Transit oriented development and regional activity centres are essential components of the new Regional Plan for south east Queensland.

Following on from Smart Urban Transport 2005, this one day conference, run jointly by the Centre for Transport Strategy at the University of Queensland and Transport Roundtable Australasia, will focus on the benefits that can be achieved by adopting innovative approaches to transit oriented development, featuring emerging trends and best practice in strategic planning, policy, architectural design, urban planning and institutional requirements.

Thursday 15 September 2005

Session 1: Transit oriented development: an overview
- Success factors and lessons learned in implementing transit oriented development
- Innovations and emerging trends in transit oriented development

Session 2: Innovations in transit oriented design
- Emerging trends and innovations in architectural and urban design
- Best practice urban planning concepts for transit oriented development
- Designing for security and threat management

Session 3: Institutional requirements for transit oriented development
- Transit oriented development friendly planning and policy environment
- New institutional models for successful transit oriented development
- Barriers to transit oriented development implementation
- Public and private financing transit oriented development

Session 4: Emerging futures
- Future directions: planning, design, policy and research agenda

Short Course: Transit Oriented Development: an introduction : Friday 16 September 2005

A one day short course providing an introduction to the state of practice in transit oriented development run by Alan Hoffman, The Mission Group, San Diego California

Details can be seen at: http://m1e.net/c?42042696-/RowoZp6IKCko%401155431-.Iz4V7G.9V.lU
To register: download brochure from website or contact Prof Phil Charles mailto:p.charles@uq.edu.au