Business and Transport
Australia has the world’s largest per capita road allocation as well as the highest per capita fuel consumption. For logistics, this means that businesses have to depend excessively on road transport for freight thereby increasing costs and being unable to make use of large scale infrastructure. Private freight is commonly carried via road.

Perhaps the most telling sign of Oz transport options difficulties is the slow growth of Australia’s exports compared to the rest of the world. It’s not that there’s nothing to export – quite the contrary. Nor is there a problem with getting goods off the continent – Australia’s shipping system is most capable. Australia’s main exports include coal, iron ore, gold, natural gas, crude petroleum to places like China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Much of these exports take place by ship. The problem arises while transferring goods like coal onto the delivery systems and it’s here that the bottleneck manifests itself.

Oz Transport and Imports
Being an island, albeit a very large island, imports are mainly brought in via ships. Once arrived, crude and refined petroleum, passenger motor vehicles, and medications from countries such as China, US, Japan, and Thailand need to be distributed. With road transport being unable to fully provide goods at a speedy enough rate, the railway system is also insufficient. And it’s this poor infrastructure that Oz transport is finding it difficult to cope with.

Yet, when Australians put their minds to it, they can come up with some state-of-the-art forms of transport.

Oz Public Transport
For example, in South Australia, Adelaide introduced the very first solar-powered electric bus that is recharged using 100% solar energy.  This bus is known as the Tindo.

Tindo Bus in Adelaide

The Tindo is quiet, and produces no emissions. Oz transport can’t get any greener than this.  And to encourage people to stay out of their cars,  the Adelaide City Council provides a free bus service available to anyone who wishes to use it.  The Council has obviously used foresight by allowing free public transport to places such as shopping precincts, hospitals, libraries – in other words the places people want to visit.  And naturally one of the buses in use is the Tindo.

On this site we delve into the intricacies of Oz transport options a bit more.