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Assessing the Costs of a Haulage Regime
Author(s) -
WillsJohnson Nick
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2009.00553.x
Subject(s) - haulage , train , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , business , third party , transport engineering , engineering , computer science , geography , internet privacy , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , structural engineering , algorithm , rope
Third‐party access to rail infrastructure in Western Australia's Pilbara region is a contentious issue due to concerns about how third‐party trains might impact on incumbents' operations. A recent State Government proposal involves a haulage regime, rather than access by third‐party trains. This article explores the ramifications of haulage by examining voluntary haulage in the United States. It finds, with some caveats, that haulage seems more appropriate to the Pilbara situation than access.