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NSW Transport: Perform or Perish

SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong is calling for the NSW Government to commit to a reduction in road and rail travel times between Wollongong and Sydney Airport, reducing the time for road travel from 94 to 68 minutes.

The call for better planning for infrastructure to deliver reduced congestion and travel times was made in the SMART Infrastructure Facility’s submission to the NSW Government’s discussion paper on the development of a long-term transport master plan.

SMART submission                            SMART Media release

SMART move secures funding

The SMART Infrastructure Facility has secured funding which will allow it to deliver a ‘one-stop-shop’ online portal to display and enhance information on infrastructure services and operations in a given region.

Funding has come from the Australian National Data Service totalling $215,000 for the development of the Multi Utility Dashboard (MUD).

Funding allows for Multi Utility Dashboard

SMART Sponsors National Infrastructure Award for Government Partnership Excellence

From left to right: Hon Mark Birrell - Chairman, IPA; Thomas Lau - Director, Infrastructure Advisory, RBS (representing the Helena Water Consortium); Ross Mignacca - Watercorp WA (representing the client); Garry Bowditch - CEO, SMART Infrastructure Facility

SMART Infrastructure Facility were proud to once again take part in the 2012 Annual Infrastructure Oration and National Infrastructure Awards. The awards were hosted by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia on the 4th April at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth with almost 600 of infrastructure’s most senior public and private sector leaders were in attendance.

SMART hosted a table at the award ceremony and sponsored the award for Government Partnership Excellence for the third year running.

Details of the award ceremony and finalists may be found at http://www.infrastructure.org.au/Content/2012NationalInfrastructureAwards.aspx  

Shaping the Sydney of Tomorrow

Liveability is a concept and factor being used by urban planners and designers to better understand how people perceive the places they live and work in and how it affects their life choices.

This concept of liveability is a key ingredient for the decision support simulation that SMART Infrastructure Facility is currently building for Transport for NSW.

This commissioned research project called, “Shaping the Sydney of Tomorrow”, has been developed to aid transport and land use planners to understand the interactions between future transport needs, population increases and land use changes, and the effects these will have on the populations perception of ‘liveability’.

Full article -Defining Urban Liveability: From static indices to dynamical perceptions