Australian Engineering
Excellence Award winners
The
Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities project joins the finest
engineering enterprises and professionals in the world by winning an
Australian Engineering Excellence Award.
Engineers Australia ensure that the standards are always high, with
world-class projects reaching superior levels of attainment and deemed to be
truly outstanding achievers. Five projects won Australian Engineering
Excellence Awards this year from a field of about 400. One winner is from
NSW: The Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities Project from The Warren
Centre for Advanced Engineering.
The Warren Centre hosted and facilitated the Sustainable Transport in
Sustainable Cities project. It was a $4 million project programmed over
almost four years and involving more than 200 industry professionals. Most
significantly, all professional and community members contributed their time
on a voluntary basis.
The output of the project was both practical and unconstrained by political
agendas.
A strategic plan for developing Sydney and a blueprint, which can be applied
to produce effective outcomes in other major world cities.
Executive summaries of the projects 13 reports can be downloaded from
http://www.warren.usyd.edu.au/transport/publications.htm.
All the technical papers making up the project reports can be downloaded
from
http://document-delivery.ucc.usyd.edu.au/warren_centre/
The project demonstrates how Sydney can become a more desirable, liveable
and sustainable city. The Warren Centre’s vision was to achieve enhanced
public access to the things they need and want by using a range of efficient
and appropriate modes of transport at lower environmental, economic and
social costs.
In summary, there are five pillars to delivering the vision, provided we
start now and stick with it for generations:
1. Develop Sydney’s City of Cities structure
2. Send the right pricing signals and broaden the transport funding base
3. Support the economic, social and cultural growth of the Cities within
Greater Sydney (this is where transport is directly addressed)
4. Engage the community in the entire process
5. Remove the legislative and administrative barriers to change
The project concluded that demand for accessibility will increase faster
than population growth. Government and financial resources for transport are
stable and, at best, will match population growth. More of the same will not
work. We can and must reduce the unconstrained use of un-sustainable means
of transport, at least to match population growth. The solution lies in
genuine integration of planning for land use, transport and pricing.
Click here
for more information on other winners of Australian Engineering Excellence
Awards.
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NEW RELEASE
"Innovation: Beyond the Idea"
The handbook containing the key
messages and the details from the 20th anniversary forum and workshops.
Click here
to download.
DIARY DATES
Warren Centre EventsInnovation: Beyond the idea workshop series
February 2004 Sydney, April 2004 Melbourne
Innovation needs a connection between research & business,
March 2004 Sydney, April 2004 Melbourne
Finding the people with the skills to innovate
March, July and September 2004
Successful Innovation workshop – commercialisation for new researchers
25 March 2004 Sydney, Melbourne to follow.
Commercial application of nanotechnology
A collection of workshops for those with automotive, textile,
construction, environment and electronic interests.
May 2004
Innovation Lecture
22 July 2004
International Transport Symposium
Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities
Sydney University
For information and to register, contact Fiona Hearne (02) 9351 7205 or
fionah@eng.usyd.edu.au
Events
Supported by The Warren Centre
24 & 25 February 2004 Sydney
Australian Roads Summit
Sydney Convention Centre
Anthony Sprange (02) 9922 5609/5844 or
anthonys@acevents.com.au or
click here
for more information.
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