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Freight on Rail
Freight on Rail – Philippa Edmunds
Freight on Rail members
Campaign for Better Transport
DB Cargo UK
Freightliner
Direct Rail Services
GB Railfreight
Rail Freight Group
RMT
ASLEF
TSSA
Freight on Rail
We need to talk about rail freight
Agenda
• What is Freight on Rail?
• Benefits of rail freight
• Exposing lack of equity across
different modes
• Rail freight strengths
• Rail’s role in urban logistics
• Need for rail connected
terminals/consolidation
• 7ft Longer semi- trailers
unsuitable on many urban roads
• Distance based lorry road user
charging to improve efficiency.
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What Freight on Rail does
• FoR acts as facilitator at
national, sub-national
& local levels
• Working with:-
Local authorities, LEPs,
ITAs, Combined
Authorities, Unions,
Environmental NGOs,
TfL, TfN , ORR, Network
Rail DfT, & DCLG
www.freightonrail.org.uk
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Why rail freight
• Rail reduces congestion and
improves reliability - worth
£1.6 billion to economy
• An average freight train can
remove 70 HGVs
• An aggregates train removes up
to 136 HGVs
• Need multi-modal options
• Rail is safer
• HGVs six times more likely
than cars to be involved in fatal
accidents on minor roads
• Rail produces 76% less CO2
than equivalent road journey
• Air quality benefits
Rail freight produces almost 90%
less PM10 & up to fifteen times
less NOx emissions than HGVs -
responsible 21% NOx emissions
but only 5% of vehicle kms
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Lack of equity between HGVs/Rail
• Our research, using DfT figures
shows that:-
• HGVs pay less than a third of
costs they impose on society in
terms of crashes, congestion,
road damage and pollution.
• £6.5 billion annual subsidy
• External costs of HGVs ten
times higher than rail
• MDS Transmodal research
found £6 billion annum subsidy
• T&E research April 2016 –
HGVs pay 30% of their
external costs in EU
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Rail Freight strengths
• Road & rail complement each
other
• Modes should play to their
strengths
• Rail – long distance trunk haul
& traditional bulk.
• Government rail freight strategy
gives industry confidence to
invest
• DfT strategy recognises rail
freight’s role in reducing
congestion, crashes, air
pollution & carbon emissions
• Crucial part of supply chain
• Rail network needs upgrading
because there is suppressed rail
freight demand
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Key rail freight markets expanding
• Consumer traffic grew 7% Q1
– highest level since 1998:
grew 4% in Q2
30% in last 10 years
• Construction grew 8% in Q2
• Growth forecasts -Overall 2.9%
(tonne km pa), fourfold growth
in consumer traffic by 2043
• Suppressed demand for rail out
of Felixstowe & Southampton
as well as in construction
market.
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Terminals/consolidation centres
• Use rail for long distance haul
& then tranship into low
emissions vehicles
• Rail connected consolidation
centres on edge of conurbations
• Key role of large & small
terminals.
• Strategic Rail Freight
Interchanges (SRFIs) coming
on stream such as I-Port
Doncaster
• Daventry SRFI removes 23
million lorry miles pa.
• Need for terminals so
construction materials can be
brought into heart of cities and
waste/spoil removed by rail.
• Rail transports 40% of
London’s aggregates. Eg.
Crossrail, Olympics
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Planning urban terminals
• Building & protecting
terminals
• Design needs to minimise
local adverse impacts
• Need to safeguard urban
terminals from loss from
inappropriate adjacent
developments
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Rail freight solutions
• GB Railfreight launching fast
daily parcel service between
London & Doncaster in 2018
• Using re-purposed Intercity 125
– equivalent to 6 HGVs
• Same day service
• Night trials of freight trains,
into Euston for Sainsburys &
TNT – equivalent to 70 HGVs
• Onward transhipment into low
emissions vehicles for final
deliveries
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7ft longer semi-trailers (LSTs) unsuitable for
many urban roads
• LSTs have rear tail-swing
double of standard HGVs,
dangerous for pedestrians,
cyclists & other vehicles
• DfT evaluater cannot judge
LST safety on urban roads
• LSTs going between retail sites
128% and 177% higher damage
incidents than normal HGVs
• DfT must analyse what urban
roads being used before
increasing numbers of LSTs
• Load efficiency, infrastructure
damage & minor incidents data
relies on operators without
independent verification.
• Highly subjective safety criteria
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Distance Based Lorry charging
• Objective to overcome unfair
foreign competition
• Revenue neutral
• Money raised from overnight
charges to go to skills/training
& roadside facilities
• Improve efficiency of road
haulage which is competitive
but not efficient.
• Reduce HGV external costs
• Reduce empty running
currently 29% in UK
• With distance lorry charging
system in Germany 2005/09
• Empty running reduced from 28
to 17% with load utilisation
improving
• 7% increase in rail freight
volumes