WA Emerging Professionals Network Show Off Night

Studied Bachelor of Civil and Construction Engineering from Curtin University. He has around 5 years of undergraduate and postgraduate experience in the private sector with his main skills being in transport engineering, planning, analytics and road safety. Cameron Steel is a Road Safety Auditor trainee and a member of the AITPM EPN WA committee and various Transport Australia Society committees.

Cameron Steel will be presenting on his involvement in the City of Vincent 40km/h Speed Zone Trial project. Whilst at Stantec, Cameron Steel worked with Tim Judd at PJA, where he now works, to undertake a Residents Perception Analysis to understand how the community perceived the outcomes of the trial over time and determine if there was a behavioural change as the trial went on.

Nikki Palmbachs is Senior Public Policy Advisor within the Social and Community Impact division at RAC WA. She is a policy professional with over seven years’ experience across several industries. At RAC, she is responsible for managing research projects and providing evidence-based policy and technical advice complemented by community input, to help reduce harmful vehicle emissions for cleaner, healthier air.

Nikki will be presenting on RAC Member Priorities Tracker survey results, to bring the community’s perspective on topics such as vehicle emissions, and active and public transport, to the conversation. These surveys are used to better understand what’s important to RAC members, who are broadly representative of the WA community, to support safe, sustainable and connected communities now and into the future.

Graduated Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning at Curtin University. Early into her career, Ella Wintle has already proven to be a versatile and dedicated planner. She is particularly passionate about sustainable transport infrastructure and planning for accessibility and connectivity.

Ella Wintle will be presenting a planning research project she has undertaken with her colleagues at WSP, titled ‘Going Pink’. This project aims to understand how women comparatively use and experience public transport in Perth, utilizing bespoke and previously confidential data sets from various industry collaborators. The project creates gender-sensitive transport analysis in a way that has not been done in Perth before. The support and engagement from these collaborators have been vital to the research’s success and the next steps for ‘Going Pink’ in Perth. Creating motivation to steer the transport industry collectively towards gender equity through a range of initiatives.