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How do Australia’s major cities deal with choking traffic congestion? Do tolls work? Does Sydney really need a second airport? How do governments cope with the mounting financial burden of providing acceptable transport infrastructure?
Transport is integral to life in Australia but it is also expensive, complex and highly controversial. This year, the University of Sydney Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies will host another Leadership and Policy Seminar Series.This seminar series brings together the nation’s transport leaders and will address the major transport challenges of our time. The seminars will begin in the first week of February.
Seminars will be held in the Lecture Theatre 2 (Room 112, Level 1), St James Campus, The University of Sydney. The street address of the St James Campus is 173-175 Phillip St., Sydney 2000.
They will normally be held fortnightly on Tuesdays, 11.00 am – noon.
Seminars for the first half of the year are:
Tuesday 5 February – Nick Greiner, chairman, Infrastructure NSW on “Infrastructure NSW: A chairman’s view”
Tuesday 19 February – Michael Kilgariff, CEO, Australian Logistics Council on “Boosting productivity through supply chain efficiency”
Tuesday 5 March – John Morandini, author of “Watch the road” on “Transport policy in large cities: from mediocrity to mentor”
Tuesday 19 March – Charlie Macdonald, manufacturing, transport & logistics executive, Telstra, on “The next airport generation and the importance of IT/Telco apps” (tbc)
Tuesday 9 April - Professor Mark Wardman, Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK on “Business travel value of time savings: so what did Hensher do for Europe?”
Tuesday 23 April – Deborah Cameron, project director, KJA Communications. Title tbc.
Tuesday 7 May – Kerrie Mather, CEOSydneyAirport on “The future of SydneyAirport” (tbc)
Tuesday 21 May – David Asteraki, director infrastructure KPMG on “Financing Australian PPP projects in the global financial crisis” (tbc)
Tuesday 18 June – Professor Michiel Bliemer, ITLS, University of Sydney on “Road pricing reform: a simple, fair, publicly acceptable, and revenue-neutral distance-based discounting strategy”
