Day Two of the Light Rail 2016 conference in Melbourne will include addresses by experts from Europe and the UK.
Following an engaging first day, the annual light rail event will wrap up on Thursday with a number more talks, and a site tour of Bombardier’s Dandenong plant.
Thursday’s schedule for the conference, at Pullman Melbourne on the Park, is as follows:
- 0830 – Registration and morning coffee
- 0855 – Opening remarks from the chair of the day; Dr Anjum Naweed, principle research fellow, Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
- 0900 – UK Tram – Innovation and Sharing Best Practice; Robin Wolfendale, rail projects manager, Trelleborg Offshore, UK Tram
- 0930 – Trends in Light Rail in Europe; Regis Hennion, metro and light rail director, Keolis
- 1000 – Understanding the Wider Value of Honor Based Ticketing in Light Rail; Professor Graham Currie, chair of public transport, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
- 1030 – Global Technology Breakthrough for Light Rail; Ian Corfield, projects director, Bombardier Transportation Australia
- 1100 – Morning Tea
- 1120 – Financing Light Rail Projects; Darrin Grimsey, lead client service partner, TAS Government & Public Sector, infrastructure advisory, EY
- 1150 – Presentation from Shane Ellison, NSW managing director, Transdev
- 1220 – Applying Value Capture Funding in Australia – Current Opportunities and Obstacles; Joe Langley, technical director, infrastructure advisory, AECOM
- 1250 – Lunch
- 1330 – Sustainable Light Rail Delivery; Melanie McGaw, SQE director, KDR Gold Coast
- 1400 – Practical Implementation of DDA Compliant Infrastructure on the Melbourne Tram Network; Mike Ford, senior rail design engineer, Jacobs
- 1430 – Looking Beyond the Wall of Technology (A Light Rail X-Ray); Dr Anjum Naweed, principal research fellow, Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
- 1500 – Closing remarks
- 1510 – 1830 – Site visit to Bombardier rail vehicles production site at Dandenong, Victoria.