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Balancing negative impacts and disruption on people in the community is often a sticking point for many infrastructure projects. Regulations can make it difficult for project managers to navigate planning, strategy, and execution, often in projects that are designed to benefit the community in the first place.

My guest today is Micah Gabriels, the Founder and CEO of Mooven. In this episode you'll learn about how Mooven is helping to 'create space' in infrastructure projects and delivery, consider the broader context when planning projects, the importance of community engagement, and why 10-15 year plans should might be a thing of the past.

Nothing strikes frustration into the hearts of Australians like a red Auspost collection letter. Particularly when you've been patiently mulling around at home waiting for your delivery, only to get the dreaded notification: Sorry, we missed you. 

This week's guest is Geoffroy Henry, the CEO and Founder of Ofload, an Aussie logistics startup, discussing the disruption of one of our oldest and most manually-driven industries.

Road freight is a particular facet of the transport industry that is going through some transformational change and disruption. The importance of the transport and logistics industry has been increasingly exposed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, in turn bringing focus to freight tech solutions, disruption, and opportunities. 

Too Long; Didn't Listen - the best bits from our episodes in 15 minutes or less.

In this episode, we break down the best bits of our interview with David Brown, including:

From COVID-19, to political tensions impacting trading partners, to boats stuck sideways in major shipping channels, 2021 has been a difficult year for those in logistics and freight trades.

In this episode, we chat with Jackson Meyer, the Managing Director at Verus and Fickle. A Forbes 30 under 30 Alumni, and an Australian Top 100 Young Entrepreneur winner (just to name a few achievements), Jackson highlights some of the challenges facing the shipping and logistics industry due to changing trends, as well as the ongoing pandemic.

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The Electric and Net Zero Emissions Vehicle discussion has reached a fever pitch in Australia. Difference state governments are busy replacing their own diesel bus fleets with electric buses, new legislation continues to swirl around, but what does this all mean for you as a car owner or potential EV buyer?

In this episode we chat with Paul Maric, the Managing Editor at CarExpert. Paul is a wealth of knowledge for all-things Electric Vehicle related. He has always had a passion for writing and learning about cars (and making sure you don't end up with a lemon) - after all, Paul started his first car website when he was just 17! He also provides a fairly unique  perspective, looking at the EV debate from an accessible consumer angle to explore how policy and choices affect ordinary Australians. 

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Meet Schneider Electric's Rajesh Thangaraj, responsible for the leading Edge business enablement in pacific region, within the Secure Power division. Rajesh is a wealth of knowledge of all-things emerging technology and Edge Computing across multiple sectors, including health, retail, and transport. But what Rajesh sees as the most important thing a company can do to stay ahead of the never ending curve is to invest in their people and leverage the power of humans natural adaptability skills. 

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In this episode of TL;DL we share a snippet of our latest webinar "The Emergence of Connected Vehicles: Applications in the Transport Space", held on the 5th August, 2021.

We asked our three panelists what they hoped the future of connected vehicles might look like, and what was their favourite emerging innovation. You'll hear from:

In Australia, more than 4.4 million people live with some form of disability. That's roughly 1 in 5 people. 

Often there is a stereotypical depict that a 'disability' is something more permanent or severe, such as blindness or wheelchair use. But a disability isn't necessarily something that is long-term. Quite often, you or someone you know has suffered an illness or an injury that impacts the ability to move freely and independently. Whether that be temporary use of crutches while navigating a busy train station, a cast for a broken arm that makes it difficult for you to stand on a bus, or anything that changes the way you interact with the city around you.

On this episode, we sat down with Sue Boyce, the CEO of Ability Works Australia to discuss some of the challenges faced by people that live with disabilities in their daily lives. Everything to the accessibility options in a doctors office that impact your healthcare choices, whether the width of a tram station can actually accomodate a wheelchair, and the economic and social impacts on our society when we don't design with inclusivity for all people in mind.

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We've been inundated with data. In particular, the transport sector is having a data renaissance; it's everywhere and available for almost everything. But there can be too much of a good thing.

We sat down with David Brown, Life Member and Past National President of the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM), to discuss some of the biggest trends in transport. David walks through the dangers of data and confirmation bias, and reinforces the importance that it is the data you DON'T have that is more important than the data in front of you. Aside from data, David also discusses some of the misconceptions around electric and zero net-emission vehicles.

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Transport has a marketing problem. Often we way we approach behavioural change is through fear, stressing the environmental consequences, or the health benefits of leaving the car at home in favour of a bike or public transport. But what if we were going about this the wrong way? 

On this episode, Emily chats with Rachel Smith - Transport and urban planner, author, and 2x TEDx talk speaker - to discuss congestion and the concept of cycling super highways. Rachel discusses the need for transport planners to look at how we communicate congestion and frame our problems as solutions so they are relatable to the people they impact the most. In particular, she discusses how transport could learn a thing or two from good marketing, never underestimating personal connections and incentives, and the importance of agile solution-oriented thinking.

Rachel's website: http://www.cyclingrachelsmith.com/