Realising the opportunity of shared, connected, electric and autonomous transport calls for matching levels of professional innovation. Changing settlement and work patterns, coupled with the rise of automation, will reset many assumptions around travel behaviour.
Overall, Australian transport reforms must maintain the recent momentum of transformation, as well as responding to the legacy impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The way Australia plans, delivers, uses and pays for transport over the next 15 years will have to deal with long-term shifts in the sector, the community and the economy.