High speed rail begins with urban design
How can urban design thinking inform HSR planning, and what are the benefits of stronger interdisciplinary collaboration? This week I...
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Ross Lowrey
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High Speed Rail in Australia
This week Garry presented an overview of High Speed Rail in Australia to to the High Speed Rail Alliance in the USA. The Alliance is a...
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Ross Lowrey
Nov 173 min read
Include freight services on high speed rail
At the recent ARA High Speed Rail conference, the speaker from Deutsche Bahn said Germany ‘s integrated system has higher capacity...
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Ross Lowrey
Nov 103 min read
How will high speed rail promote growth in regional Australia?
Last week I described how our colleague, Phil Potterton, has determined the economic impacts of introducing high speed rail services...
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Ross Lowrey
Nov 33 min read
How does high speed rail promote regional growth?
Our colleague, Phil Potterton, considers the economic impacts of introducing high speed rail services from a major city to a regional...
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Ross Lowrey
Oct 272 min read
Creating cities-based regions
I was pleased to hear Rob Stokes promote his vision of ‘cities-based regions’ at a planning webinar run by SGS Economics & Planning this...
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Ross Lowrey
Oct 203 min read
The rail industry is waking up
It has been a struggle, but the Australasian Rail Association (ARA), the peak rail body in Australia, is at last showing signs that it...
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Ross Lowrey
Oct 132 min read
The sorry state of current rail services
“What are we missing out on by not having a consistent, on-time, modern and efficient regional rail service?” Currently Australia’s...
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Ross Lowrey
Oct 62 min read
Our wish is granted - planning has started
Last week, we blogged that planning should start for high speed rail into Melbourne. Today, Tim Parker, HSRA CEO, said that planning...
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Ross Lowrey
Sep 292 min read
Promoting growth in Victoria
The northeast rail corridor of Victoria serves, or could potentially serve, the rapidly growing suburbs to the north of Melbourne (from...
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Ross Lowrey
Sep 171 min read
High speed rail may be arriving
Public opinion is starting to believe we may finally see high speed rail in Australia in the next decade if we start building the...
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Ross Lowrey
Sep 12 min read
Spain has modernised with high speed rail
Spain is similar in size and density as south east Australia. We should use it as guide for the implementation of high speed rail.
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Ross Lowrey
Aug 252 min read
Integrating the Sydney-Newcastle corridor
Garry and I have been busy over the last few weeks preparing papers that address integration of high speed and conventional rail lines in...
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Ross Lowrey
Aug 183 min read
Developing A New Plan For Victoria
Victoria needs a new plan for settlement based on high speed rail connections to regional cities The High Speed Rail Authority has...
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Ross Lowrey
Aug 113 min read
Phased acquisition of faster passenger trains
New types of trains are needed to fully utilise high speed rail We won’t see the very fast high speed trains running between Sydney and...
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Ross Lowrey
Aug 43 min read
An Australian way to implement high speed rail
Australia needs a staged approach to implement high speed rail. Many commentators say that Australia’s cities are too far apart and our...
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Ross Lowrey
Jul 282 min read
HS1 provides a template for the HSRA
HS1 provides a template for high speed rail in the Sydney-Newcastle corridor. HS1 in the UK shows that high speed rail should be...
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Ross Lowrey
Jul 212 min read
Connectivity for Productivity
High speed rail will re-shape settlement and economic activity in Australia. High speed intercity and fast regional rail offer the best...
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Ross Lowrey
Jul 152 min read
An abundant supply of affordable housing
Decentralisation into regional centres connected by high speed rail will provide an abundant supply of affordable housing for many...
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Ross Lowrey
Jul 102 min read
High Speed Planning
It's been a busy time for us with the mini-conference in Sydney and Andrew McNaughton's visit to Melbourne. So I missed out on telling...
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