Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning GAMUT

Professor John Whitelegg

Professor John Whitelegg has worked for 25 years on transport, environment and sustainable development issues.   This work includes direct experience of managing transport systems in the north of Scotland (air, ferry and bus), academic teaching and  research at Lancaster University for sixteen years, working with a German traffic ministry in Duesseldorf, mathematical modelling of freight flows, solving transport problems in Canada, India, Israel, Romania, Australia and in most European countries.
Professor Whitelegg has written eight books and more than fifty articles.  His main interests now are in fundamental restructuring of transport supply and demand to reflect sustainability principles and to deliver health objectives through transport policy globally.  He has specific interests in urban planning in Asian cities and in the developed world, in the links between transport infrastructure investment and economic progress and in the human rights and ethical issues surrounding transport policy.
John edits the journal, World Transport Policy and Practice.

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Professor Nicholas Low

Professor Nicholas Low is the author or editor of eight books, two of which have won national and international prizes. He is known for his contributions to the study of the politics of planning and transport, and for his international research on urban sustainability published in numerous international journal articles. He convened the 1997 conference at the University of Melbourne on Environmental Justice. His book (with Brendan Gleeson) Justice, Society and Nature won the Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize of the International Studies Association 1998 for the best book published on ecological politics in that year.

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Chris Loader

Chris is Manager, Transport Planning and Policy at Bus Association Victoria (BusVic). Chris works with governments, public transport operators, business groups, academia and the community sector developing and advocating policy solutions for more sustainable transport outcomes.

Chris’s policy interests include climate change, transport planning, demand trends, social exclusion, peak oil, and urban planning.  Chris joined BusVic in 2005, having previously worked in the resources, technology consulting, and utility sectors.  He graduated from UWA in 1995 with an honours degree in Computer Science.
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