Overview

The freight and logistics program has several projects underway:

  • Adoption of E-Business Systems in the Australian Freight Rail Industry: Impediments and Likely Benefits
  • An integrated system to optimise container transfers at multi-modal terminals
  • Enhancing Track Maintenance Efficiency and Effectiveness Using New Rules Based Algorithms
  • Evaluation of Intermodal terminal performance: Operational performance & location decision support systems
  • Freight & Logistics in Queensland
  • Multi-Combination Vehicles (MCVs): Road user impacts

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Grantor
  • CRC for Rail Innovation
  • Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
  • ARC Linkages grant
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Partnerships

  • Queensland Department of Main Roads and Transport
  • Queensland Rail
  • Brisbane Airport Corporation
  • Port of Brisbane

Publications and output

Tetther, C. and Ferreira, L. (2005). Methodologies for the evaluation of e-business technologies in rail transport, Transport Reviews (submitted).

Wong W. G., Luk S. T., He G. and Ferreira, L. (2005). The development of road asset management systems in China. Transport Reviews ('under review').

Parajuli, A. (2004). Modelling freight modal energy use. Transport Futures, pp 3-5, April 2004,.

Tetther, C and Ferreira, l. (2004). Transport Security: Working Paper 3, The role of governments in improving freight logistics in Queensland, December 2004, QUT, Brisbane.

Tetther, C. and Ferreira, L. (2004). E-Business and Rail: Industry Surveys - The Customer Perspective, Report 4, Rail CRC project 10, QUT, Brisbane.

Tetther, C. and Ferreira, L. (2004). The evaluation of E-business related technologies in the Railway Industry. 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Adelaide, 29 September - 1 October 2004.

Tetther, C. and Ferreira L. (2004). A framework for evaluating the costs and benefits of e-business in the transportation industry; Proceedings, IAWTIC 2004 (International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce), July 2004,Gold Coast.

Tetther, C. (2004). E-Business in the railway industry, the Customer Perspective (Abridged version) , Rail Research Update, Rail CRC ,May 2004, CQU, Rockhampton.

Tetther, C. (2004). E-Business in the railway industry, Transport Futures, pp 10-11,March 2004.

Tetther, C. (2004). E-Business in the Railway industry, the Customer Perspective (Ext. version) , Rail Horizons, RTSA, pp 3-5, June 2004.

Tetther, C. (2004). Evaluation of e-business in rail: a fuzzy logic approach. CAITR Conference, 8-10 December 2004, Melbourne.