Freight Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This page contains freight forecasts and associated documentation from the Strategic Freight Model 2022. This includes:

The Excel flat file for the Strategic Freight Model 2022, known as SFM22. This contains NSW freight commodity volume movement forecasts for the 40 year period from 2021 to 2061. The flat file shows forecasts in kilo tonnes on an origin-destination basis for 20 commodity groups moved by road and rail across NSW;

Data Dictionary. This document describes the data attributes of the SFM22 Excel flat file;

Fact sheet. This document provides a high-level overview of the key features of the SFM22 forecasts. This includes inputs, assumptions, methods, drivers and outputs.

More information on the drivers and rationale used to produce the SFM22 forecasts is outlined in the ‘NSW Freight Commodity Demand Forecast Report 2021-2061 Summary’ report. This report will be released on the Open Data hub in July 2025. A visualisation of the SFM22 is available on the Transport for NSW Website under Freight data. Performance Data This page contains freight performance and other related statistics. The data includes:

Freight performance dashboard – Strategic Targets from NSW Freight and Ports Plan 2018-2023 including Use of rail freight Road safety Rail freight access Rail freight capability Port Botany Efficiency

Additional information on above Strategic Targets is available in the NSW Freight and Ports Plan 2018-2023. Visualisations of the Strategic Targets are available on the Transport for NSW Website under Freight data.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Freight Data
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c8341ed0-c018-4949-a66d-41977672352a
Remote Last Updated 17/06/2025
Contact Point
Reference Period 09/07/2022
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Freight Data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-2-freight-data