Industry Opinion, Author at Rail Express

Stumbling into the future: living with the legacy of the great infrastructure sell-off

COMMENT: Long-term privatisation contracts, most of them closed to scrutiny, lock urban infrastructure into 20th-century formats unsuited for a climate-threatened planet, Phillip O’Neill writes.Read More

Industry OpinionApril 10, 2017, 7:01 pmApril 10, 2017

How do we restore the public’s faith in transport planning?

COMMENT: Politicised transport projects that flout proper process lead to hostility between residents and governments, and give planners a bad name, Crystal Legacy, Jan Scheurer, and Carey Curtis write. Opposition
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Industry OpinionApril 10, 2017, 1:37 amApril 10, 2017

Passenger Rail, Technology and IT

How science can help cities prepare for attacks on metro systems

The St Petersburg attack shows how engineering and psychology can help optimise how people are evacuated in a disaster, Enrico Ronchi and Daniel Nilsson write.
Tokyo, Moscow, Madrid, London, Brussels,
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Industry OpinionApril 6, 2017, 12:18 amApril 6, 2017

Environment and Sustainability, Passenger Rail

Sidelining planners makes for poorer urban policy, and future generations will pay the price

Urban planners have been blamed for a lot of things, including higher housing costs. But the solution is to refine the process, not sideline the good residential and transport planning that makes cities
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Industry OpinionMarch 28, 2017, 9:25 pmMarch 28, 2017

Melbourne Tram. Photo: RailGallery.com.au

Environment and Sustainability, Passenger Rail, Research & Development

What a difference a month makes, but Victoria can still do more to get housing and planning right

To meet the needs of lower-income households, housing should be both affordable and located near public transport and other services, Katrina Raynor and Carolyn Whitzman write. The need for more affordable
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Industry OpinionMarch 19, 2017, 7:55 pmMarch 19, 2017

Freight Rail, Passenger Rail

WA Election: How the West was lost

The long-running and unpopular Barnett government has been ousted, ushering in a new Labor government led by former navy lawyer Mark McGowan, Natalie Mast writes. Labor has won the 2017 Western Australian
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Industry OpinionMarch 12, 2017, 10:23 pmMarch 12, 2017

Environment and Sustainability, Freight Rail, Passenger Rail

Metronet, Perth Freight Link key issues heading into WA election

With a once-booming economy faltering and many fearing for their jobs, Western Australians seem primed for a change of government on March 11, Natalie Mast writes. The past four years have not been kind
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Industry OpinionMarch 7, 2017, 5:25 pmMarch 12, 2017

Passenger Rail, Research & Development, Technology and IT

City streets become a living lab that could transform your daily travel

A project set up north of Melbourne’s CBD aims to create a living laboratory for developing a highly integrated, smart, multimodal transport system, Majid Sarvi, Gary Liddle and Russell G. Thompson
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Industry OpinionFebruary 22, 2017, 5:15 pmFebruary 22, 2017

Roe Highway upgrade - Perth Freight Link. Photo: Creative Commons

Environment and Sustainability, Freight Rail, Passenger Rail

Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning

COMMENT: Perth’s Roe 8 project illustrates all that is wrong with how we are planning and managing infrastructure in our cities, Peter Newman writes. The Beeliar
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Industry OpinionFebruary 17, 2017, 2:51 amFebruary 17, 2017

Passenger Rail

End of the road? Why it might be time to ditch your car

COMMENT: Think you couldn’t possibly do without your car? There are more options than you might think, Anthony James writes. The average car is stationary 96% of the time. That’s a fairly consistent
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Industry OpinionFebruary 15, 2017, 7:15 amFebruary 15, 2017

Industry Opinion

Stumbling into the future: living with the legacy of the great infrastructure sell-off

How do we restore the public’s faith in transport planning?

How science can help cities prepare for attacks on metro systems

Sidelining planners makes for poorer urban policy, and future generations will pay the price

What a difference a month makes, but Victoria can still do more to get housing and planning right

WA Election: How the West was lost

Metronet, Perth Freight Link key issues heading into WA election

City streets become a living lab that could transform your daily travel

Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning

End of the road? Why it might be time to ditch your car

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