Using and Understanding the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management for Traffic Management Designers

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to our webinar on using and understanding the OSTROADS guide to temporary traffic management for traffic management designers.

We have over 770 people registered for today's session.

Thank you for joining us and welcome.

My name is Alison Gillespie.

I'm a communications officer at OSTROADS and I will moderate today's session alongside Peter Bilton and Patsy Thomas who will moderate the Q&A session of today's presentation.

I'd like to start by acknowledging the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the custodians of the land from which we are broadcasting today.

We are in Melbourne, and so I'm on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Eastern Kulin nations.

I pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging, and to their deep and ongoing connection to the land.

I would also like to acknowledge the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori as the original people of New Zealand.

Austroads is a collective of Australasian road transport and transport agencies.

Our focus is to deliver an improved road and transport network for our members.

Today's presenters will speak for around 40 minutes and then we'll have a Q&A session for 15 minutes.

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Our presenters today are Rosie Tuohy and Peter Bilton from Point 8.

Rosie Tuohy is a skilled senior traffic engineer and project manager.

She has extensive experience in traffic engineering, temporary traffic management, road safety and civil construction, and is passionate about keeping all road users safe.

Rosie leads Point 8's team supporting Austroads in the review and update of the AG TTM and provision of technical support for the TTM industry.

Peter Bilton is a director and primary traffic engineer.

Peter has over 20 years experience in traffic engineering, temporary traffic management and road safety.

He has overseen the research and publication of a number of Australia's guidelines, including the current updates to the AG TTM.

A warm welcome to both of our presenters and over to you, Rosie.