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In 1971, when big prime movers were starting to appear on our highways, just over half of Australia’s non-bulk freight – which is mainly consumer goods and business inputs – was moved via road. Today, road’s national share of non-bulk freight has risen to 83%, but on the eastern seaboard it’s around 95%, and as high as 97% on some routes. ...the cost of moving 1 tonne of freight by road over a distance of 1 kilometre (known as cost per tonne kilometre) is 7.5 cents for road, more than double the 3.5 cents for rail. The greenhouse-gas emissions for road are more than triple those for rail: 52 grams per tonne kilometre versus 15.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:48:30 +0000

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