THE TRANSPORT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: CASE STUDIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES

The transport of agricultural products is an area that appears to have received little coverage at previous ATRF's The intention of this paper is: to describe the nature of the transport task for several major agricultural commodities -wheat, wool, eggs, milk and livestock; and to provide an analysis of how regulations that are applied to the agricultural commodities can affect the transport task. With certain commodities, a significant level of control is vested in Federal or state statutory authorities. These authorities in turn impose or tolerate various constraints on how, where and by whom the commodity is transported. In this way the government is influencing costs, not only in agricultural production, but also in transport. This raises the policy question of the extent to which governments should then act to ensure maximum economic efficiency in this area of transport. For the covering abstract of the conference see TRIS 452099. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 10th Australian Transport Research Forum, Melbourne, 13-15 May 1985. Volumes 1 and 2.
• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Teasdale, M
  • SCHOU, K
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 61-70
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Australian Road Research Board
  • Publisher: ARRB
  • ISSN: 1445-4467

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agricultural products; Agriculture; Animals; Case studies; Conferences; Contractors; Economic benefits; Economic efficiency; Federal government; Food; Freight transportation; Livestock; Railroad transportation; Regulations; State government; Trucks
• Geographic Terms: Australia; United States
• ITRD Terms: 347: Agriculture; 2459: Animal; 8006: Australia; 8525: Conference; 136: Contractor; 237: Economic efficiency; 2053: Food; 741: Goods traffic; 183: Government (national); 1236: Lorry; 1173: Rail bound transport
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Motor Carriers; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452115
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86910-175-7
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1986 12:00AM