QR submission to the Productivity Commission's Review of the Economic Costs of Freight Infrastructure and Efficient Approaches to Transport Pricing
10 July 2006

The Review should produce a set of recommendations which will maximise efficiency in the provision and use of Australia's road and rail freight infrastructure. In this regard, QR believes that the priority of this review should be to address the cross-subsidy that exists between road charging for articulated vehicles and other road users, which in turn significantly undermines any attempt to achieve neutrally competitive frameworks for the road and rail freight sectors.

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