THE ASSESSMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES ROAD FREIGHT DEFICITS

In recent years, as the volume of freight hauled by road has increased, more attention has been paid to cost recovery from the road freight industry. Methodology, used by the recent NSW commission on enquiry into road freight industry is employed to establish revised attributable costs for NSW heavy trucks operating on public roads. These estimates are compared with those based on current New Zealand road user charges for trucks. A more useful indicator than percentage of cost recovery would be the actual hidden subsidies enjoyed by the road freight industry. These subsidies are termed "road freight deficites" and are then compared with widely publicized rail deficits. Some general remarks about freight rationalization are also included. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Papers from the 8th Australian Transport Research Forum, Canberra, May 18-20, 1983, Volumes 1-3. This paper was presented in Session 5A: Road Funding and Cost Recovery.
• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Government Publishing Service

  P.O. Box 84
  Canberra, A.C.T. 2600,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Laird, P G
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 287-303
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • ISSN: 1032-4152

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Costs; Deficits; Financing; Freight transportation; Highway user taxation; Methodology; Railroad transportation; Subsidies; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Recovery
• Geographic Terms: Australia; New Zealand
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 244: Financing; 741: Goods traffic; 1236: Lorry; 9102: Method; 8079: New Zealand; 1173: Rail bound transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378984
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 644 02516 6
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM