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Local and regional roads and exports – 130314slide 1
The economic value of good roadsRoads and the nation’s export effort
presentation to
LGNZ Transport Summit
Dr Ganesh NanaChief Economist
13 March 2014
Local and regional roads and exports – 130314slide 2
Brief• 2012 research study
* Transport Futures – Economic Evidence
• evaluate the importance of local and regional roads, in comparison to that of state highways, in transporting main commodities from origin source to port of export
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Headline result
Getting NZ’s main land-based exports to port
requires 1.3 to 1.8 tonne kilometres use of local and regional roads
for every 1 tonne kilometre use of state highways
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Which exports?annual export values (Jun 2012)
$bn
Dairy 16.3
Meat 5.5
Logs & timber 3.3
Kiwifruit 1.0
Wine 1.1
Apples 0.3
Total of above 27.5 = 62.5% of total merchandise exports
Total merchandise exports 44.0
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Annual road transport taskfor main land-based exports = 6.6 billion tonne kilometres
0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000
Total
tonne kilometres (million)
origin to processor processor to port
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Annual road transport task
0 750 1,500 2,250 3,000 3,750 4,500
Dairy
Meat
Logs & timber
tonne kilometres (million)
origin to processor processor to port
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Farm-gate to processor milk road transport Top-10 Districts
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Otorohanga
Rotorua
Waikato
Waipa
Ashburton
South Waikato
Matamata-Piako
Selwyn
South Taranaki
Southland
tonne kilometres (million)
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Assessing the road transport task
• origin to processor predominantly via local and regional roads except* in absence of precise data, assume for dairy
between 10% and 35% of this stage on state highways
• processor to port predominantly via state highways
• exclude from calculations use of rail
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Annual road transport task
0 750 1,500 2,250 3,000 3,750 4,500
Dairy - assump B
Dairy - assump A
Meat
Logs & timber
tonne kilometres (million)
local and regional roads state highways
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Annual road transport task for main land-based exports
tonne kilometres (million)
Local and regional
roads
State highways
ratio(local & regional
per SH)
Meat 299 107 2.8
Kiwifruit 16 9 1.8
Wine 11 9 1.2
Apples 12 7 1.7
Logs & timber 2,327 1,871 1.2
Dairy 1,121 819 1.4
Total 3,786 2,822 1.3
or if assumption B 4,217 2,391 1.8
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Road transport for main land-based exports
This distance on state highways
Means at least this much distance is on local and regional roads as well
OR, it might even be up to this much distance on local and regional roads