Archived News for Engineering Professionals - March, 2011
The Federal Minister for Transport, Anthony Albanese, has released a draft strategy on developing a national freight network to integrate road, rail, ports and airports.
Mr Albanese says such a strategy is overdue, and once it receives public submissions, it will go to Australian Infrastructure Project for funding consideration.
The discussion paper provides a case and priorities for a national land freight network strategy, and an indicative list of projects and programs that Infrastructure Australia has already flagged for inclusion in a long term national land freight network plan.
Aerospace centres to be established
Melbourne aerospace researchers at RMIT are working with leaders of the Russian space industry to build two space centres in Australia.