Informa Interview - Professor Peter Newman on WA Transport

Professor Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University of Technology and Advisory Council Member of Infrastructure Australia, discusses the challenge of overcoming automobile dependence in transport planning, putting resources into rail rather than roads, and the cost of change for big cities like Sydney.

He is speaking at the WA Transport Infrastructure Summit 2008 in Perth in September.

For more information, go to http://www.informa.com.au/watransport/vid or call 02-9080 4307.

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