Kim Hassall

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Melbourne

Population and economic growth in virtually all major cities are accompanied by parallel growth in urban freight transport. How this growth is measured can be through a range of freight metrics that can be sourced across a considerable volume of literature. However, this analysis examines four very specific measurements that represent freight activ...

The initial development of the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme began in Australia in 1997 and 1998 with a strategy to lift the productivity to a higher level than was being delivered by the existing conventional trucking fleet. In 2006 federal and State ministers formally agreed the scheme although a significant number of High Productivity...

The third national safety study into the Safety of Australian High Productivity Vehicles

The introduction of High Productivity Vehicles (HPVs) in Australia, through the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme, was predicated on new mechanical engineering standards that were mandated especially for these new vehicles. These standards improved vehicle stability, general performance and safety, especially safety. Two national surveys sho...

The development of the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme in Australia began in the 1997/98 period. In 2006 the scheme was agreed by federal and State ministers although a significant number of High Productivity Vehicles (HPVs) had been operating successfully under State permit schemes prior 2006. With one exception, all the HPVs were heavy r...

The introduction of Performance Based Standards vehicles has been highly successful. Two studies examining the period 2009 - 2016 have shown great safety and productivity benefits when these vehicles become available for adoption. The Australian results should be of great interest to the many countries that are considering the adoption of these veh...

Although the Australian road freight transport industry has seen three mass limits reviews in the mid 1970s, the mid 1980s and in the late 1990s, (Hassall, 2005), there were two very significant truck configuration changes that happened in the mid 1980s and then again in the early 2000s. The first was the trials of a variant of the Canadian B-trai...

Although the Australian road freight transport industry has seen three mass limits reviews in the mid 1970s, the mid 1980s and in the late 1990s, (Hassall, 2005), there were two very significant truck configuration changes that happened in the mid 1980s and then again in the early 2000s. The first was the trials of a variant of the Canadian B-train...

Since the concept of Performance Based was first proposed in Australia, in 1997, by the then National Road Transport Commission, several hundred vehicles that used these new ‘engineering standards’ were commissioned, between 1998 and 2006, under State based permit systems. In 2006 a more formalized regulatory PBS framework was put in place and sinc...

This is the 7th Major Truck Crash Report is the NTARC series

On 1 July 2014 the Australian government activated a body called the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal. This tribunal would examine and legislate minimum rates of pay for owner drivers. This determination was based on the premise that there were strong links between truck crashes and driver remuneration. This perception has been held in Australia s...

The National Truck Accident Research Centre (NTARC) first reported findings into truck crash incidents in 2002. This independent research centre was established by National Transport Insurance (NTI), which continues to be the predominant heavy vehicle and equipment insurer in Australia.The Centre undertakes specific research that we believe is very...

The introduction of High Productivity Vehicles (HPVs) in Australia has been well documented by several authors and agencies since 1999. However, the question of actual versus theoretical safety performance was only studied at a detailed level in 2013. To establish the safety metrics for HPVs it was necessary to establish serious and major accident...

In 1999 Australia's first e-freight marketplace began. Servicing the long distance freight market, and government supported, the venture failed. There were several important learnings from this venture. By 2014 fourteen e-freight marketplaces appeared, but why customers use e-freight marketplaces is poorly understood. This paper examines old and ne...

This report outlines the direct and indirect benefits of High Productivity Vehicles (HPV) in Australia. Direct benefits examined include safety, productivity, fuel and environmental savings. An attempt has also been made to estimate indirect benefits of HPV adoption which include the stimulated economic flow-on benefits, lowering community freight...

In the mid 1990s the Australian Postal Corporation which is the largest urban network transport operator in Australia, began development of a second electronic transport activity application that would record the activity of vehicles, the products carried and the network points services on a ‘transport duty’ basis. The first system had been a fleet...

Many urban areas are experiencing an increase in the number of trucks and vans delivering goods to retailers as well as a decrease in the utilisation of delivery vehicles. This leads to increased emissions, noise and conflicts with pedestrians. Large metropolitan areas often have a number of retail centres with outlets being regularly serviced by w...

In late 2008 the State of Victoria, in Australia, released 'Freight Futures: The Victorian Freight Network Strategy' (DoT, 2008). This was the first major Australian State Freight Strategy that recommended the implementation of an information communication technology (ICT) public domain portal that would enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) w...

By 1998, arguably some four years after the Internet’s general user beginnings, many commentators did not doubt that Internet based home shopping was on its way to revolutionize our lives. At the margin, it certainly allowed us another purchasing channel and for many retailers some 5% to 12% of differing goods is now done through an “e-store” or “e...

The delivery of goods in urban areas is the responsibility of private companies who order, and others who deliver the goods in the interest of the consumer. Traditionally, local governments are responsible for providing space and the right infrastructure. They are also responsible for minimizing the social costs that go with the use of this infrast...

The importance of port clusters to a global city may be viewed from a number of perspectives. The development of port clusters and economies of agglomeration and their contribution to a regional economy is underpinned by information and physical infrastructure that facilitates collaboration between business entities within the cluster. The maturity...

introduction into the concept of logistics parks in Europe and China

The aim of this paper is to introduce a range of findings from specific transport, distribution and logistics topics that have emerged from Raptour’s consulting experiences over the last decade. The substance of these findings and case studies may evolve into specific initiatives to address a means of handling at least some of the future road trans...

The Australian Road Transport Industry has undergone significant changes over the last 30 years. There have been three reviews and increases in the mass carrying limits of trucks. These occurred in the mid 1970s, the Economic Review of Vehicle Limits (ERVL), in the mid 1980s, the Review of Road Vehicle Limits (RoRVL) was undertaken, and the mid to...

This paper focuses on home delivery as a potential market for city logistics. Home delivery is directly related to on-line shopping and is a very interesting market for city logistics. However, the cost structure of home delivery can be a barrier for further development. Therefore, the authors look at the cost structure and develop an approach to d...

This e-business case study of the corProcure enterprise is instructive as it reflects three recurrent themes of the dot-com period: 1. First, the seemingly powerful but unstable corProcure's business model was created between a number of large corporate institutions in response to the corporate pressure to enter the dot-com world. 2. The quick reve...

This e-business case study of the corProcure enterprise is instructive as it reflects three recurrent themes of the dot-com period: 1. First, the seemingly powerful but unstable corProcure’s business model was created between a number of large corporate institutions in response to the corporate pressure to enter the dot-com world. 2. The quick reve...

This paper focuses on home delivery as a potential market for city logistics. Home delivery is directly related to on-line shopping and is a very interesting market for city logistics. However, the cost structure of home delivery can be a barrier for further development. Therefore, we look at the cost structure and develop an approach to determine...

Since the McKinsey Company first forecast, in 1994, that home shopping via the internet would change our lives forever, there has been a continual concern that this demand would generate both more Business to Business (B2B) road transport trips, and a quantum leap in the Business to Consumer (B2C), householder delivery trips. This was also addition...

Regulators in major urban capital cities are looking towards future freight viability strategies that will dampen the growth in urban demand for trucking and commercial vehicle use. To create these strategies it is necessary to know both the patterns of usage for the specific types of truck usage within, into and out of these major urban conurbatio...

Global trade both in bulk commodities and especially in containers have grown by double digit rates in many of the world's large and medium container ports. The Port of Melbourne, Australia's largest container port, is forecasting container growth will rise from its 2007 levels of 2 million twenty foot equivalent containers (TEUs) to 8 million by 2...

Over the last five years in Japan, Germany, Monaco, Switzerland and Greece a radical urban logistics strategy has been trialed. It is called the ‘The Public Logistics Terminal’ (PLT) concept and it is being put into actuality in these and other countries. The implementation of the concept has ranged from being staggeringly successful to less than i...