Hal Morris has resigned from his position of QTLC Board Member, a position he has held since April 2009.
Hal brought the breadth of knowledge gained from 30 years experience in the public and private sectors to the role.
“The QTLC would like to acknowledge Hal’s invaluable contribution, his logistics and transport management experience will be greatly missed. We wish him all the very best in his future endeavours” said Neil Findlay, QTLC Chair.
The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) is a proposed bypass route to the north of Toowoomba, approximately 41 km in length. The TSRC will form part of the National Land Transport Network, connecting the Warrego Highway from Helidon in the east, to Charlton (west of Toowoomba), and to the Gore Highway at Athol in the west.
Projects Queensland developed a revised business case for the TSRCwhich was completed in December 2012 and submitted to Infrastructure Australia for Australian Government funding consideration.
For more information about the current business case, which has been prepared by the State Government and sent to the Federal Government for consideration – go to this website. http://www.treasury.qld.gov.au/projects-queensland/projects/toowoomba-range-crossing/index.shtml
On March 1, 2013 Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson announced the appointment of Neil Scales OBE as Director-General, Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Minister Emerson said that Mr Scales had demonstrated his suitability to the role over the past four months that he was the right person to lead the Department.
“Neil has been acting DG since October 2012 and showed outstanding leadership during the recent floods as the Department worked to re-open roads, re-build bridges and re-connect communities quickly,” Mr Emerson said.
“He understands that the task has only just begun to deliver a significant recovery and resilience program across Queensland.
“Neil will also lead the implementation of Newman Government reforms, including a better public transport network, safer licensing, and the delivery of road and transport projects across Queensland.”
The appointment of the QTLC’s CEO Rebecca Michael and the subsequent implementation of the QTLC Operational Plan 2012-2014 have seen an exponential increase in QTLC activities.
To more accurately reflect QTLC’s renewed focus, a major review of the QTLC’s Website content has been undertaken. The revised format is easier to navigate and provides greater context to QTLC’s role in advocating for an efficient and sustainable freight network.
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The QTLC Operational Plan 2012-2014 commits to activities related to the collection of survey information on industry issues and concerns and freight and logistics data to inform QTLC activities and strategic priorities. The collection of survey information on industry issues and freight and logistics data is vital to informing the QTLC activities and strategic priorities.
As a result the POB and QTLC enlisted the services of the Victoria University to undertake the IMEX Logistics Chain Study. The aims of the IMEX study are to provide robust data on:
In addition to indentifying the land side movement of all full and empty import export containers through the POB, Acacia Ridge and the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal, the study will also capture landside movements of:
It will also take into consideration anticipated Port trade growth and the downstream on the network, truck movements and congestion.
The study, when completed will allow for a more informed assessment of freight movements and a greater understanding of impediments to its efficiency.