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This issue of Waterline contains our quarterly articles on stevedoring productivity, waterfront reliability and crew to berth ratios.

Public debate on whether the road or the rail sector is relatively more disadvantaged in terms of competition tends naturally to be driven by the specific interests of the protagonists. The focus of the debate reflects changing issues as new, alleged discrepancies are discovered.

Using the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics' Road Infrastructure Assessment Model (RIAM), the Roads 2020 study makes forecasts at a strategic level of expenditure needs for investment and maintenance between 1998 and 2005 and between 2005 and 2020.

This issue of Waterline contains our quarterly articles on stevedoring productivity, waterfront reliability and crew to berth ratios.

Indicators currently published by Australian railways do not measure service standards from the viewpoint of customers, but rather are based on statistics compiled by management for other purposes.

This issue of Waterline includes our regular articles on stevedoring productivity and crew to berth ratios. An article on waterfront reliability presents the first data for a new quarterly series.

What role should the private sector play in road provision? Private contractors already perform a fair amount of the design, construction and maintenance of Australia's publicly owned roads.

Previous BTCE work (Report 94) has established that reductions in pavement roughness reduce fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions (end-use only) and vehicle operating costs.

This Information Paper details government funding of road related expenditure, by State and Commonwealth governments, as well as motor vehicle revenue for the period 1995 to 1996.

This issue of Waterline includes our regular articles on stevedoring performance, port interface costs, port performance and crew to berth ratios. A feature article covers port interface costs at Burnie.