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The Hub is the place where integrated transport meets. News, views and insights on infrastructure and integrated transport issues brought to you by Roads Australia.
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Listen in as Roads Australia’s 2023 PPP Award Winner, Fiona McDonald, discusses findings from her research report “Innovation: An Emerging Leader’s Perspective”. In 2023, Fiona was awarded the PPP Award, which recognises an emerging leader who displays the values of promise, passion, and pursuit. In this podcast, she is joined by Alex Berry from McConnell Dowell and Craig Hugo of GHD, who both participated in her research to support the development of the final report. Fiona works for Transp...
Listen in for the second episode of our two-part series focusing on the economic empowerment of women in the transport sector in the lead-up to International Women’s Day. In this episode, you’ll hear from Tricia Malowney OAM – Chief Accessibility Advocate at Victoria's Department of Transport and Planning, among many other roles. Tricia shares incredible insights from a lifetime of advocacy and the importance of creating transport networks that are accessible for individuals with a disa...
Listen in for the first of a two-part series focusing on the economic empowerment of women in the transport sector in the lead-up to International Women’s Day. In this episode, you’ll hear from Heather Jones – Founder of Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls Group. Heather is living this year’s IWD theme of economic empowerment every day, providing incredible opportunities for women in the transport sector and drawing on her incredible story to support women grasp new opportunities.
In this episode of The Hub hear from Peter Dourlein Global Asset Management Director, Arcadis, as he discusses all things asset management with Verity Turner, Environment and Planning Director, Transurban and Deputy Chair of RA's Future Leaders Committee. Peter's passion for a more sustainable transport future shines through as he outlines how our industry can do more with less in a tough economic environment.
November 9 marked Road Worker Day of Remembrance, an opportunity to reflect on and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives while working on our road network. Roads Australia is proud to support this initiative, as a principal partner of the Safer Australian Roads and Highways (SARAH) Group and we remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting measures that lead to improved safety outcomes for road workers. With this recent date in mind and the launch of the Australian Work Zone Memor...
Listen in to this exciting new episode of The Hub and hear from Jose Luis Blasco – Global CEO, ACCIONA Carbon Technologies. Following the recent launch of the Infrastructure Net Zero Initiative, Independent Chair, Nicole Lockwood, sat down with Jose Luis when he was in Australia recently to discuss all things infrastructure decarbonisation, from carbon pricing, lessons from across Europe and the opportunities to shape a more sustainable transport future. This is a great chance to hear first...
Decarbonising transport is a crucial part of Australia's journey to a zero-emission future. In this episode hear from GHD Queensland Market Leader Mia Barnard about the opportunities and solutions available to work towards this goal in the future. Alongside Mia, GHD Fleet Decarbonisation Lead, Rippan Bhattacharjee, discusses the challenges faced with the decarbonisation of heavy vehicles and GHD's fleet decarbonisation efforts in Canada.
In December 2022, RA released the Procurement Reform Report Update: Momentum for a sustainable transport sector This summary of a panel discussion at RA's 2023 Transport Summit includes perspectives from both government and industry that highlight progress on procurement reform to date. Panellists discussed the current economic climate and how governments, industry and the community can get the best possible return from transport infrastructure projects. Speakers in this episode: - Scott Ols...
We’re excited to bring you this podcast featuring RA's inspiring 2022 and 2023 Emerging Leader PPP winners. This annual award is presented to a leader who displays the values of Promise, Passion and Pursuit within the transport industry. In this episode you'll hear from: - 2022 PPP Award Winner: John Hallam, Associate Director - Infrastructure Advisory Group - 2023 PPP Award Winner: Fiona McDonald, Senior Manager Inter Government Relations, Industry Engagement & Development, Infrastructu...
This episode is the second in our series of panel discussion summaries from RA’s Transport Summit held earlier in the year. This episode is focused on sustainability and the opportunities that exist to utilise circular economy principles across the transport and infrastructure sectors, while also considering potential policy shifts to continue supporting the decarbonisation journey of the industry. Speakers: - Nicole Neal, Chief Executive – Australia, Tonkin + Taylor - Alexandra Monson, Grou...
As part of RA’s Transport Summit five panel discussions were held on some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the transport industry. We are excited to share snippets of these informative discussions, with leaders in their respective fields bouncing ideas off one another, sharing innovative ideas and highlighting the opportunities that exist across the transport sector. In his episode, we’ll bring you some of the perspectives that were shared in the first of these panel d...
Data offers a world of opportunity to underpin the delivery of transport services that are more aligned with customer experiences. When it comes to the management of transport infrastructure and assets, data is a powerful tool that lets us plan and deliver those activities more effectively. However, all of this relies on interoperability. If systems can’t ‘talk’ to each other, we will miss out on productivity, safety and customer experience benefits. And that’s where data standards come in. T...
Decarbonisation is at the forefront of plenty of design conversations in the transport sector today. But there are still some industry participants unsure of where and how to get started, because they don't feel they have the right tools to start driving change in the way they do business. Following on from his recent article in RA Insider, we're joined by Ken Lunty, Technical Director, Arcadis Australia and his colleague Nicole Liang to explore implementing a holistic approach t...
Recently, RA held a series of networking events in all state capitals in support of International Women's Day 2023 and its theme, embrace equity. In this episode, we're bringing you some of the perspectives that were shared by our keynote speakers and panel members at those events. This is not an exhaustive representation of everything that was said by every speaker at every event. Rather, we're hoping to provide listeners with a snapshot of some different views and ideas put forward about w...
RA sits down for a conversation with Belinda Virant, Managing Director – Transportation, Arcadis Australia. Belinda discusses how her own career journey and perspectives are fueling her passion for creating a more sustainable transport sector and enhancing workforce culture. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
This episode spotlights a case competition hosted by RA member SYSTRA ANZ for University of NSW students, in partnership with the UNSW Women in Engineering Society. Meet some of those involved in this year's competition - as competitors, as organisers and as judges. Learn how taking part in the competition has provided students with mentoring opportunities that have helped them as they embark on their own careers in engineering. You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spo...
We chat with our two most recent PPP Award winners about their career backgrounds, the importance of mentoring and their priorities for change in the industry. Rezarta Rushitaj, Principal Highways Engineer and ANZ Technical Practice Leader – Highways, AECOM and John Hallam, Business Development Lead, Laing O’Rourke joined us to discuss what motivates them in their roles, how they have leaned on mentors to help them navigate challenges over the course of their careers and explore ways our ind...
Attracting and retaining the best pool of talent relies on our industry supporting its workforce and empowering people to be the best they can be in all facets of their life. Encouraging flexible work practices is an essential element of this - and directions around flexibility come from the top down. Seeing senior executives within an organisation ‘practice what they preach’ around flexible working is an important aspect of driving cultural change and providing assurance to teams that it’s...
In late 2020, Roads Australia sat down with Camilla Drover, Head of Commercial, Performance and Strategy - Infrastructure & Place at Transport for NSW and Kay Salvair Smith, Capacity Policy Stream Deputy Chair, RA and Partner at MinterEllison Consulting, to talk through some of the significant procurement reform initiatives being undertaken in NSW. This is part of a continuing conversation that RA is leading nationally through our Procurement Reform Report about the changes we need ...
In the first of our Future Leaders podcasts aimed at the next generation of industry leaders, we ask two senior industry figures about the decision-making processes they went through when facing the inevitable question: when is a career move the right move?
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