Key Note Presenter
Phil Jones – Director, BSc CEng MICE MIHT FIHIE (Hons)

He has carried out research into residential parking for DCLG and is leading further research in this area for several local authorities. Phil is also a member of the CABE Space Enabling Panel and the Institution of Highways and Transportation’s Urban Design Group.

Ian Johnston was Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre from 2001 until his retirement at the end of 2006. He is now a Director on the board of the Driver Education Centre of Australia, Deputy Chair of the board of the (Australian) National Transport Commission and a member of the Core Advisory Group of the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility. He also runs his own consultancy advising governments on transport safety strategies.

Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Associate Editor of the international journal Accident Analysis and Prevention and an Honorary Life Member of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia.

Dr Charlton has over 25 years’ research experience in the broad areas of engineering, psychology and human factors.  His work on operator fatigue, workload, and human performance issues for the Global Positioning System, the Consolidated Space Operations Center, and other key projects earned him the US Air Force’s Exemplary Civilian Service Medal in 1993.  His recent work has examined a range of road transport issues such as driver attentiveness and fatigue, perceptions of risk, hazard warnings, and self-explaining roads.  In 2005 the NZ Automobile Association recognised his work by awarding it’s first-ever Research Excellence Award.

Areas of expertise / interest: applied cognitive psychology; attention & memory processes; transportation & technology

Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps to expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis.

Mr. Litman has worked on numerous studies that evaluate transportation costs, benefits and innovations.

Rick leads the New Zealand Institute.  He has been a strategic management consultant for the past 25 years and was the founding partner of the Boston Consulting Group in New Zealand.  In recent years Rick has been a professional director as well as a consultant and his directorships include ASB Bank, Wellington Drive Technologies (chair) and Go Virtual Medical Limited.
Rick has worked with leading companies in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.A in a wide range of industries including Financial Services, Industrial Distribution, Energy, Telecommunications and On-Line, Transport, Manufacturing, Agriculture, and Information Technology.  He has a Ph.D. in Environment Management from the University of Auckland, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Australian Graduate School of Management, as well as a Master of Arts (Psychology) degree from Victoria University of Wellington. 

Do you want to impact proactively for a sustainable transportation future in NZ? Robin will motivate, challenge and take you into the future of Transportation.

Robin Gunston- Professional Futurist, Mentor Capitalist and Social Entreprenuer will engage with Trafinz participants in his provocative style of delivery.

Robin lives in Wellington where he is the past Chairperson and lead consultant of Futures Thinking Aotearoa (an independent futures think tank), an adviser to Anew NZ’s “What matters most to NZers” project, and a Director of 3 other futures technology based SMEs. He has been national leader of a youth movement and is Chair of several Trusts. He has spoken at The World Futures Society in Washington DC, at the National Risk Management Conferences in Wellington, to the Tertiary Sector IT conference etc and at numerous society AGMs and not for profit’s strategic planning sessions.

Robin was HSE Manager, and Commercial Manager at Marsden Point Refinery for 17 years, he has been involved in numerous plans for the future of energy in NZ, as well as new standards for fuels and bitumens. His efforts in improving safety led the NZRC receiving RoSPA’s International Gold Award for workplace safety improvement. He was involved in scenario planning with Shell and developed the refinery’s ultra long term plans. He has been a risk management adviser to Transit NZ and was for a number of years a steam railways rail safety auditor.

Dr Jeremy Davey

Colin Crampton
GM, Capital Projects, NZ Transport Agency

Colin Crampton currently leads the Capital Projects group in the NZ Transport Agency, and is responsible for the delivery of infrastructure improvements valued at $750M per annum.

Colin has played an active role in establishing the long term procurement strategy for the Agency, which promotes a range of procurement options for maintaining and improving the State Highway corridor. The Agency’s premium procurement method, Alliancing, has been an element of the strategy since 2001, when the first Alliance was trialled on the multi award winning Grafton Gully project.

Colin was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Alliance on Grafton Gully and was a Project Alliance Board Member throughout the delivery phase. He currently holds a board position on the Northern Gateway Toll Road Alliance, delivering the stunning motorway extension north of Orewa.

Colin has promoted Alliancing for its role in developing capability within the sector, changing behaviours of a life time and being the source of many innovations which result in better value for money for all New Zealanders. He is recognised as an influential leader in the current state of procurement in NZ. 

Pam Hook and Julie Mills are educational consultants at Hooked on Thinking. They work independently in schools and direct and facilitate ICT_PD and EHSAS cluster contracts for the Ministry of Education.  Their work with schools is focused on designing learning experiences to enhance students’ learning outcomes.  Pam and Julie have presented on teaching and learning at national and international conferences. They are currently co-authoring an online book, The Differentiated Curriculum Model which includes contributions from educators from across New Zealand
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Web site: www.hooked-on-thinking.com
Wiki: www.hooked-on-thinking.wikispaces.com
Online Book: http://hooked-on-thinking.com/wiki/doku.php

Peter moved early 2008 from Germany to New Zealand. He is married with Petra and has 2 children, 2 and 3 years old. In Germany he was head of the public transport operation company in Wiesbaden, the Capital of Hesse. Later, Peter was CEO of German transportation consulting companies and he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to New Zealand, particularly in public transport. He worked on several consulting and planning projects in Germany as well as in Mexico City, Asia and Istanbul. Peter is has now established his own company, Stoeveken Consulting and he is working on projects for NZTA, Regional Councils and City Councils.

Dr. Susan Krumdieck
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering University of Canterbury.

Dr. Krumdieck studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Boulder, earned a Masters in Energy Systems Engineering, and the PhD (1999) in Mechanical Engineering. She has worked on wind turbine control systems, building energy management, solar system testing and certification, and as a contract researcher for NREL characterizing the combustion of biomass-derived oil. Recent research includes fuel cell platforms, continuity planning for remote island communities, wind-diesel hybrid design and modelling for Scott Base Antarctica, dynamic modelling of geothermal power plants, demand response innovations, travel behaviour adaptation with fuel price increase, and energy risks to transport activities and freight movements.

Dr. Krumdieck joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Canterbury in 2000 to pursue her interests in energy systems and sustainability. She founded the Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab as a focus for interdisciplinary research into innovations for social and environmental continuity during periods of declining energy and resource consumption.

Susan was appointed a member of the RSNZ Energy Panel in 2005. She serves on the UC Vice Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee. She is also a founding member of New Zealand’s National Energy Research Institute (NERI), serves on the NERI Steering Committee, and is the editor of the NERI Special Issue of international journal, Energy Policy.

Susan’s energy research focuses on innovations aimed at managing community wellbeing within the constraints of resource availability and environmental impacts.  The work aims to develop sustainability engineering fundamentals for low-fossil, low-impact energy systems.  The research objective is to innovate bridging technologies and control systems to manage transitional continuity. Since 2003, the AEMS Lab has explored engineering systems solutions to issues in personal transport and goods movement.

Graeme Seymour

Graeme has had 29 years in the auto industry. Firstly with NZMC (holder of Honda franchise) before becoming a senior manager responsible for the transfer/establishment of Honda NZ in 1988. Graeme was appointed Director of Honda NZ in 1990 and Managing Director (President) in 2002 and is the first non Japanese CEO/President in world wide Honda.

Graeme is a survivor of massive change as the auto industry transited from a highly protected car industry with local assembly to the worlds most open free market. This may be because he is a generator of change rather than survivor..

He is currently surviving the biggest change in auto motive history with
-       International auto makers in turmoil (many will not survive)
-        + big price up required  in NZ  because Exchange rate fall (from historic)
-       Worst world economic recession in history since great depression
-       Race to fuel efficiency/alternate power

This is Graeme’s fourth TRAFINZ conference have spoken on safety at Napier, technology improving safety & drive ability at Wellington and Sustainability in Auto in Taupo.

Jo Caccioppoli

As Head of Mobile at Gen-i, Joe Caccioppoli drives Gen-i's mobile strategy, leading a team responsible for delivering mobility solutions to help clients meet their business goals, playing a key role in supporting the development of Telecom's new XT Mobile Network.

Joe joined Gen-i in 2003 from the IT industry where he was General Manager of Software Products at Infinity Solutions (now Fujitsu). Before that, he was National Manager Strategic Accounts, U-bix Document Solutions.

Jim Otterson

Jim Otterson is a traffic engineer from California who moved to Australia in late 2006 to join Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia in their Brisbane office. Jim is a Fellow of ITE, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Australian Institute of Transportation Planning and Management. Jim is a Registered Civil Engineer, Traffic Engineer and Land Surveyor in California, a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and is pursuing Chartered Engineer status with Engineers Australia. Jim served as Traffic Manager for the Origin Alliance during the project implementation stage and continues to serve the Origin Alliance as a specialist advisor. Jim received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.