The upcoming Intelligent Transport: Planning and Design Across Modes event will highlight how smarter planning and design will drive safer, more sustainable mobility. With rapid growth across Australia and New Zealand, transport systems will need to adapt to changing demographics, evolving travel behaviours, and environmental priorities.
Experts will share how demographic forecasting, predictive modelling, GIS applications, smarter traffic signal applications,
This session will emphasise transport as an interconnected system rather than separate modes. Roads, buses, light rail, high-speed projects, and pedestrian spaces will be considered as part of a cohesive network that delivers the right service levels and enhances liveability. Highlights will feature pedestrian and event planning, safety trials of traffic devices, new detection technologies, and strategies for reducing conflicts between users. Rail planning will also be explored, from optimising maintenance centres and signalling to modelling and validation of large-scale projects, ensuring long-term resilience and sustainability.
Decarbonisation and digital innovation will be recurring themes, with case studies on electric bus integration, intelligent transport systems, provision for active transport,
Speakers include:
- Karandeep Chadha, Smart Cities Council Task Force Lead
- Maud Leruste, Systra
- Pete Klestov, Transurban
- Matthew Jedniuk, GHD
- Megan Gregory, ViaStrada
