29 April 2021
Intelligent Transport = Accessible Transport
ITS Australia
Intelligent Transport = Accessible Transport was undoubtedly one of the great highlights of the 17th ITS Asia Pacific Forum. This conversation between Kevin Cocks OAM of Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads and three-time Paralympic gold medalist Kurt Fearnley provided insights that helped encourage us all to think beyond the technology and consider the importance of inclusive options that serve every transport user. This session also features the insights of the United States' Carol Schweiger, talking about public transport and the mobility space.
We are pleased to make this session available for everyone to watch below.
Speakers
Kurt Fearnley
Board Member / Sports Australia
Kurt Fearnley is a three time Paralympic gold medalist and two time Commonwealth Games gold medalist. He has won over 40 marathons, including New York, Chicago and London in a career spanning more than 20 years. In 2009 Kurt crawled the Kokoda track, in Papua New Guinea, to raise awareness of men’s health. Kurt was also a member of the winning Sydney to Hobart yacht crew, Investec Loyal, in 2012. He is New South Wales Australian of the Year for 2019.
Kurt is an accomplished corporate speaker, a published Author (Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons and Kokoda), host of Tiny Island podcast and host of 2020 ABCTV’s One Plus One.
Kevin Cocks
Executive General-Manager (Accessible Transport Network) / Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD
Nationally and internationally experienced and recognized orator, negotiator, influencer, leader and shaper of views in the human rights and disability field. Kevin has worked successfully from the community to international level advocating for a better deal for those members of society not afforded basic human rights. He has focused on building relationships and bridging the gaps, engaging members of the corporate, legal and public sector worlds, working with them to understand the vision of economic and social inclusion of vulnerable people and supporting them to transform that vision into different behaviours.
Carol Schweiger
President / Schweiger Consulting Llc
Carol Schweiger, President of Schweiger Consulting, has 41 years of experience, and is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting. Her wide-ranging and in-depth expertise is in several specialty areas including technology strategies for public agencies; public transit technology, traveler information strategies and systems, and systems engineering. Ms. Schweiger has provided over 70 transportation agencies with technology technical assistance including a focus on equity and accessibility. She is the Co-chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies, an author for and on the Advisory Board of Intelligent Transport (a UK magazine), a Charter Member of the Emerging Technology Standing Committee and Mobility on Demand Alliance of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), and member of the International Program Committee of the ITS World Congress, TRB ITS Committee, New England ITS Board of Directors, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Technical Committee on Mobility Innovation, and SAE Shared and Digital Mobility Committee