Flows of Finance and the Flows of a City: How One Corporation Came to Control Australia's East Coast

18 NOV 2016 (FRI) | 19:00-20:00

CPD-2.14, 2/F, Central Podium Level, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong.

Speakers:

Phillip O'Neill Director of the Centre for Western Sydney at Western Sydney University

Phillip O’Neill is Director of the Centre for Western Sydney at Western Sydney University. He is an Economic Geographer and an internationally renowned researcher into the economies of cities. He currently leads two Australian Research Council projects on urban infrastructure financing. Phillip is a prominent public commentator and newspaper columnist. He is also the writer of a number of significant reports into the costs of long-haul transport infrastructure for serving Sydney’s ever expanding suburbs.

Abstract:

Transurban is one of the world’s largest motorway corporations and the operator of the major tolled motorways in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. The seminar examines the reasons for the growth and success of Transurban, why the private financing of motorways in Australia is successful, and why alternative investments in public transport in these cities are failing.

Chair:

Prof. Becky P Y Loo

Organizers:Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning, HKU (MATPP)

Institute of Transport Studies, HKU (ITS)