When it comes to transport planning, Alix’s vision aligns with providing solutions that transcend transport systems and mobility—she believes in equitable accessibility for all. With 16 years of industry experience, she draws on her expertise when it comes to active transport, behaviour change, and sustainability. Having managed multidisciplinary projects of varying scales across two continents, Alix has worked at improving transport outcomes for people in schools, workplaces, hospitals, and new developments in the United Kingdom and Australia.

As an accredited Healthy Streets™ practitioner, Alix is a proud advocate for planning community spaces which are designed for people to connect and interact—not just spaces for road traffic. Recently, she undertook a detailed assessment of a town centre to improve its walkability, and contributed to a streetscape design based on Healthy Streets principles. Incorporating walkability into urban planning is recognised as a key factor in creating vibrant, sustainable, and healthy communities. Such initiatives aim to foster community health and wellness, ensuring that the needs of people walking and riding are met and that public spaces are more inviting and functional for everyone.

Sarah Bridges is a Technical Director at Aurecon, part of the People Movement and Place team. With over 20 years of experience, Sarah has successfully delivered a variety of complex urban infrastructure and regeneration projects, recently focusing on integrated transport and land-use planning.

She has led diverse teams on high-profile, high-value major infrastructure projects, from business case development to delivery. Through her roles as project director and team lead, Sarah has honed her strategic development skills, creating clear project visions and delivery strategies at both the organisational and project levels.

Nicole Vukic is a Transport Planner and Traffic Engineer with 20 years of experience in specialist and multi-disciplinary consultancies. Nicole is currently the National Transport Planning Manager for Arcadis and is responsible for building the organisation’s transport planning capability within Australia, which has seen the business transform and grow under her leadership. She is passionate about working on city-shaping projects, contributing to the creation of great places and influencing how people move between these places efficiently and sustainably.

Nicole has been fortunate to have had some inspiring mentors and sponsors in her career, who have contributed to shaping her professionally and helping her navigate the challenges that come with progressing into management roles. Committed to developing high performing teams and growing the talent pool within the industry, Nicole takes pride in sharing these experiences with people, assisting them with effective goal setting to enable them to advance their careers. Nicole mentors others in the business and encourages and supports them on their career journey.

When commencing her Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Environmental), Nicole quickly realised that she missed writing and changed to a double degree, combining engineering with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. This resulted in her spending time studying and working in Germany, where she experienced how transport systems were supposed to work, igniting her interest in transport planning. Since then, Nicole has been driven by a purpose to ensure that we build for a transport system now and for the future.

Gavin is VLC’s Executive Director (Advisory). With extensive experience working on major transport projects, and much of this on the client side, Gavin is attuned to the needs of clients and understands the landscape that they operate in.

With a commitment to innovation and excellence, Gavin works in partnership with clients to find effective solutions to their complex transport challenges.

Having held senior leadership roles within the public and private sector, Gavin has been directly involved with many high-profile projects, such as Cross River Rail in Brisbane, where he was the Project Director prior to joining VLC. He began his career consulting in the private sector in traffic engineering, transport modelling and transport planning.

Gavin holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and a Masters of Business (Applied Finance).