Low Carbon Transport for our Cities
Day Two - Speaker Profiles
Sheridan Blunt Sheridan is Acting Team Leader of the Transport Policy team at the City of Melbourne. Transport planning at the City of Melbourne is directed by the progressive Future Melbourne Community Plan and its vision to have 90% of CBD commuters arriving by public transport, zero deaths and serious injuries on the road, and commitments to public bike systems, slow travel speeds, walking, and smart freight services. This is supported by the Moving People and Freight Transport Strategy. The Transport Policy team has recently completed a greenhouse inventory of the City of Melbourne’s transport policy initiatives. The results have been illuminating in terms of the low greenhouse reductions forecast for each sustainable transport initiatives. Policy development is now being shaped around this knowledge, along with other environmental, social and economic objectives that need to be considered in transport planning. Prior to this role, Sheridan has been the City of Melbourne’s Sustainable Water Program Coordinator for the past five years where she developed both the City of Melbourne’s Total Watermark – City as a Catchment policy and Water Sensitive Urban Design Guidelines. She has also designed and delivered the award winning environmental program with hotels called Savings in the City. Sheridan has previously worked at the Sustainability Unit at PlanningNSW working on the early development of the BASIX environmental rating tool, at the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, and has spent a year working as an environmental planner in a protected marshland in the Philippines. |
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Daniel Kollmorgen Daniel Kollmorgen is currently Manager Transport Management and Planning at Darebin City Council which covers the areas of sustainable transport, transport planning and traditional traffic engineering. As awardee of the Municipal Engineering Foundation Victoria overseas study tour Daniel has recently travelled through the US, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands observing international initiatives in improving pedestrian safety. Prior to Darebin Daniel worked at the City of Stonnington and private consulting. Daniel is passionate about improving travel choices and prioritising sustainable transport modes. |
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Dr Michael Kennedy In 2001 the Mornington Peninsula Shire made its very public Commitment to a Sustainable Peninsula and developed its Sustainability Framework, to ensure that every policy, and every strategy, addressed social, economic and environmental sustainability in a ‘joined up’ way. |
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Professor Chris Ryan Chris Ryan has worked for over 30 years across various areas of science, technology and environment policy. He was foundation professor of Design and Sustainability at RMIT until his retirement in mid 2004 and Director of the National (Key) Centre for Environmental Design from 1989-98. In this position he directed the National EcoReDesign program, working with 20 Australian companies to develop a new eco-design methodology and new greener products for the market. Professor Ryan left Australia in 1998 to take up a position of Professor and subsequently Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) in Lund, Sweden. That Institute, which focuses on new sustainable systems of production and consumption, is attached to Lund University. Its research program is closely linked to the formation of government policy, innovation and industry strategy. Professor Ryan returned to Australia from Sweden in 2002 and was senior research fellow with Lab 3000 continuing research on the potential for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to contribute to eco-innovation. The outcomes of that research appeared in Lab Report 03 - "Digital Eco-Sense: Sustainability and ICT, a new terrain for innovation". In parallel with that research, he initiated the international "Eco-Sense" program linking University design schools around the world to explore new possibilities for eco-innovation. Professor Ryan has collaborated with many eco-design related research groups in Europe, including the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and the UK Design Council in London. He has worked with the UN Environment Program (Division of Technology, Industry and Economics) in Paris on various programs related to sustainable consumption and eco-design. He was the author of the UNEP Global Status Report on Sustainable Consumption for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. He is currently joint editor of a forthcoming UNEP Global Guide to Ecodesign. He holds the position of Adjunct Professor in Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and in Industrial Design at RMIT and is Visiting Professor at the IIIEE at Lund University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Industrial Ecology' (MIT Press) and the 'International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development' (Inderscience). |