New Technology

Santiago Ruiz  - Pineros

Co-Author| Ramboll

Santiago is a qualified Civil and Environmental Engineer and a Master of Commerce (Transport & Infrastructure Management, and Finance). He has over 7 years of experience on major transport infrastructure projects including project management and assessment, feasibility studies, business cases, and commercial & technical due diligence. Santiago has provided advisory services on transport infrastructure projects through planning, packaging and procurement, financial closure, design & construction, and operation & maintenance. He is currently pursuing e-Mobility projects in Australia and leveraging our international capabilities and experience to support clients with their transition locally.

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Maja Sig Vestergaard | Ramboll

Maja has a holistic view on every project, and her analytical approach makes her able to pinpoint what is key and create coherence with other projects. Working on global mobility projects, Maja leads Ramboll's E-mobility service line and is driving the integration of EV's into the transport mix.

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Mette Hoe | Ramboll

Mette is an e-Mobility Expert and Market Manager from Ramboll, with close to 20 years of experience in both public and private sectors. She spent 5 years as Head of Business Deployment and International E-mobility of Copenhagen Electric, the central contact point for e-mobility in the Capital Region of Denmark, where she engaged with stakeholders, found new partners for regional, national, and international projects, and promoted activities that supported the deployment of electric vehicles and other green mobility solutions. She spent 2,5 years in New Zealand as a self-employed consultant, where she engaged in the debate and uptake of e-mobility. In Ramboll, Mette coordinates the e-Mobility market, and works as Project Manager on a diverse range of projects from decarbonisation strategies to onsite design and layout of charging stations and facilities.

Handbook for Planning & Establishing EV Charging Infrastructure

This presentation highlights the approach taken in Denmark for the formulation of a national handbook to support the planning and implementation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in public spaces. It covers a number of relevant topics which should be considered in order to provide practical guidance for government departments, councils and practitioners to allow for successful outcomes. As Australia embarks on its transition to a sustainable transport future and embraces electric vehicles there are a number of lessons learnt and practical considerations taken from the Danish context to support our transition.

Angus McDonald, Compass IoT - Modernising Road Planning in the Era of Connected Vehicles

Angus McDonald

Compass IoT 

Angus is a founding director of Compass IoT - a multi-award-winning Road Intelligence company that uses connected vehicle data to help transport professionals build better, safer cities. A serial entrepreneur with over 6 years of experience building tech-enabled mobility business.

Modernising Road Planning in the Era of Connected Vehicles

Connected vehicle data has emerged as a transformative technology for road transport and infrastructure projects, offering unique opportunities for improved safety, efficiency, and resilience. By 2027, it’s estimated there will be over 300 million connected vehicles across the globe. Such an expansive scale could disrupt the way we approach transport and infrastructure challenges, the questions we ask, and the speed at which we solve them.

Samir Namin, Aurecon - Smart Infrastructure & Net Zero

Samir Namin

GHD 

Samira Namin is the Technical Director - ITS, Traffic Signals & Road Lighting at GHD in Brisbane. She comes from a security and surveillance background and has been working in transport industry since 2003.

Smart Infrastructure & Net Zero

The M1 Motorway between Burleigh and Palm Beach (Package B) is being upgraded as part of the Varsity Lakes to Tugun (VL2T) upgrade project. Package B will include significant environmental features through this section of the works. The project delivers several benefits including safety improvement, capacity increase, peak our congestion reduction, provision of better road access and active transport via installation of Smart Motorway Infrastructure. Single mode fibre optic cable facilitated seamless and redundant connection of the ITS technologies such as variable speed limit signs (VSLS), dynamic ramp control (RC) signs, VMS's, Web Cameras, Bluetooth, infra-red traffic logger (TIRTL) transceiver/receiver units, and NextGen traffic signals controllers to DTMR South Coast traffic management centre in Nerang. Carbon footprint measurement, ITS immunity assessment, Infrastructure Sustainability tool and construction of noise mitigation measures are highlights of the design.