Infrastructure needs multi-layered partnerships and robust coordination (journal article)
by Mike Mrdak and Mike Taylor
from ATSE Focus, August/September 2009
"Infrastructure needs multi-layered partnerships and robust coordination
The domestic freight task has doubled in size over the past 20 years, with growth averaging 3.5 per cent a year. This trend is likely to continue into the futureGetting our resources to market efficiently and seamlessly will be a key to Australia's global competitiveness in the 21st century. Productivity of our supply chains will come not just from investment in our rail lines, road and ports, but, just as importantly, planning, regulatory and governance reforms, and innovation to remove current restrictions and avoid bottlenecks building up in the future.The challenge for infrastructure and transport is to ensure that capacity constraints to growth of exports that have occurred in the past are not repeated."