Transport - Where are we heading

Thursday, 27th June
7:30pm

Hampton Uniting Church
17 Service Street, Hampton

Professor Graham Currie

Professor of Public Transport,
Director Public Transport Research Group, Monash University Australia

President, Australasian Transport Research Forum

Chris Phiniefs, Bayside City Council’s Transport Planning Lead, will also present at the forum.

He will speak on some of the successes from this year and short to long term plans which are currently in motion. 

Prof Currie is a transport research leader/ policy advisor and Directs the Public Transport Research Group (PTRG) at Monash University Australia.   He has published over 200 research papers in leading international research journals and is the top publisher in the world in public transport.   In 2013 he won the TRB William W Millar prize for best research paper in public transit at the US Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting the largest transport research conference in the world.  In 2016 he won the prize again and in 2024 he won another Outstanding Paper award at TRB.  Prof Currie was Chair of the Light Rail Transit Committee at US Transportation Research Board between 2016 and 2022.  He is a Board member of the Singapore LTA Research Advisory Board and the Swedish National Centre for Research on Public Transport.  In 2020 he was presented with the Transport Medal for outstanding contributions to Australian transport by Engineers Australia. 

Prof Currie is a Bayside resident and has led numerous bus and rail planning studies through Melbourne including Bayside over his 35 year career.