Australia’s road and rail supply chain resilience
T
he Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development has commissioned a review into road and rail supply chain resilience. The review will be led by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (DITRDC) supported by independent advice as required. The review will:
1. Define and determine key risks to critical supply routes – routes that transport large quantities of freight or are critical to supply of essential goods or services across Australia; 2. Identify key risks to critical supply routes in the short, medium and long term — including weather events or natural disasters, limited alternative routes, and limited and difficult to access alternative transport modes; 3. Assess the potential vulnerabilities in critical supply routes; 4. Complete a stocktake of recent relevant
work by government and industry intended to identify and mitigate Australian domestic road and rail supply chain risks; 5. Identify data generation, capture and use requirements necessary to assess, inform best practice and improve road and rail supply chain resilience; 6. Determine the critical routes at highest risk of failure; and 7. Develop and present pragmatic options for governments to mitigate or address risks to critical road and rail supply chains, in alignment with the Government-agreed framework to identify and mitigate critical supply chain risks. The focus of the review is on Australia’s road and rail infrastructure and linked infrastructure. Matters such as international supply chain vulnerability, costs of freight, the transport workforce and critical inputs to the transport sector are outside the scope of the review. To find out more visit: www.bitre.gov.au/roadrail-supply-chain-resilience-review.
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