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Session 4 - Advanced Technology in Action
Andrew McKindlay
Siemens Ltd, Sydney :: Solutions & Technologies to Address Challenges in Road Transport
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Session 5 - Future Vision for Mobility
Dennis Walsh
Department of Main Roads, Brisbane :: Traffic Operations ITS Priorities for Australia
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Session 6 - New Developments in Tolling & Charging
Jack Opiola
Booz Allen Hamilton, London UK :: Future Vision of Mobility - New Developments in Tolling and Charging
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Session 7 - Delivering Charging & Technology Solutions
Jack Opiola
Booz Allen Hamilton, London UK :: Delivering Charging and Technology Solutions - Tackling Congestion
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Tuesday 22 August 2006

Session 1: Tomorrow’s Transport 2015:
An international perspective of congestion, technology and policy context

• Move to national road pricing in UK

Keynote speaker: Ian Drummond, Road Pricing Framework Division, Department for Transport, United Kingdom

Session 2: Australia’s Mobility Challenges

• Congestion costs update for Australian cities
• Congestion impact on industry
• Policy directions and impacts of congestion

Speakers:
Dr David Gargett, Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, Canberra
Prof Peter Stopher, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney
Dr Nariida Smith, Meyrick & Associates, Sydney

Session 3: Setting the Right Framework

• Role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and theory of risk allocation
• Improvement in ciontract design for PPPs
• Pricing of value for money motoring
• External benefits/ Local government view
• Tolling & charging – privacy & security/ packaging for public acceptance

Speakers:
Professor John Quiggin, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Rahoul Ray, Technical Director, Booz Allen Hamilton, Brisbane
Garry Bowditch, Project Director, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, Sydney
Andrew Body, Director - Transportation, Hyder Consulting (NZ) Ltd, New Zealand

Session 4: Advanced Technology in Action

• International roundup on latest technologies
• Integrated traffic control, incident management & information
• Traveller information & advanced vehicles
• Urban electronic avoidance service for Australia
• Road traffic ITS priorities based on research
• Case Studies: Motorway TMCs, mobility centres, toll road networks

Speakers:
Andrew McKindlay, Siemens Ltd, Sydney
Brian Smith, Intelematics, Melbourne
Dr Jodi Steel, National ICT Australia, Sydney

 

Wednesday 23 August 2006

Session 5: Future Vision for Mobility

• Traffic specific ITS priorities for Australia – a road agency perspective

Keynote Speaker: Dennis Walsh, Executive Director (Planning Design and Operations), Department of Main Roads, Brisbane

Session 6: New Developments in Tolling & Charging

"Future vision for mobility"

• Free-flow tolling over barrier systems.
• New electronic payment systems
• Changing toll roads to manage demand
• New international developments - the USA VII program
• Network-wide tolling for freight vehicles
• Emerging technologies - GPS charging, advanced DSRC and Smart Plate in Japan

Keynote speaker:
Jack Opiola, Booz Allen Hamilton, UK

Speaker:
Tsuneo Ono, ITS Planning, Denso Corp, Japan
Norman Pidgeon, Intelligent Transport Solutions, Transurban Ltd, Sydney

Session 7: Delivering Charging & Technology Solutions

• Partnerships & alliances, New business models – traveller information & location based services
• Risk management, standards & cooperation
• Best practice in ITS deployment, ITS underpinning applications – mapping, communications, location-based services
• Case Study: London Congestion Charge/UK lorry trial case study
• Case Study: TollCollect heavy vehicle charging, German satellite based road charging initiative
• Case Study: ITS and the Westlink M7 Sydney Orbital Motorway

Speakers:
Jack Opiola, Booz Allen Hamilton, UK
Klaus Albert, Strategic Projects and Partnerships, Deutsche Telekom, Singapore
David Mee, United Group Infrastructure, Sydney

Session 8: Safety, Security and Incident ManagementNeeds

• Strategies for dealing with congestion and travel time reliability
• Improved information sharing across public and private sectors
• Better risk assessments to guide policy making
• Integration of security with strategy formation to improve the business assurance of the owner / operators of critical transport infrastructure

Speakers:
Richard Hodge, Booz Allen Hamilton, Canberra
Prof Phil Charles, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Session 9: Developing Effective Strategies – roundtable debate

• Panel Session