Background:
Climate Change and the ramifications to overcome its impact are
with us. Australia has now signed the Kyoto Protocol and the
Rudd Government has made a commitment to introduce an emissions
trading scheme (ETS) in 2010. All transport modes will have
to operate in a new environment where carbon emission and fuel
supplies play an increasingly important role in everyday
operations.
The rail industry therefore needs to
develop greater awareness of the issues surrounding the formulation
and implementation of emissions. The rail industry also needs to
play a leading role in the public and political debates surrounding
this issue.
Objective:
The objective of this research project is to ensure that the
rail industry develops sufficient foresight with regard to
political, scientific and policy trends relating to carbon trading
at both a national and international level.
Project
scope:
The scope of this project is to present a number of comparable
case studies or scenarios that will evaluate the effects of various
implementations of an ETS on the rail sector. These scenarios will
then be analysed in order to determine the effect of various models
of emissions trading on the rail sector.
Benefits:
The outputs of this project will
benefit the rail industry as a whole. The report and outputs of
this project will be used to inform the rail industry of the issues
surrounding the implementation of an ETS for rail, and how rail
could use this to its advantage over the other transport modes.
Expected outcomes:
Establishment of transport task and emission factor models and
completion of economic modelling and case study/scenario
evaluations.
Project timeframe:
18 Months (from January 08)
Project
Chair:
Brett Hughes,
Manager Policy, Australasian Railway Association
Project
Leader:
Prof. Michael Evans, Executive Dean, Faculty of Business and
Law, Southern Cross University
Tel: (02) 6620 3076
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