Julie has over 30 years’ experience in the transport sector gained through a variety of planning, policy, advocacy and research roles across state and local government, consultancies, universities and the community sector. She has expertise in transport and land use planning and a strong personal interest in transport disadvantage.
Julie leads the Transport Strategy team in Transport for NSW who deliver better community outcomes through collaboratively creating strategies and tools informed by robust evidence that anticipate future challenges and opportunities. Accountabilities include setting the long-term vision for an integrated, user-centric transport system for NSW, creating guidelines and practical tools to support the implementation of this vision (including Movement & Place), and place-based multimodal network strategies across NSW.
What you’ll learn
What is Transport Disadvantage and why is it important to address it?
How do we balance long-term strategic transport planning with the immediate demands of communities and the network?
About the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS)
Quotes
"Access to transport is a social determinant of your health, education, and jobs. It's how you access opportunities. And with limited access, you have limited opportunities, and that can potentially entrench disadvantage and transport disadvantage."
"By not future-proofing for future transport investments or securing corridors, we're signing ourselves up to spending many, many more billions of dollars than we would have otherwise."
"We talk to people about having a vision and validate approach. So we come up with what's the concepts that we want to... what we want the future to look like. And that's just not about what we think. It's more engaging with various stakeholders, with councils, with communities to sort of understand what the vision for the future might be if we were unconstrained.”
"Trying to get people to worry about the future when there's significant issues in the here and now is really challenging. So we look at the no-regret steps we might take to get to that future" .
Links:
NSW Government’s Movement and Place website
Connect:
Connect with Julie via Linkedin
Connect with Emily via email: emily@compassiot.com.au
Connect with Byte Size via LinkedIn
Connect with Compass IoT (the producer of this podcast) via our website
Navigating Now and Next: Juggling Present Transport Demand with Long-Term Goals.