TraNSIT: unlocking options for efficient logistics infrastructure in Australian agriculture: final report
Transport infrastructure is essential to moving over 80 million tonnes of Australian agricultural (including horticultural) output between farms, storage, processors and to markets each year. Agriculture in Australia is characterised by long supply chains with total distance between production, processing and markets often exceeding thousands of kilometres. CSIRO developed the Transport Network Strategic Investment Tool (TraNSIT) to provide a comprehensive view of transport logistics costs and benefits due to infrastructure investments and policy changes in agriculture supply chains in Australia. A baseline analysis was produced to show the annual transport cost for each commodity along with freight volumes along each road segment. The total annual transport cost (road and rail) is $5.8 billion or 9.8% of the total farm gross value of production in 2015/2016. Several case studies were identified by industry and government and were chosen for this report to represent the diversity of applications across Australia. TraNSIT is now being applied abroad, particularly in Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam to address supply chain inefficiencies and cross-border bottlenecks. In the future, TranSIT will be extended to incorporate rain and flood hazards. The updated tool will provide Australian agriculture and related stakeholders with a capacity to inform infrastructure (and related supply chain) investments and identify opportunities to reduce the economic impact of weather and flood events that disrupt either transport access or stock health. A future version of TraNSIT will have a web interface (TraNSIT Web) that can be used by key Federal and State agencies to test a range of transport infrastructure and regulatory scenarios.
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Corporate Authors:
CSIRO
GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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Authors:
- Higgins, A
- McFallan, S
- McKeown, A
- Bruce, C
- Marinoni, O
- Chilcott, C
- Stone, P
- Laredo, L
- Beaty, M
- Publication Date: 2017-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 55p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Agriculture; Case studies; Decision support systems; Freight transportation; Infrastructure; Investments; Logistics
- Uncontrolled Terms: Freight transport logistics
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- ATRI Terms: Agriculture; Case study; Decision support; Freight transport; Infrastructure; Investment; Logistics
- ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 2248: Decision process; 1112: Freight transport; 1055: Transport infrastructure
- Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01654069
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Dec 19 2017 11:09AM