Bike Futures 2012
Thursday 18 – Friday 19 October 2012
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
 
Bike Futures has become Australia’s leading bike conference for national and local leaders, planners, architects, urban designers and builders who use bike transport and recreation to advance their communities.
 
Keynote speakers include Johan Diepens, CEO and founder of Mobycon, the leading edge Dutch transport and mobility consultancy.

Mr Diepens, a trendwatcher and strategist, will discuss different smart mobility solutions that are being introduced around the world.
 
Now in its fourth year Bike Futures will tackle the issue of ensuring that the growth in bike riding around the country now requires its own transport and planning response. The conference will also hear from Professor Ross Garnaut, author of Australia’s Climate Change Review, who will share his view on the environmental role the bicycle can play.
 
Bike Futures 2012 will discuss how to best provide bike infrastructure, essential for mobility, to changing the ways cities work. World leading experts as well as some of Australia’s leading practitioners will explain how to best respond to the issues confronting communities as they embrace the bicycle revolution.
 
Workshop themes for the conference will include: new and innovative bicycle treatments, bicycles and public transport, motor vehicle speeds in neighbourhoods, cycling and liveability, bike planning, shared paths and shared spaces, cycle tourism and bike separation.

The two-day conference is presented by the Bicycle Network and hosted by Bicycle Network Victoria.
 
Call for papers, visit Bicycle Network
 
For more information visit the website.
 

Public Transport Victoria is the statutory authority that administers Victoria’s train, tram and bus services. It provides a single contact point for customers wanting information on public transport services, fare, tickets and initiatives.

Victoria’s public transport network comprises train, tram, bus and coach services. These services are provided by independent operators via contracts administered by Public Transport Victoria.

PTV was established in April 2012 with the aim of improving public transport in Victoria by:

•     Ensuring better coordination between modes
•     Facilitating expansions to the network
•     Auditing public transport assets
•     Promoting public transport as an alternative to the car
•     Acting as a system authority for all public transport and an advocate for public transport users.

Visit the Public Transport Victoria website for more information.

5 - 6.30pm on Tuesday 15th May 2012
Transport Economics Forum at Department of Transport theatrette, Level 5, 121 Exhibition St. Melbourne.

Ray Winn is a transport economist with 25 years experience as a consultant and public servant in the UK and Australia. Over the last eight years he has been responsible for leading transport performance audits for the Victorian Auditor-General.

In this presentation Ray will draw on findings from recent performance audits to comment on the role and importance of cost benefit analysis in shaping effective transport projects.

Please T [dot] Readaciltasman [dot] com [dot] au (RSVP) by Friday 11th May

Adelaide, January 2013

The Australian Cycling Conference aims to develop the quality of cycling research, planning and infrastructure provision in Australasia. Each year the Conference brings together policy makers, practitioners, community organisations and researchers to further knowledge and expertise in cycling.

Call for Papers
The Australian Cycling Conference is now welcoming abstract submissions for the 2013 conference. For all details see the attached document 'Australian Cycling Conference call for papers 2013' or visit the website. Abstract Due Date: 15 June 2012

For more information email the convenoraustraliancyclingconference [dot] org (Conference Convenor).

Published by the Department of Transport, the Transport Research and Policy Analysis Bulletin profiles the work being undertaken by the Policy and Communications Division of the department, and shares information of interest to the transport sector and broader community.

The autumn 2012 edition (issue 17) is available for download via the DoT website to catch up on:

• Metropolitan train patronage: 1946-47 to 2010-11
• The Melbourne commercial vehicle video survey
• Current vehicle technology and payback periods
• Electric vehicles: trialling the future
• Emergence of travel time budgets in Melbourne
• Victoria lodges submission with Infrastructure Australia
• Some facts about... Greater Bendigo


To sign up for this and other Department of Transport newsletters, sign up to their mailing list.

The not-for-profit CERES (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies) Environment Centre, in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, is switching on the first energy charging station for electric vehicles. The cars will take power from the grid, but solar panels will generate electricity to help offset that power.
It takes about two hours to charge a car at the station, but it costs a fraction of the price of petrol. Those behind the project say it has huge potential to provide carbon neutral transport.

Listen to the interview with the site manager at CERES, Nick Curmi on ABC radio.