Why You Need to Attend Sydney’s Rail Future 2013

Sydney’s Rail Future 2013 will feature presentations by key stakeholders involved with developing and taking forward infrastructure planning and development and will focus on funding this major project, looking at timeframes and estimates and examining the options on how we can save time and reduce cost. If you want to join the debate and find answers to how the best public value can be achieved by delivering this major infrastructure project as quickly as possible to unleash the economic benefits for NSW, then Sydney’s rail Future is your must attend event of 2013.

Reasons to attend by sector:

Government:

• Discover and learn from best practice international transport systems
• Understand the planning and development of profitable transport systems
• Engage with private sector infrastructure developers
• Understand different funding models and determine the most efficient ways to attract investment

Transport:

• Understand new transport technology to enable efficiency
• Understand the planning and development of profitable transport systems
• Learn from international transport systems on encouraging public transport use
• Fully understand future rail network infrastructure plans

Planners/Architects:

• Learn best practice planning from international transport systems
• Get face-to-face with decision makers involved with taking forward the transport master plan
• Understand best practice integration of transport and land use planning

Construction:

• Network with government decision makers involved with taking forward the transport master plan
• Brand awareness – be front of mind during continual tender releases for the design and build of surface civil work packages
• Understand funding models and timeframes for delivery

Engineers:

• Discover international best practice engineering for transport infrastructure development
• Brand awareness – be front of mind during continual engineering tender releases
• Network with government decision makers involved with taking forward the transport master plan

Finance/Law:

• Discuss funding models with government decision maker’s charged with taking forward transport infrastructure development
• Understand and discuss the development of workable contract mechanisms to enable manageable risks for both public and private sectors
• Debate the merits of PPP’s over public tendering and understand risk allocation

Sydney’s Rail Future

The Sydney’s Rail Future plan aims to transform our rail network over the long term – introducing rapid transit, single deck trains to deliver major increases in capacity and frequency for greater Sydney. Service Improvements, capital works and network upgrades will be rolled-out over five stages:

• Operational efficiencies – improving dwell management and de-cluttering platforms
• Network efficiencies – completing the South-West Rail Link; introducing simpler timetables; enhancing track infrastructure
• New rapid transit system – completing the North West Rail Link; procuring new rolling stock; upgrading the Epping to Chatswood Rail Link
• Second Harbour Rail Crossing – completing a new tunnel under the harbour and a new CBD line stations; increasing capacity on the Western Line
• Southern Sector conversion – extending single deck rapid transit services to Bankstown and Hurtsville; increasing services to the South West and Southern Sydney

Who will you meet at Sydney’s Rail Future 2013?

This event will attract high level decision makers from the NSW Transport Sector from both the public and private sectors. If you want to network and hear from key stakeholders who developed the NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan and Sydney’s Light Rail Future and those charged with taking the plans through to completion from both the public and private sector, then this event is not to be missed.

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