Potential economic impact of high productivity vehicles for woodchip transport in the Green Triangle region of Australia

Transport cost are one of the major costs for forest operations and as the industry faces large increase in their freight task of over 350 million t-km in the next three years in the Green Triangle region they are eager to explore options to be as efficient as possible in tackling that new freight task. Through looking at their current payload efficiency using weigh bridge data it was noted that different configurations offer over double potential payload as compared to the basic semi-trailer but suffer from limited access. With the availability of Performance Based Standards to introduce new high productivity configurations the industry is now exploring three new configurations that have the potential to reduce cost by as much as 18 per cent and fuel use and thus greenhouse gas emissions by up to 26 per cent. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E219320.

  • Authors:
    • BROWN, M W
    • WALSH, D J
  • Publication Date: 2010-3

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 01165708
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: TRL
  • Files: ITRD, ATRI
  • Created Date: Aug 26 2010 8:28AM