Place making - street space allocation

How do you design a street space to suit all the users that engage in the space? With local residents, local council, commuters, bicycle riders, car parking, children walking to school, and people exercising all often happening in the same space, what is the best way to design the enhance the space for the community? Our panel explores allocation versus utilisation, car parking versus parklets, and kerbside for people.

Session MC: Nicole Guy, GHD

Street space allocation vs. utilisation in Melbourne’s activity centres - Chris De Gruyter, RMIT University, Victoria

Car parking or parklets: What is the economic benefit? - Alison Lee and Graham McCabe, Urbis, New South Wales

Future Ready Kerbside: Creating places that put people first - Camden Fitzgerald, WSP Australia, New South Wales

Movement and Place - From Theory to Application - Sid Scull, Mott MacDonald, New Zealand

Movement and Place

Session MC: Jaimee Boutcher-Hann, Cardno

Streets for People - Daniel Bennett, Aurecon, South Australia

Valuing liveability: Movement and Place in Queensland -  Dr David Farndon, Department of Transport and Main Roads. Queensland

Sara Stace, WSP Australia, New South Wales 

Cam Perkins, Urban Pirates, New Zealand

People Flow in Precincts – The Making of Place - Cameron MacDonald, GHD, Victoria

The varied scale of the freight transport task

We are bringing together a panel of industry leaders to discuss the varied scale of the freight transport task, and share recent planning updates about Port transport freight, road freight and rail freight.

Session MC: Derrick Hitchins, SMEC

Port Transport Freight Operations Planning Sydney Today – Brisbane Tomorrow – lessons to be learnt - Steve Kanowski,  Deloitte, Queensland and David Freer, Arcadis, Queensland 

Faster Rail in Australia – The Practical Issues - Phillip Campbell OAM, Australian Rail Track Corporation 

Latest in transport planning - emissions

This session will host leading industry experts to focus on planning for emissions through infrastructure changes, hydrogen as a fuel source for heavy vehicles, and ask the question if hydrogen buses are the way of the future.

Session MC: Michael Kane, Economic Development Queensland

Deployment of hydrogen fuel cell heavy vehicles - Dr Elnaz (Elli) Irannezhad, ARRB, Queensland

Understanding the technical complexity of zero emission bus fleet transition is critical to success - Laurane de Gendre, WSP Australia

Hydrogen Buses in the ANZSEA Region: A State-of-the-Art synopsis and key challenges moving forward - Robert Sim – TSA Advisory

Developing the Clean Transport Strategy that Australia deserves - Dr Jake Whitehead, University of Queensland

Connected and Automated Vehicles

Session MC: Dr Miranda Blogg, TMR

Connected and Automated Vehicles Panel Session: 

AI interaction with road infrastructure, future challenges and road map for AV, what should government do to support - Dr Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology

Focused on AV/C-ITS regulation around vehicle data sharing - Marcus Burke, National Transport Commission

Perspective of vehicle manufacturer, level of comfort with data sharing, challenges and road map for C-ITS/AV, what should government do to support - Ada Lin, Lexus

Focused on challenges and opportunities nationally, readiness and collaboration for C-ITS/AV - Scott Benjamin - WSP Australia, Victoria

Intelligent Transport Systems

Our Intelligent Transport Systems session will explore how we are bringing ITS into our road systems, particularly on how we can make our Australian motorways smarter. Our expert panellists will shed light on new innovations in the ITS space as well as challenges faced with implementing smart motorways. Questions will be raised around how our panellists see ITS integrating in to the future of our cities to maximise the value of our existing road infrastructure.

Session MC: Scott Benjamin, WSP

How Australian motorways can be smarter if we unlock their value - Nial O'Brien & Mark Henaway,  Aurecon, New South Wales 

Leading the Delivery and Operation of Smarter Motorways - Louis Franks, Transurban

Next generation of STREAMS® Smart Motorways - Adam Myers, Transmax, Queensland

Safety

We are bringing together a varied panel on the application of ‘Safety’ to our road networks to discuss new and innovative ways to make our projects and communities safer. Our panellists bring expertise from safety for bicycle riders and pedestrians, through to using ITS for improving safety in our project design.

Session MC: Christina De Freitas

Road Safety Policy and Safety Standards - Michael Gillies, Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD

The safety and cost benefits of ELV for ITS field equipment -  Grant Saunders & Hamid Torfeh Nejad , GHD, New South Wales

Safety After Dark Innovation Challenge for Transport for NSW - Elizabeth Muscat, Cardno, New South Wales

Transport Modelling - Digital Tools and Data

The way we use and process data for transport modelling is rapidly changing, due to the developments in technology, automation, computing power and having more data at our fingertips. In this session we discuss the ways we can use data to improve customer journey experience, explore how we can use modelling as tool for exploring uncertainty to understand major project benefits, and developments to the ways we model.

Session MC: Louise Baldwin,  Austraffic

Estimating major project benefits in an uncertain technological future - David Balfe, Veitch Lister Consulting, Queensland

Ensemble modelling as a tool for exploring uncertainty - Hamish Thomas, Arup, Western Australia

The development and application of a land use, transport and economy interaction model - Henry Le,  AECOM, Victoria