[Peakoil] Trains vs trucks

[Mike Hettinger]

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> At the Sustainable Transport presentation which Leigh and I went to last
> night the presenter Faye Powell mentioned that studies had shown trains
> were no greener for freight than trucks.
>
> Apparently when she worked for National Rail they were going to do a big
> advertising campaign about how green trains were but a study showed the
> difference in emissions slightly favoured trucks! So the ad campaign was
> pulled.
>
> She also pointed to the squealing noise of train wheels as evidence that
> the efficiency gains of trains vs trucks using tyres are not great. Noise
> is a problem in using rail in cities.
>
> However I'd like to see the details of all this reasoning. I wonder if the
> National Rail study is available?
>
> Greenhouse aside, if the price of oil goes up, doesn't that favour
> electrified rail? And if bitumen is expensive, aren't steel rails cheaper
> to maintain?
>
> And I've sent another version of the letter to the Canberra Times.
>
> Alex
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