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Welcome to the 8th Transport Colloquium’s new website
This year’s theme is ‘Australian Transport – building capacity and competitiveness’
Today, Australian transport faces challenges of ensuring infrastructure capacity and providing competitive service against a background of high oil prices, labour market skills shortages and a need for transport to be part of an effective response to global climate change and security threats.
The Colloquium will encourage informed discussion and debate on issues that are fundamental to Australian transport and to Australia’s economic and social well being.
Delegates will hear from a range of highly qualified and respected professionals in their field covering such topics as:
- transport infrastructure challenges ahead
- Australian aviation—coping with growth
- Australia’s trade supply chains—improving capacity, coordination
and efficiency - meeting skills gaps in Australia’s transport industries
- moving people and goods more effectively in Australia’s cities
- climate change and international transport—maritime and
aviation challenges - ensuring efficient and effective security in Australian transport
Our keynote speaker is Professor Kenneth Button is Director, Center for Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. A leading expert on transport policy.
I extend to you a warm invitation to take part in BITRE’s 8th Transport Colloquium and I look forward to meeting you there.
Phil Potterton
Executive Director
Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics