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THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CARBON SAVINGS OF RAIL
GORAIL FACTS

 TRANSPORT IN AUSTRALIA
Transport represents 14.4% of all Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Australia - Rail is 0.37% Greenhouse Inventory 2005 Australian Greenhouse Office;
Australia has the 2nd highest greenhouse gas emissions for transport in the world and the highest total emissions per capita in the world; See the Comparison table of greenhouse gas emissions
The average Australian shopping basket of goods has travelled 70,803 kms CERES Food Miles Report
In emission terms one basket of shopping per week over a year for the average family buying 100% road freighted goods generates 3 - 11 times more carbon emissions than rail. (Calculations drawn from Apelbaum Consulting Group 2007 & CERES Food Miles Report);

RAIL FREIGHT
One freight train can take up to 150 semi-trailers off the road Based on capacity QRNational Intermodal;
Rail freight is 3 times more energy efficient than road freight Ausralian Greenhouse Office;
Rail freight can reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions by up to 75% Organise a Carbon Transport Audit;

PASSENGER RAIL
A freeway lane carries 2,500 people per hour and a busway 7,000 - A rail line carries 50,000 (Reference: Professor Peter Newman, Page 20);
600 people can travel to work in 500 cars or 11 buses or 1 train Based on capacity, QR Limited
INFORMATION FOR QR STAFF

For QR Staff seeking internal information on GORAIL activities and projects, click on the following link. Please note this link is for QR Staff only and is accessible via the internal QR Portal.

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK:

QR Staff Internal GORAIL Portal Link

The portal link is accessible inside QR buildings and outside QR with LAN user name (entered as internal\user ID) and password login details. Should you experience any technical difficulties, please contact the QR IT Help Desk on Rail 81 1048.

Resources at these links include how to request the staff movie presentation of GORAIL, GORAIL Program documents and presentations on all of the projects, submitting an editorial story to be featured on the GORAIL website, as well as contact information about the GORAIL program of projects.

In addition to this, your can join your team up to the QR Carbon Warriors Program and find out more about how you and your team can get involved with what QR is doing as part of the GORAIL Program.

QR Staff have saved 1.7 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the last 7 years since joining the Australian Greenhouse Challenge in 2000 with the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO).

QR is an inaugural member and remains the only national transport company participating in the Australian Greenhouse Challenge.

If your require any assistance with access to the QR Staff locations, please contact either Kathy Ranford on Rail 81-1822 or email kathy.ranford@qr.com.au or Di Lyons on Rail 81-3768 or email dianne.lyons@qr.com.au.
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