The Hub
The Hub is the place where integrated transport meets. News, views and insights on infrastructure and integrated transport issues brought to you by Roads Australia.
Episodes
25 episodes
Innovation: An Emerging Leader's Perspective
Listen in as Roads Australia’s 2023 PPP Award Winner, Fiona McDonald, discusses findings from her research report “Innovation: An Emerging Leader’s Perspective”.In 2023, Fiona was awarded the PPP Award, which recognises an emerging leade...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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33:07
Empowering women this IWD: Tricia Malowney
Listen in for the second episode of our two-part series focusing on the economic empowerment of women in the transport sector in the lead-up to International Women’s Day.In this episode, you’ll hear from Tricia Malowney OAM – Chief...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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39:55
Empowering women this IWD: Heather Jones
Listen in for the first of a two-part series focusing on the economic empowerment of women in the transport sector in the lead-up to International Women’s Day.In this episode, you’ll hear from Heather Jones – Founder of Pilbara Heavy Hau...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:07
Asset Management: Doing more with less
In this episode of The Hub hear from Peter Dourlein Global Asset Management Director, Arcadis, as he discu...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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21:31
Enhancing road worker safety
November 9 marked Road Worker Day of Remembrance, an opportunity to reflect on and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives while working on our road network.Roads Australia is proud to support this initiative, as a principal partn...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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27:22
Global decarbonisation lessons
Listen in to this exciting new episode of The Hub and hear from Jose Luis Blasco – Global CEO, ACCIONA Carbon Technologies.Following the recent launch of the Infrastructure Net Zero Initiative, Independent Chair, Nicole Lockwood, sat do...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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34:47
Decarbonising transport operations with GHD
Decarbonising transport is a crucial part of Australia's journey to a zero-emission future. In this episode hear from GHD Queensland Market Leader Mia Barnard about the opportunities and solutions available to work towards this goal...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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39:23
Procurement and risk
In December 2022, RA released the Procurement Reform Report Update: Momentum for a sustainable transport sectorThis summary of a panel discussion at RA's 2023 Transport Summit...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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29:38
Youth and passion in transport
We’re excited to bring you this podcast featuring RA's inspiring 2022 and 2023 Emerging Leader PPP winners. This annual award is presented to a leader who displays the values of Promise, Passion and Pursuit within the transport industry.
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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28:31
Sustainability and the circular economy
This episode is the second in our series of panel discussion summaries from RA’s Transport Summit held earlier in the year.This episode is focused on sustainability and the opportunities that exist to utilise circular economy principles ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:08
Convergence: How decarbonisation drives transport productivity
As part of RA’s Transport Summit five panel discussions were held on some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the transport industry.We are excited to share snippets of these informative discussions, with leaders in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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24:22
Getting ready for RADS
Data offers a world of opportunity to underpin the delivery of transport services that are more aligned with customer experiences. When it comes to the management of transport infrastructure and assets, data is a powerful tool that lets us plan...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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21:29
Putting decarbonisation at the centre of design
Decarbonisation is at the forefront of plenty of design conversations in the transport sector today. But there are still some industry participants unsure of where and how to get started, because they don't feel they have the right tools to sta...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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18:58
Embracing Equity
Recently, RA held a series of networking events in all state capitals in support of International Women's Day 2023 and its theme, embrace equity.In this episode, we're bringing you some of the perspectives that were shared by our ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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24:04
Shaping a more sustainable transport sector and workforce
RA sits down for a conversation with Belinda Virant, Managing Director – Transportation, Arcadis Australia.Belinda discusses how her own career journey and perspectives are fueling her passion for creating a more sustainable transport s...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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21:27
Next Generation Perspectives - Sustainability and Engineering Careers
This episode spotlights a case competition hosted by RA member SYSTRA ANZ for University of NSW students, in partnership with the UNSW Women in Engineering Society.Meet some of those involved in this year's competition - as competitors,...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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15:35
Promise, Passion & Pursuit
We chat with our two most recent PPP Award winners about their career backgrounds, the importance of mentoring and their priorities for change in the industry.Rezarta Rushitaj, Principal Highways Engineer and ANZ Technical Practi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:20
Encouraging Flexible Work
Attracting and retaining the best pool of talent relies on our industry supporting its workforce and empowering people to be the best they can be in all facets of their life. Encouraging flexible work practices is an essential element o...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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27:41
NSW Procurement Reform
In late 2020, Roads Australia sat down with Camilla Drover, Head of Commercial, Performance and Strategy - Infrastructure & Place at Transport for NSW and Kay Salvair Smith, Capacity Policy Stream Deputy Chair, RA and P...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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24:45
Future Leaders - should I stay or should I go?
In the first of our Future Leaders podcasts aimed at the next generation of industry leaders, we ask two senior industry figures about the decision-making processes they went through when facing the inevitable question: when is a career move th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:39
Mobility as a Service (MaaS): where to next?
Mobility as a Service - or MaaS - is an idea that's as much 'in motion' as it is 'about motion'. The concept of planning, booking and paying for a seamless journey across modes isn't exactly new, but it's yet to gain significant traction here i...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:33
Workplace diversity and flexibility: what can we take forward from the COVID experience?
If there's anything positive to come out of this COVID experience, it may be that work-from-home becomes part of 'the new normal' in the transport and infrastructure sector - and as a consequence, open up more opportunities for women to build t...
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Episode 4
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32:09
Building resilience into our infrastructure
The bushfire crisis of December - January has raised questions about the resilience of Australia's infrastructure, and more broadly the role of sustainability in project planning and assessment. So, what have we learned - and are we ready to ta...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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18:09
Transport network pricing: new thinking on an old problem
How, what and when we charge users of roads and transport is a particularly sensitive topic for politicians and the broader community. In this episode, we're joined by Jonathan Spear and Moses Lee from Infrastructure Victoria to talk abou...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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27:09
What does COVID-19 mean for Australia's infrastructure pipeline?
Roads Australia's Michael Kilgariff and Mark Bowmer are joined by BIS Oxford Economics Associate Director Adrian Hart to look at what impacts the current COVID crisis will have on infrastructure delivery in Australia.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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23:25