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Highway Engineering Australia Dec 2017/Jan 2018 PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY HIGHWAY ENGINEERING AUSTRALIA DEC 2017/JAN 2018 V49.4 TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERT, INDEPENDENT, ITS TECHNOLOGY THIRD-PARTY STEEL CERTIFICATION SINCE 1968 TO AUSTRALIAN AND PRINT POST APPROVED - 100001888 NEW ZEALAND STANDARDS MARINI A4 TOP TOWER BLISS&REELS 2.qxp_Mise en page 1 02/02/2016 14:37 Page1 The modular plant optimised asphalt production Maximum flexibility in the use of RAP • Into the mixer • Via recycling ring • Combined (mixer + recycling ring) • Parallel drum • Recycling 100% cold RAP Ready to produce low-energy asphalt Production THE RANGE 5% - 3% TOP TOWER 3000 180 - 220 tph TOP TOWER 3000 P 240 - 240 tph TOP TOWER 4000 240 - 280 tph TOP TOWER 4000 P 280 - 300 tph TOP TOWER MARINI Distributor for Australia Via Roma, 50 - 48011 Alfonsine (RA) - Italy Tel: +39 0544 88111 - [email protected] www.marini.fayat.com BLISS & REELS Pty Ltd Melbourne, Australia ph: +61 (0)3 9850-6666 www.blissandreels.com.au FAYAT MIXING PLANT [email protected] DEC 2017/JAN 2018 contents Volume 49 Number 4 Published by: 2 Editor’s Column Editorial and Publishing Consultants Pty Ltd ABN 85 007 693 138 PO Box 510, Broadford 4 Industry News Victoria 3658 Australia Phone: 1300 EPCGROUP (1300 372 476) Fax: (03) 5784 2210 www.epcgroup.com 14 Cover Feature: ACRS Steel Publisher and Managing Editor Certification Anthony T Schmidt 18 Phone: 1300 EPCGROUP (1300 372 476) Mobile: 0414 788 900 TMAA News Email: [email protected] 18 Deputy Editor Rex Pannell 20 Product Brief: Rocla MassBloc Mobile: 0433 300 106 Email: [email protected] National Advertising Sales Manager 22 ARSC2017 Conference Report Yuri Mamistvalov Phone: 1300 EPCGROUP (1300 372 476) Mobile: 0419 339 865 24 Email: [email protected] 24 IAP Case Study Advertising Sales - SA Jodie Gaffney - AmAgo 30 TCA News Mobile: 0439 749 993 Email: [email protected] Advertising Sales - WA 32 Equipment Focus Licia Salomone - OKeeffe Media Mobile: 0412 080 600 Email: [email protected] 34 Case Study: Eastlink Graphic Design 32 Annette Epifanidis Mobile: 0416 087 412 37 ITS Special Feature TERMS AND CONDITIONS This publication is published by Editorial and Publishing Consultants Pty Ltd (the “Publisher”). 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EDITOR’S COLUMN Building a Multi-Modal Solution to Australia’s Freight Task Dear Readers, now being expected to cater for loads and a significant role in improving the efficiency of capacities for which it was clearly never road transport, it is also clear, that at current Few would question the critical role that an intended or designed. projected growth levels, the road network efficient transport network plays in building Add to that the challenges associated with alone will not be able to cope with the massive a robust, prosperous and resilient economy. finding the people to design, build and deliver increase in freight movements. Indeed, many would argue that in a country the required road infrastructure - and the With that in mind, I believe that the such as ours – where the tyranny of distance ever-present problems associated deciding answer to both our future freight transport is a major consideration in almost everything how we should fund the development, and sustainability challenges lies within the we do – that the quality and efficiency of our construction and on-going operation of the rapid development of additional ‘multi-modal’ transport infrastructure network is one of the network – and the scope of the current freight transport facilities and networks, including an most important factors in ensuring Australia’s transport crisis starts to become clear. expanded road/rail interchange network. economic future. Then there is the matter of environmental The benefits of a multi-modal approach Unfortunately, a number of factors, performance. to freight transport extend far beyond simple including: historically low levels of investment With an ever-increasing emphasis now economies of scale. By moving longhaul freight in road infrastructure (both in terms of being placed on assessing, and hopefully from the road network to the rail network, maintenance and upgrades to existing reducing the environmental impact of all multi-modal facilities also deliver significant infrastructure, the development of new aspects of our day-to-day lives, road freight improvements transport efficiency and road infrastructure, and adoption of new ITS transport looks set to face what is arguably its safety - by reducing the number of long- technologies); the ever-present skills shortage; biggest challenge yet. Every kilometre that a distance heavy vehicle movements. and Australia’s ever-increasing freight task, kilogram of freight has to be moved generates What’s more, moving freight to the rail have all had a major negative impact on our both an economic and environmental cost. network also results in a dramatic reduction in transport capabilities and efficiency. And in a country such as ours, where much the ‘environmental footprint’ of each freight Without wishing to appear overly of the freight travels an inordinate number of kilometre – an especially critical factor, given melodramatic, in terms of Australia’s kilometres, that cost can be quite staggering. the ever-increasing focus on environmental transport infrastructure and future Over the past two decades Australia’s performance and reducing the carbon capabilities, the situation is rapidly freight task has more than doubled. What’s footprint of business operations. approaching ‘critical’ – a factor which is more, it is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. clearly evidenced by the many clogged roads Indeed, by 2030 our national freight task is and transport bottlenecks that now exist expected to have grown to a staggering 1 across the network. trillion tonne / kilometres per year. 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