Tuesday
27 May 2003
9:00 Opening Session
» Opening Address - John Stott,
Chief Executive, State Transit Authority of NSW, Sydney Australia
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9:30 Session 1: Keynote Address
» Making
Urban Transit Systems Sustainable Around the World: Progress in
Mexico City - Lee Schipper, Co-Director, EMBARQ, World
Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA
Morning break
11:00 Session 2: Public Transport Developments
:: Latest in regional transit regulation
and revenue sharing
:: Trends and progress with new bus rapid transit
initiatives including Australia and New Zealand
:: New technologies for transit
» Performance-Based
Quality Contracts in Bus Service Provision: The Nucleus of Reform
– Prof David Hensher, Director, Institute of Transport Studies,
Sydney University, Sydney Australia and John Stanley, Executive
Director, Bus Association of Victoria, Melbourne Australia
» Brisbane’s
new Bus initiatives and Busway Program - Government Agencies in
partnership – Ken Deutscher, Manager Transport
and Traffic, Brisbane City Council, and Jurgen Pasieczny, Busway
Manager, Queensland Transport, Brisbane Australia
» Planning
& building a busway in Auckland’s public transport vacuum
- Councillor Joel Cayford PhD, Chair Works & Environment,
North Shore City Council, Auckland New Zealand
Lunch
1:30 Session 3: Designing Transit Services to meet Market
Needs
:: New approaches for low density suburbs
:: Network approach to delivering frequency &
regional coverage
:: Service standards
:: Modal roles
:: UK experience with bus system improvements
» Designing
transit services to meet present & future market needs
- Dick Fleming, Principal Public Transport Planner, Parsons
Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Ltd, and George Pund Acting Director,
Bus and Ferry Reform, Transport Coordination Authority of NSW,
Sydney, Australia NEW!
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» Quality
Bus Corridors in Greater Manchester - Barry Gyte, Director,
GCI Consultants, Brisbane, Australia
» State Transit's Better Buses Program
- Lyall Kennedy, Director, Business Development, State Transit
Authority of NSW, Sydney Australia NEW!
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» Changing
perceptions of public transport with Real-Time Passenger Information
– Robert Burke, Managing Director, ConnexioNZ, Christchurch
New Zealand
Afternoon break
3:30 Session 4: Developments
in Transit Infrastructure & Vehicles
:: New developments in advanced vehicles
:: Infrastructure design, operational and maintenance
issues
:: New directions in rapid transit architecture
:: Comfort, safety,
security – what passengers want
» Transitway
infrastructure design – Steve Warrell, Manager,
Transitways Roads & Traffic Authority, Sydney Australia
» Melbourne
SMARTBUS and Adelaide SMART Stops - Des Dent, Engineering
Manager Traffic and Transport, Tyco Safety Products, Sydney Australia
and Jack Turner, Manager, Ticketing and Radio, Passenger Transport
Board, Adelaide South Australia and Graeme Vellacott Public Transport
Division Department of Infrastructure, Melbourne Victoria
» Lessons learned from Brisbane’s
South East busway - Jurgen Pasieczny, Queensland Transport,
Brisbane Australia
» A
comparison between recent bus infrastructure developments and
user needs – Graeme Currie, Senior Associate, Booz
Allen & Hamilton, Melbourne Australia
5:30 Happy Hour
7:30 Conference dinner
Wednesday 28 May 2003
8:30 Session 5: Integration
of Transit Services – integrated fare collection
:: New institutional models
:: Integrated transit services – role of
smart cards
:: Branding issues
:: Role of passenger information/ terminal design
:: Objectives and Performance Indicators for
Integrated Transit
» Developments
in Integration in South East Queensland - Mick McShea,
General Manager, TransLink (Queensland Transport), Brisbane, Australia
» Integrated
Transit - Prof Luis Ferreira, Chair of Transport, Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
» A
Smartcard based ticketing system for transport in the Sydney region
– John Armstrong, Project Director, Integrated Ticketing
Project, NSW Transport Coordination Authority, and Richard Fleming,
Managing Director, ERG Card Systems, Sydney Australia
Morning break
10:30 Session 6: Intelligent
Transit Systems
:: New advanced arterial road bus priority technology
:: Passenger information systems
:: Vehicle dispatch and fleet management
:: Transit security and surveillance
:: Integrated transport information for pre-trip
planning
» Keynote Speaker: European
Transport & Technology Trends - Kevin Borras, Editor,
Traffic Technology International, United Kingdom
» ITS
Control System for Brisbane’s Contra Flow and Bus Lane Project
– Trevor Bate, Technical Manager, SAAB ITS, Brisbane
» Safety
and integrity assurance for mission critical ITS solutions
– Greg Smith, Business Development and Marketing Manager,
Ripple Systems, Perth Australia
» PTIPS
- electronic bus priority trial in Sydney - Tom Van Drempt,
Traffic Engineer, State Transit Authority of NSW, and Geoff Lake,
Public Transport Systems Manager, Roads & Traffic Authority
of NSW, Sydney Australia
» Intelligent
Transport Systems: Transitways for Sydney - Philip Mallon,
Manager Intelligent Transport Systems Projects, Roads & Traffic
Authority of NSW and Dr Le Nguyen, Project Manager, Liverpool
to Parramatta Transitway Intelligent Transport System, Roads &
Traffic Authority of NSW and Ross Whowell, Senior Intelligent
Transport and Information Technology Consultant and Project Manager
for APP Technology Management Pty Ltd and David Mee, Deputy Manager,
Intelligent Systems Group, ALSTOM, Sydney Australia
Lunch
1:30 Session 7: Land use
– transit integration and urban design
»
Role of Urban design – creating a high quality public realm
» From plans & policies to high quality
outcomes
» Partnerships- with local government,
major generators
» Transit-supportive developments –
fact or fiction?
» Keynote Speaker: TransMilenio:
A High Capacity – Low Cost Bus Rapid Transit System developed
for Bogotá, Colombia - Ms Angelica Castro, General
Manager, TransMilenio SA, Columbia
» Redevelopment
approach to key sites in the Sydney Transitway corridor
– Matt Faber, Manager Planning & Operations, Transitways
Roads & Traffic Authority, Sydney Australia
» Integrating
the Priorities of a Place, with Those of a Public Transport System
– a Brief Case Study – Steve Kerr, Parramatta
City Council, Parramatta Australia NEW!
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» Integrative
framework for transit systems development - Alan Hoffman,
The Mission Group, San Diego USA
Afternoon break
3:30 Session 8: Panel Discussion
» Summing up – lessons learned
– Expert Panel
4:30 Close of Conference
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