Doc Frank chats with Oliver Fried from Sydney, Australia, about Metros but also about High Speed Rail and the common topics between them. Learn how Sydney Metro compares to big hitter metros like Hong Kong or London, how new rail services need to be integrated into wider public transport networks, how Sydney Metro could inform the High Speed Rail planning for Australia, and much more.

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Doc Frank teams up with two experts on ETCS interoperability testing from Belgium. Learn about practical problems with ETCS interoperability in Europe, what is being done to improve it in the future and how countries starting out on their ETCS journey (such as Australia) can optimise their chances of getting it right from the start.

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Doc Frank chats with Matthew Rea from England where people need to be careful what they can say publicly these days. This difficulty to find discussable topics led to the famous idea from the comedy show Seinfeld to have “a show about nothing”. As you can imagine that talk was of course about something, and something interesting at that. Let yourself get surprised.

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Doc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail strategy for Sydney. This talk has been split into three parts to get shorter episodes without losing the depth of longer conversations.

In this third part, expect to learn the difference between visionary and delusional transport planning, why execution eats strategy for breakfast, the importance of open debate for a robust strategy, how Sydney got to a collaborative culture of suburban and metro rail complementing each other, and much more.

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Doc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail strategy for Sydney. This talk has been split into three parts to get shorter episodes without losing the depth of longer conversations.

In this second part, expect to learn the effect of line capacity on whether a metro line should branch out, examples of great interchanges, criteria for picking a cross-city alignment, why the focus should be on passengers rather than trains, which metro inspired the evolution in Sydney, how to get a leading edge solution while avoiding bleeding edge, and much more.

Please enjoy and subscribe so that you get notified about all other insightful episodes of this podcast. And you can support the continuation of this show even more by noticing and acting on the following:

ONO (Or Nearest Offer) is back! You can now negotiate how much you want to pay for world class training on advanced signalling and railway capacity increase by checking out the training portal https://docfranktraining.podia.com and then sending an email to training@docfrank.com.au with the training(s) or conference recording you are interested in and the price you want to pay for it. If considered reasonable your offer will be accepted, otherwise we may negotiate a bit, but in any case this is a great opportunity for you to advance your knowledge in modern signalling at a discount of your liking.

Doc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail strategy for Sydney. This talk has been split into three parts to get shorter episodes without losing the depth of longer conversations.

In this first part, expect to learn the importance of a whole-network view for any new investment, how a great strategy can lead to complacency down the line, what led to the creation of an additional railway mode in Sydney, what informed the plan to convert of one of the oldest lines in Sydney to a driverless metro service, and much more.

Please enjoy and subscribe so that you get notified about all other insightful episodes of this podcast. And you can support the continuation of this show even more by noticing and acting on the following:

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Doc Frank chats with Louise Hart from Sydney in Australia, an internationally renowned book author and specialist on governance and procurement of mega projects. This talk has been split into three parts to experiment with shorter episodes without losing the depth of longer conversations.

Please enjoy this third and last part and make sure you subscribe so that you get notified about the other episodes of this podcast.

Show notes:

1) Good news for anyone who wants to dive deeper into Louise’s immense procurement knowledge. Her bestselling book “Procuring Successful Mega Projects” is now available in paperback at a price more than 70% lower than the original hardcover book. Here is a link if you want to check it out:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/procuring-successful-mega-projects-louise-hart/book/9781032837246.html?source=pla&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsJO4BhDoARIsADDv4vBVFtYEBfGpyaXM_kaIfVtAZanyn__CKSx3eyQT7Zsw4uwbshcAilMaAuRSEALw_wcB

2) ONO (Or Nearest Offer) is back! You can now negotiate how much you want to pay for world class training on advanced signalling and railway capacity increase by checking out the training portal https://docfranktraining.podia.com and then sending an email to training@docfrank.com.au with the training(s) or conference recording you are interested in and the price you want to pay for it. If considered reasonable your offer will be accepted, otherwise we may negotiate a bit, but in any case this is a great opportunity for you to advance your knowledge in modern signalling at a discount of your liking.

Doc Frank chats with Louise Hart from Sydney in Australia, an internationally renowned book author and specialist on governance and procurement of mega projects. This talk has been split into three parts to experiment with shorter episodes without losing the depth of longer conversations.

Please enjoy this second part and make sure you subscribe so that you get notified about the other parts of this insightful talk.

Show notes:

1) Good news for anyone who wants to dive deeper into Louise’s immense procurement knowledge. Her bestselling book “Procuring Successful Mega Projects” is now available in paperback at a price more than 70% lower than the original hardcover book. Here is a link if you want to check it out:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/procuring-successful-mega-projects-louise-hart/book/9781032837246.html?source=pla&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsJO4BhDoARIsADDv4vBVFtYEBfGpyaXM_kaIfVtAZanyn__CKSx3eyQT7Zsw4uwbshcAilMaAuRSEALw_wcB

2) ONO (Or Nearest Offer) is back! You can now negotiate how much you want to pay for world class training on advanced signalling and railway capacity increase by checking out the training portal https://docfranktraining.podia.com and then sending an email to training@docfrank.com.au with the training(s) or conference recording you are interested in and the price you want to pay for it. If considered reasonable your offer will be accepted, otherwise we may negotiate a bit, but in any case this is a great opportunity for you to advance your knowledge in modern signalling at a discount of your liking.