Right now, in Australia it can take less time to build a train than it does to get it approved to run across the country. This is a major deterrent to investment and creates a barrier to moving more freight onto rail. We are working with industry and regulators to streamline and simplify the process.

Australia’s rail networks have 12 separate rule books and many different standards, operating rules and processes. This is a burden for workers who operate across networks. It increases training time and costs and affects safety. The NTC is working with industry to harmonise rules and training, making rail simpler, safer and better able to attract a skilled and mobile workforce.

Australia’s rail networks are investing in digital systems that can significantly improve the safety and productivity of our railways. Australia’s rail networks are investing in digital systems that can significantly improve the safety and productivity of our railways. We're working with industry, governments and unions to coordinate their rollout. By ensuring technologies align, we can get trains running safely and more efficiently, helping rail play a bigger role in the nation’s economy and connecting more people to opportunities .

Australia’s rail networks each have their own standards for technologies, trains, infrastructure, operating rules and worker training. The differences come at a huge cost to safety and limits the capacity and competitiveness of rail freight. We are working on a new national approach to standards and ways of working that will drive interoperability and improve safety and efficiencies across networks.

Around 70,000 extra workers will be needed over the next decade to build, run and maintain expanding networks. This includes 13,000 digital specific roles to support the introduction of new technologies. We're working with governments, industry and the education sector to identify the new skillsets required, develop faster, nationally-recognised pathways to these skills and encourage new, diverse cohort of workers into rail.

We're in the final stages of delivering an updated law for heavy vehicles.

We're working to enable the safe operation of AVs on our roads.

The Rail Safety National Law (RSNL) aims for a seamless and coordinated national approach to rail safety regulation in Australia.

The NTC provides secretariat support to a joint industry-government Vehicle Generated Data Working Group.

The NTC has completed its review of the 2017 edition of the National Standard for H

The NTC is conducting the first comprehensive review of the Australian Dangerous Go

The NTC is identifying options to improve the diagnosis and screening of sleep apno

Australia’s transport ministers have announced an increase to heavy vehicle charges

The NTC and Austroads released updated Guidelines for trials of automated vehicles in December 2020 to support nationally consistent conditions for AV trials in Australia.

We are reviewing options for setting heavy vehicle charges from 2023-24 onwards following the recent heavy vehicle charges determination.

The National Women in Transport initiative brings together government and industry