Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia (part 2 of 2)
23 April 2026
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Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:01
Like, it's all joined up.
00:01 - 00:54
Speaker 18
Yes. It's 17 networks in a trench coat pretending to be pretending to be one. So understanding, particularly around the interfaces between networks, and in rail, this is a this is a major issue and that the... So, having a better idea of, particularly freight demand and flows on the rail network, especially as they move... As freight moves through cities.
So moving freight across the ARTC network is and and the rural network is relatively straightforward. But scheduling, when it... When those trains hit, metropolitan networks and, like, to get to ports, that gets, that gets very messy very fast. And having a having a much better idea of what boxes, are on trains and what gets moved and how quickly things, need to be moved is, would be really important data.
00:55 - 00:58
Speaker 20
I feel like optimizing this would need a quantum computer.
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