical policies for cleaner freight 1.3 The structure of this report Even though trucks are hard to love, there is unlikely to be much change in either the demand for non-bulk freight, or the tendency to choose trucks for the task.