Manager Land Transport Demand
Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources Tasmania
10 Murray St
Hobart Tas 7000 |
| Elizabeth
works in the Policy Division of the Department of Infrastructure and Energy
Resources in Tasmania. Her background is in architecture and public policy.
She is a project director for the Intelligent Access Project which has
been managed in Tasmania so far and looking at extending into Queensland. |
Principal, Sinclair Knight Merz
590 Orrong Rd
Armadale Victoria 3143 Australia
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Previously Deputy Managing Director of The MVA Consultancy in London,
David's transport planning experience encompasses road, rail (light, heavy
and high speed), bus/coach and aviation. For 10 years he was the Director
of the London Transport Studies Group on behalf of the UK Department of
Transport. He is an international expert in transportation modelling.
David has been advisor to Transfund New Zealand, the roads funding agency,
since 1997 (on project appraisal and a range of strategic planning and
policy matters) and he is Technical Advisor to Auckland Regional Council.
He has also advised Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch Regional Councils
on modelling and transport strategy development, in which studies the
role of road pricing was considered. |
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Director,
Economic and Policy Services
PO Box 448
North Adelaide South Australia 5005
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| David
Bray is the principal of Economic and Policy Services Pty Ltd. He holds
degrees in economics and engineering, has worked as a consultant for over
20 years and, previously, for South Australian Government transport agencies.
His work experience, which has mostly been in the transport and urban
development sectors, spans technical analysis, strategy development, policy
formulation and analysis, and institutional development. He has worked
in most states and territories in Australia, and in seventeen overseas
countries in Asia, the Pacific and Europe. In Australia he chaired the
former National Transport Policy Framework’s Urban Transport and Congestion
Management Working Groups. |
Business Sector Manager, Transport
PPK Environment & Infrastructure
PPK House, 9 Blaxland Road
Rhodes New South Wales 2138 Australia
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| Piers
Brogan is Business Sector Manager, Transport of the consultants PPK Environment
& Infrastructure Pty Ltd. He is responsible for the development of the
transport business of the company nationally and in Asia. In 1999 he was
a member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, Sustainable Energy
Transport Task Force which produced a report 'Sustainable Transport: Responding
to Challenges', which was endorsed by the Institution and is expected
to be published in early 2000. Formerly he was the Managing Director of
consultants Travers Morgan International Ltd and director of its several
subsidiary companies. He was also the founding Managing Director of Travers
Morgan Pty Ltd, the boutique transport planning and economics consultancy
in Australia. Piers is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia,
a Fellow of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Transport and a Member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute.
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Director, Centre for Transport
Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia |
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Prof
Charles commenced at the University of Queensland in October 1998 coming
from a broad experience in transport strategy roles, as a consultant at
Booz Allen & Hamilton, and as a senior manager at Main Roads WA, NSW Roads
and Traffic Authority and AUSTROADS.
He has been responsible for transport strategy and policy initiatives
nationally, and in NSW, WA and Qld and has expertise and experience in
transport strategy development, including infrastructure development and
management, intelligent transport systems and road safety & traffic management.
Phil has a particular interest in strategic analysis and futures scanning;
stakeholder interaction; institutional development (organisational diagnostics
and restructuring, implementation planning, competitive tendering and
contracting and professional capability development) and commercial aspects
of transport technology, including public private partnerships.
He has graduate and postgraduate qualifications in engineering, public
and business management. |
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Senior Manager, Road Pricing & Public Transport
Vehicle & Transit Licensing Division
Land Transport Authority
10 Sin Ming Drive
Singapore 575701
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Chin Kian-Keong received his PhD from the University of Leeds, UK in 1996
for his research on transport modelling. An engineer by training, he has
been involved in the planning, design, implementing and construction of
various road and traffic management projects in Singapore. He is now the
Senior Manager of Road Pricing & Public Transport at Singapore’s Land
Transport Authority and was intimately involved in the implementation
of the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system, which started full-scale
operations in Sept 98. He has presented and published several papers at
conferences and technical journals over the past years. |
Senior Civil Engineer, Urban Projects Division,
EgisGroup
11, avenue du Centre
Saint Quentin en Yvelines
78286 Guyancourt Cedex
France |
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Michel
Croc is a Senior Civil Engineer with more than 25 years of experience
gained in a range of highway engineering and other transportation projects
(transit, public transportation, harbours, airports) and specialises in
project management and government services and expertise. He has postgraduate
qualifications in general and applied sciences and civil engineering.
He has been in charge of each of the roles played in developing transportation
facilities, including preliminary and feasibility studies, design, job
supervision, assistance to local government in building public-private
partnership projects (toll tunnel, car parks).
He has particular experience in providing technical assistance for urban
planning, and organisation of complex public-private partnerships.
Examples of recent projects that Michel has been involved include:
- Feasibility of a global road-pricing system for the Paris area
- Preliminary schemes for global value charging of transportation services
(including highways) in several medium size cities
- Technical assistance to the contractor for the Build-Operate-Transfer
(BOT) project of the Rouen Light Rail
- Organisation on behalf of the City of Marseilles of the BOT for several
car parks
- Organisation on behalf of the City of Marseilles of the BOT for the
Prado Carénage toll tunnel (obtain the central government authorisations,
organise the public-private partnership, write the tender documents, supervise
the competition, analyse the bids and recommend the choice, and supervise
implementation up to commissioning) |
Engineering Manager, Transcore Australia
PO Box 65
Archerfield Queensland 4108 Australia |
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Des
Dent is currently supervising the installation of electronic tolling systems
in Australia and South East Asia. He has 40 years experience in the ITS
industry and has specialised in the application of computers to transport
engineering. After graduating in Electrical Engineering he joined MRDQ
where he was instrumental in the installation of the first computer controlled
traffic system in Australia (Surfers Paradise) in 1969. As Regional and
Operations Manager for PPK Consultants for 14 years, he managed large
ITS projects in Australia and South East Asia for the World Bank and AusAid,
and for several years was Ministerial adviser on transport in the Philippines.
In 1998/9 he was involved in the design and commissioing of the Transport
Management Centre for the RTA, which is a state of the art system. He
is currently consulting to Motorway owners in Sydney on ETC transponder
compatability. |
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Professor George Docwra |
Department of Economics
University of Queensland
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia |
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| George's
teaching and research interests are in the areas of micro economic theory
and policy; transport and public utility economics; industrial organisation;
and the economics of regulation and competition policy. He was senior
economics advisor to the Inter-State Commission from 1985 to 1987 and
contributed to the Commission's initial Report on the Tasmanian Freight
Equalisation Scheme and 1986 Report on Cost Recovery Arrangements for
Interstate Land Transport. He has also acted as a consultant on transport
and infrastructure issues to a number of federal, state and local government
agencies. |
Senior Transport Specialist
Transport Sector Unit
East Asia and Pacific Region
The World Bank
1818 H Street NW
Washington DC 20433
USA
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| Ed
is a senior urban transport specialist in the Transport Sector Unit, East
Asia and Pacific Region at the World Bank in Washington DC. Prior to joining
the bank in 1992, he was based in Melbourne where he was a senior transport
executive with the Victorian Government. Prior to moving to Melbourne
he had been a consultant for many years, initially starting work with
Colin Buchanan in the United Kingdom. |
General Manager (Strategic Policy and Development)
Main Roads Queensland
Level 17, Capital Hill Building
85 George Street
Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia |
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With a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts, Neil also holds qualifications
in management, industrial relations and human resources. Prior to being
appointed General Manager (Strategic Policy and Development), Neil was
General Manager (Corporate Services) in Main Roads and previously Executive
Director (Infrastructure Development) and later Acting Deputy Director-General
(Policy) with Queensland Transport. He has more than 25 years senior executive
experience in Telecom, Australia Post, Queensland Transport and Main Roads,
in diverse areas of responsibility. Neil is the Chairman of ARRB Transport
Research Ltd, the Australian representative on the PIARC Technical Committee
(C10) on Urban Areas and Integrated Urban Transport and also the International
Road Federation (IRF) Asian Region representative for the Scientific Committee
concerned with socio-economic themes. Neil is a fellow of the Australian
Insitute of Management and a Fellor of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
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Deputy Executive Director - Land and Environment
Bureau of Transport Economics
GPO Box 501
Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2601
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BTE is the division that carries out applied economic research within
the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services. Dr Harvey
has Bachelor of Economics (honours) and PhD degrees in economics from
the University of Queensland. He joined the Federal Department of Transport
in 1987 working in the Maritime Policy Division and moved to the BTE in
1989. During his time at the BTE he has undertaken research on all modes
of transport, but primarily on road and rail issues. Dr Harvey also teaches
cost-benefit analysis at the Australian National University. |
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Chairman, National Road Transport Commission
PO Box 13105 Law Courts
Melbourne Victoria 8010 Australia
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| Stuart
Hicks was educated at Monash University and at the University of NSW,
where he was a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scholar in Transport.
An opportunity to play a key part on the commercial reform of Westrail
took him to Western Australia in 1977, where he has lived ever since.
After 6 years as Chairman and Chief Executive of the bus operation, TransPerth,
he served for a further six years as Western Australia's Director-General
of Transport, retiring in 1996. He has been closely involved with the
National Road Transport Commission since its inception and was appointed
Chairperson in 1997. |
Executive
Director (Strategic Policy)
Main Roads Queensland
Level 17, Capital Hill Building
85 George Street
Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia |
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Since
commencing employment with the Queensland Department of Main Roads in
1987, Colin has worked in various engineering and executive positions
in the fields of Urban Planning, Transport Modelling, Strategic Planning,
Road Program Development, Strategy Development and Policy.
Colin is heavily involved with ITS both internationally and domestically
on behalf of the Queensland Department of Main Roads. Currently, he is
the Vice President of ITS Australia, Chair of ITS Asia-Pacific, a Member
of the World Congress on ITS Board of Directors and International Program
Committee, and Chair of the Organising Committee for the 8th World Congress
on ITS which will be held in Sydney, Australia from 1-5 October 2001.
Colin's current role with the Queensland Department of Main Roads is as
the Executive Director of Strategic Policy, where he identifies and sets
the strategic direction for policy in response to Government, industry
and community needs. |
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Research Programme Manager
Centre for Traffic and Transport Research
Technical University of Denmark
Building 115 2800 Lyngby Denmark
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| Dr.
Jan Kildebogaard is Associate Research Professor and Research Manager
at the Centre for Traffic and Transport Research at the Technical University
of Denmark. He is in charge of a research programme on distance-dependant
road pricing financed by the Danish Ministry of Transport and the Transport
Council. His specialisation is in traffic engineering and ITS, and until
1995 he was with the Danish Road Directorate where his last position was
Director of Traffic Unit. He has been a member of a number of international
committees on ITS within OECD, PIARC and the European Commission. Since
the EU DRIVE Programme was initiated in 1988, he has been a national representative
of the steering committee and the subsequent working parties in the Telematics
Application Programme. |
Dr
Owen Mace
Senior Consultant
Aspect Computing
290 Glen Osmond Rd,
Fullarton South Australia 5063 |
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Owen Mace is a senior consultant with Aspect Computing Pty Ltd. Aspect
is a large Australian software company of 1,300 people specialising in
business information technology solutions. Owen is interested in Intelligent
Transport Systems and has participated in delivering a number of transport
systems. Formerly he was senior lecturer at the Royal Australian Air Force
Academy of the University of Melbourne where he lectured Physics and Engineering
subjects to officer cadets. His research interests included gamma ray
astronomy and atmospheric research using an acoustic radar. Owen has a
PhD in Physics and bachelor of Electronic Engineering from the University
of Melbourne. |
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Manager, Public Transport Development
Auckland City Council
Private Bag 92516
Wellesley Street
Auckland 1036 New Zealand
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| Roger
Matthews is the Manager of Public Transport Development at the Auckland
City Council. In this role he has been responsible for co-ordinating Auckland
City's input into the New Zealand Government's road reform and road pricing
proposals since late 1995. Previous to this, Roger was the Auckland City's
Environmental Planning Manager. Roger has been involved in environmental
management and public policy in New Zealand since 1979. |
Director,
Research and Policy
Australian Automobile Association
GPO Box 1555
Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2601 |
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John has been with the AAA for 8 years where he is responsible for policy
development and submissions to the Federal Government on transport related
issues. These include road funding, charging and taxation; road safety;
and the environment. Prior to joining AAA, John was a senior executive
in a number of Commonwealth Government policy departnments and research
institutions covering transport, communications and industry policy issues.
John holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the Australian National
University. |
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Project Manager
Hong Kong Feasibility Study for ERP Wilbur Smith - Hyder
Wilbur Smith Associates
18th Floor, Kowloon Building
555 Nathen Road
Kowloon, Hong Kong
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John
A.A. (Jack) Opiola is the Project Manager for the Hong Kong Feasibility
Study for Electronic Road Pricing that began in March 1997. Jack is
a graduate engineer of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New
York. He received his Operations Research/Systems Analysis Degree from
the University of Texas at El Paso and his MBA from Columbia University
in New York City. Jack also holds both a certificate for Project Management
from the Defence System Management College, the US Department of Defence
premiere project management course, and is a certified project manager
from PMI, the Project Management Institute, an international organization.
Jack’s project management background originates with US Department of
Defence projects where he managed advance technology projects in artificial
Intelligence, robotics, communications, new generation sensors and command
and control systems. He chaired a sub-committee of the DoD Strategic
Advance Research (STAR) committee in 1985. Jack applied his advance
research experience to a varied mix of projects including manufacturing
process control, construction, and commercial command and control systems
for municipal police and fire departments. With over twelve years of
transport experience, Jack has designed electronic toll collection,
operations and maintenance systems for several toll authorities in the
United States including the first modern privatised toll road in the
USA, the Dulles Greenway outside Washington D.C. He also consulted,
designed and installed ITS applications in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey
and Colorado prior to being assigned to the Hong Kong ERP Project. He
is currently also involved with the New Zealand Transport Information
System Feasibility Project for Transfund New Zealand as the Technology
Manager.
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PPK Environment & Infrastructure Pty Ltd
12th Floor, IBM Centre
348 Edward St
Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia
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| David
Overington has over 20 years’ experience in the transport sector and holds
the position of Principal Transport Consultant with PPK Environment and
Infrastructure, based in Brisbane. David has undertaken public transport
consultancy assignments throughout Australia and New Zealand and a number
of World Bank funded public transport projects in China, India, Turkey
and Indonesia. He has hands-on management experience in both managing
consulting teams on assignments and from managing a public sector owned
transport business. |
Senior Associate Director
Project Finance and Advisory Division
Deutsche Bank
Level 18, 225 George Street
Sydney New South Wales 2000 Australia
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Cameron specialises in providing financial advice and arranging debt finance
for sponsors who develop and acquire infrastructure projects. Recently
Cameron has been involved in acquiring or financing assets with the involvement
of private sector debt and equity in the utilities, rail, airport, port
and road sectors both in Australia and internationally. Cameron has been
part of a team at Deutsche Bank that has successfully advised on and arranged
finance for projects worth over $A15 billion in the last few years. |
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Program Manager
Australian Local Government Association
8 Geils Court
Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2606
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| Peter
Rufford has thirty years experience in highway, transport and infrastructure
planning in both the public and private sectors. He has had key roles
in a number of significant highway and road network planning studies throughout
Australia and in China (for the World Bank). He has worked for the NT
Department of Transport and Works, the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority,
the consultants Travers Morgan Australia and is currently a consultant
to the Australian Local Government Association on national road and transport
policy. |
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Research Director
Department of the Environment, Transport & the Regions
Charging & Local Transport Division
Room 3/08A, Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DR United Kingdom
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| Eric
trained as a Chemist and worked at the Science and Engineering Research
Council on research and training support in Chemistry, Control Engineering
and Computing Science. He was Private Secretary to the SERC Chairman,
Head of the Management Services Group, then Head of Finance and International
Facilities, including a spell seconded to the Anglo-French-German research
reactor at Grenoble. Eric joined the Department of Transport in 1985 and
was initially posted to the Marine Directorate. He then moved to Public
Transport looking after international coach services, taxis & PHVs and
London buses. He was appointed the Research Coordinator for the Directorate
of Network Management and Maintenance and then Deputy Chief Scientist
where he was the UK lead negotiator for the EC Framework Programme on
Telematics for Transport. Eric moved to Railways Directorate in 1995 as
Marketing Director for the privatisation of British Rail and had oversight
of the advertising campaign for the flotation of Railtrack. After the
completion of the rail sales Eric carried out an exercise for the Coastguard
Agency to review the clean-up operation following the SEA EMPRESS oil
spill before being loaned to the British Council's Kyiv office as a Technology
and Science Management Consultant. He wrote a Technology Foresight plan
for Ukraine and initiated a programme of science and engineering exchange
visits with the UK. Eric returned to DoT (now DETR - the Department for
the Environment, Transport and the Regions) in 1997 as Director of a major
programme of Road User Charging research In 1992 Eric set up the UK planning
group that evolved into the ITS Focus. In 1993 he was the DETR delegate
to the study group that led to the formation of ERTICO and was elected
first to the ERTICO Supervisory Board, then its Deputy Chairman and then
its Chairman. He was the first Chairman of the World Congress Board, in
which capacity he was responsible for the organisation of the first World
Congress in Paris in 1994. |
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Director, Policy Appraisal Services
PO Box 3224
South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia
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| Philip
Sayeg has specialised in transport planning, traffic control and related
management issues for over 25 years since graduation. Clients have included
all levels of government in Australia, foreign governments, international
organisations and private companies. He has held advisory positions to
senior public officials in Asia and has lived and worked in Asia (12 countries)
for 10 of the past 15 years. As a former director of a large Australian
consulting company, he managed their Thailand operations for three years
after which he established his own firm in Bangkok. He returned to Brisbane
in 1995 to establish Policy Appraisal Services Lty Ltd.. He maintains
close connections with his Asian colleagues, works part-time with the
World Bank as a staff consultant for Fiji, Indonesia and Thailand, and
numerous other international clients, as well as doing Australian-based
work. For a number of years, Phil Sayeg has specialised in studies relating
to: Asia’s urban and regional commercial fleet operations; Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) and market needs; and environmental issues
related to transport. In conjunction with Phil Charles, he established
Transport Roundtable Australasia (TRA) in 1999, the organiser of this
ERP conference. The aim of TRA is to promote the development of knowledge
and expertise in transport policy and strategy. |
Transit & Transport Solutions
Motherwell Information Systems
Perth, Western Australia |
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| Gregory
J Smith is a qualified systems engineer with over 25 years experience
in data collection and real time control software. He designed major software
systems and product developments, and in the last 5 years has been involved
in projects for integrated smartcard ticketing, traffic management and
e-commerce. He is currently employed by Motherwell Information Systems
and is involved in the design of software architectures, software project
estimation, and introduction of software project management methodologies.
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Transport Research Institute
Napier University, Edinburgh, UK; and
Principal, Oxford Systematics
GPO Box 126
Heidelberg Victoria 3084 Australia
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Wigan has worked on road pricing since the late 1960's at the UK TRL,
where he developed a full network modelling system for road pricing and
environmental impact used by the UK Department of Environment for road
pricing and parking policy. subsequently responsible for large scale surveys
and testing of pricing polices for freight as the Principal Planner for
Freight at the Greater London Council. Currently holds a Professorship
at the TRI and an honorary fellowship in GIS at Monash: previous appointments
include Visiting Professor of Transport Management at the University of
Sydney, Chief Scientist at ARRB, and Head of the Department of Computing
and Quantitative Methods at Deakin University. An active member of the
Australian Computer Society's Economic Legal and Social Implications Committee
and the ACS Ethics task force, he has published and advised on privacy,
surveillance and data ownership to the US DoT and organisations in Australia.
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Director
(Transport Economics & Strategy)
Queensland Transport
GPO Box 1549
Brisbane Queensland 4001 Australia |
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Alan formerly lectured in micro economics and transport economics at the
Queensland University of technology for 26 years. He has been a long standing
member of the Economic Society of Australia and a fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Transport in Australia. Understandably one of his research
interest is the funding of transport infrastructure. |
