Making planning outcomes the starting point for transport investment
Too often the transport tail wags the city dog.
Planning strategies seek to create thriving centres, stronger communities, productive economies and better places. Yet transport projects are frequently conceived only around congestion, network gaps and operational problems, resulting in investments that are broad and less effective than they need to be.
The quality of a transport project is determined before the business case is written.
Chris Tehan has written business cases for some of this region’s most significant transport and precinct projects, including Melbourne Metro, Sydney Light Rail and Melbourne Airport Rail. He understands what helps a project gain support - and what weakens the case before senior decision-makers even get to the detail.
This course explores how to bridge the gap between planning strategy and transport investment. Participants will learn how to translate planning visions and objectives into focused transport projects that are explicitly targeted to the outcomes they are intended to achieve.
Participants will learn practical methods for defining project purpose, identifying the benefits that matter most, developing stronger investment logic, and creating transport projects that stand up to scrutiny.
By starting with the outcomes we seek to achieve, rather than the problems we seek to solve, planners can develop transport investments that are more targeted, more compelling and ultimately more likely to attract support and funding.
Designed
For
Planning and infrastructure managers and leaders; Strategic planners; Town planners; Transport planners; Local and state government officers involved in project development and investment decisions.
Learning
Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand how planning objectives should shape transport investment decisions
- Define transport projects that are clearly aligned with strategic planning outcomes
- Identify the benefits that matter most and use them to focus project scope
- Critique transport investment proposals and their underlying rationale
- Develop stronger investment logic and strategic business case foundations
- Create transport projects that deliver meaningful economic, social and place outcomes
Presenters
Chris Tehan is a transport strategy and business case expert with more than three decades of industry experience and leadership in both the public and private sector. Chris is passionate about strategically aligning transport investments to an intended vision or goal, enabling organisations to robustly choose the right projects, the best options and a targeted scope.
Chris has framed the strategy and business cases for major city-shaping initiatives such as Melbourne Metro Rail Tunnel, Sydney CBD Light Rail and Melbourne Airport Rail. He also been involved in business cases for major precinct initiatives such as Fishermans Bend, Sunshine NEIC, Maribyrnong Defence Site, Werribee Employment Precinct, and the Transit Cities program.
Terms & Conditions
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