Background:
The Australian Government announced that the
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will be implemented in
2010. The Australian rail industry therefore needs to understand
the consequences of the CPRS and the implications of industry
responses.
Objective:
The objective of this
research project is to ensure that the rail industry, as a sector,
develops sufficient foresight with regard to political, scientific
and policy trends relating to the CPRS at both a national and
international level. The project will attempt to ascertain whether
rail would benefit or suffer from a national CPRS in comparison
with other transport modes such as road, air or sea. The project
will also inform rail organisations regarding how they can better
align their organisational capabilities with an emissions trading
scheme in order to maintain or increase their
competitiveness.
Project scope:
The
scope of this project is therefore to present a number of
comparable case studies or scenarios that will evaluate the effects
of various implementations of the CPRS on the rail sector. These
scenarios will then be analysed in order to determine the effect of
various models of CPRS 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 a
CPRS for rail, and how rail could use this to its advantage over
the other transport modes.
Expected outcomes:
- Established transport task and emission factor
models
- Completion of economic modelling
- Completion of case study/scenario evaluations
- Report on policy implications of findings –
completion of final report to industry
Project
timeframe:
April 2008 – October
2009
Project Chair:
Brett Hughes, Director Policy, Australasian Railway
Association
Project Leader:
Rocco Zito, Acting Director,
Transport Systems Centre, Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies, University of
South Australia
Tel: 08 8302 1863
Email: rocco.zito@unisa.edu.au
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