Abstract: Britain's railways currently carry 11·5% of the country's road and rail freight. This is over a third more than it did ten years ago and growth is set to continue as an increasing number of supply chains realise the benefits of reduced costs and greater reliability over road transport, with its congested network and shortage of drivers. However, for rail to compete with road on a simple comparison of price and quality of service, this paper says the UK Government needs to enable the rail freight industry to look at infrastructure in the same way as road freight looks at roads, with minimal bureaucracy and maximum flexibility. As ever, there are lessons to learned from North America.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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