Engagement for Equitable Mobility - The why and how of community engagement for transport projects Webinar | Wednesday 4 September 2024
About this event
The team responsible for community engagement on transport projects are often a few steps removed from the design and delivery process. The engagement itself may lack critical thought as to different user groups and how to reach them. Opportunities can be missed to address questions and concerns held by the community. Users and their needs or aspirations may be poorly understood and not factored into the project design.
In this webinar, our speakers looked at a range of community engagement issues by reference to specific projects where effective community engagement contributed to the outcome. They addressed the process, timing, feedback, the role of engineers, planners and designers in stewarding quality community engagement and what happens if it goes wrong.
Additionally, the session looked at how specific approaches to representative groups can enhance the outcome using a gender impact assessment process as an example.
This webinar was developed by the Equitable Mobility Task Group set up under the AITPM Inclusive Mobility Program.
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Speakers
FACILITATOR - Alix Oakes | Principal Transport Planner, Practice Leader - Complete Streets | Stantec
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.
Fran Horsley | Manager Open Space for Everyone, Community & Partnerships | Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Fran has worked in strategy, planning and delivery of public open space and park management in the Victorian public sector for over 30 years. She has a particular passion for creating access to nature based public spaces as intrinsic to the health and wellbeing of communities and in shaping healthy liveable cities. She has worked with Parks Victoria at a state and metropolitan level and now with state government leading the Open Space for Everyone open space strategy for metropolitan Melbourne.
Fran recently led the development of the Shrine to Sea masterplan, a new boulevard for Melbourne connecting Kings Domain gardens to Port Phillip Bay with safer and clearer links and connection for walking and cycling and a celebration of local history. Not all aspirations have been achieved, but extensive community engagement and inclusive design has been central to the planning process.
Denise Francisco | Senior Associate/ Client Development Lead | Capire
Denise has extensive experience in social planning and policy and delivering projects for public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She is an accomplished facilitator bringing people, teams, and stakeholders together to help navigate change, whilst ensuring participants feel safe, are challenged, and achieve collective creativity.
Denise and other members of the Capire team recently supported the City of Greater Geelong to plan and deliver a deliberative engagement process to co-design an Urban Design Framework for the Pakington Street North Precinct.
This Framework was adopted by Council in May 2024 and will guide future development to revitalise the precinct and accommodate demand for new homes, shops, services and jobs.
One Councillor described it as “the City’s most extensive community consultation to date”. The UDF sets the stage for sustainable development in the Pakington Street North Precinct, including better connectivity, more greenery and much-needed housing, while respecting the area’s history.
Liz Irvin | Senior Transport Planner | Stantec
Liz has worked in transport in Australia, the UK and Canada. Her work focuses on the planning and designing for walking, bike riding and other forms of sustainable transport. Liz works on projects for councils across Victoria and is also working on the pop-up bike route program with the Victorian Department of Transport and Planner.
Liz has a keen interest in the social equity side of transport, and in ensuring community engagement reaches everyone. Applying the Healthy Streets framework and using processes like the gender impact assessment centres the user in the planning and design of projects, ensuring a better outcome for all.
Colleagues who registered to attend
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Brisbane City Council | QLD |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
City of Ryde | NSW |
Matrix Traffic and Transport Data | NSW |
Stantec | VIC |
WSP Australia | QLD |
Wayfinder Labs | VIC |
Sydney Metro | NSW |
Jacobs | SA |
Penrith City Council | NSW |
Crossley Transport Planning | NSW |
Mott MacDonald | QLD |
Bitzios Consulting | QLD |
Albury City Council | NSW |
Department of Transport WA | WA |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
Arcadis | VIC |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
GHD | VIC |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Transport for NSW | NSW |
City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters | SA |
SMEC Australia | QLD |
The University of Melbourne | VIC |
AITPM Ltd | NSW |
Traffix Group Pty Ltd | VIC |
Edith Cowan University | WA |
Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland | QLD |
City of Launceston | TAS |
Contractor | QLD |
GHD | VIC |
Jacobs | QLD |
City of Ryde | NSW |
Department of Transport WA | WA |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Crossley Transport Planning | NSW |
Stantec Australia Pty Ltd | VIC |
Major Road Projects Victoria | VIC |
Bitzios Consulting | QLD |
SLR Consulting | NSW |
Barker Ryan Stewart | NSW |
. | QLD |
Hume City Council | VIC |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
City of Port Adelaide Enfield | SA |
Tonkin | SA |
Northern Beaches Council | NSW |
Public Transport Authority | WA |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
University of Sydney | NSW |
Zwart Transport Planning | QLD |
Traffix Group Pty Ltd | VIC |
Royal Automobile Club of WA (RAC) | WA |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Niobe Consulting | NSW |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Veitch Lister Consulting | QLD |
PTT | QLD |
Stantec Australia Pty Ltd | VIC |
Transport for NSW | NSW |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Mitcham Council | SA |
Logan City Council | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
City of Moreton Bay | QLD |
Ratio Consultants | VIC |
Mott MacDonald | NSW |
Egis | VIC |
Toowoomba Regional Council | QLD |
University of Sydney | (no answer selected) |
Department of State Growth | TAS |
Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland | QLD |
Redland City Council | QLD |
ali.hopkins@transport.nsw.gov.au | NSW |
SLR Consulting | QLD |
SITE Traffic | QLD |
Veitch Lister Consulting | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Monash University | VIC |
Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland | QLD |
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
City of Parramatta Council | NSW |
Global Designing Cities Initiative | NSW |
La Trobe University | VIC |
HDR | QLD |
Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads Qld | QLD |
Bitzios Consulting | QLD |
University of Southern Queensland | QLD |
City of Moreton Bay | QLD |
City of Gold Coast Council | QLD |
GHD | WA |
Stantec | VIC |
VLC | VIC |
Ason Group | NSW |
Redland City Council | QLD |
Department of State Growth | TAS |
University of South Australia | SA |
Queensland University of Technology | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD | NSW |
Traffic and Transport Solutions | WA |
Aurecon | SA |
Transport for NSW | NSW |
NSW | |
Department for Infrastructure and Transport | SA |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Toowoomba Regional Council | QLD |
Movement & Place consulting | VIC |
WA | |
University of New South Wales | NSW |
AECOM | QLD |
ACT Government | ACT |
Department of State Growth | TAS |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
PJA | WA |
City of Charles Sturt Council | SA |
City of Ryde | NSW |
Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) | ACT |
Liverpool City Council | NSW |
Monash university | VIC |
WALGA | WA |
Jacobs | QLD |
The University of Queensland | QLD |
retired | NSW |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
VLC | QLD |
SLR Consulting Australia Pty Ltd | QLD |
Independent | VIC |
Traffix Group | VIC |
Sutherland Shire Council | NSW |
Amber Organisation | VIC |
City of Port Phillip | VIC |
SMEC | VIC |
Griffith university | QLD |
Urbis | VIC |
Penrith City Council | NSW |
VLC | QLD |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Monash University | VIC |
Independent | VIC |
City of Port Phillip | VIC |
Louise Round Consulting | WA |
Main Roads WA | WA |
Department of Infrastructure and Transport | SA |
City of Whittlesea | VIC |
VLC | VIC |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
City of Melbourne | VIC |
AECOM | QLD |
Bitzios Consulting | QLD |
Transport for NSW | NSW |
SCT Consulting | NSW |
Arcadis | NSW |
SMEC | VIC |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
Ipswich City Council | QLD |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
Main Roads Western Australia | WA |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
Indesco | ACT |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
ACT Government Transport Canberra City Services (TCCS) | NSW |
RTSM Consulting | WA |
Translink, TMR | QLD |
City of Hobart | TAS |
Department of Transport and Main Roads | QLD |
City of Playford | SA |
TTM Consulting Pty Ltd | QLD |
City of Gold Coast | QLD |
Jacobs | VIC |
City of Onkaparinga | SA |
Arcadis Australia Pacific | QLD |
Spatial Ascent Pty Ltd | NSW |
Busways North West Pty Ltd | NSW |
Active City Pty Ltd | VIC |
Brisbane City Council | QLD |
University of Tasmania | TAS |
Mott MacDonald | SA |
AECOM | SA |
City of Moreton Bay | QLD |