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Investment in Active Transport continues to increase in Australia and globally. The challenge is how to track investment benefits and to determine where the next cycleway or pedestrian walkway needs to be built. How to measure number of people using the infrastructure is difficult as there is no event which tracks the commencement or completion of a journey unlike Bus, Ferry, Light Rail, Metro or Train modes where a card is used to tap-on and tap-off indicating a distinct journey.This presentation covers how Transport for NSW is using data from multiple sources such as sensors, Strava, DSpark & Bureau of Meteorology and data science to model journeys and kms travelled across LGAs, regions and state. This allows calculation of health, sustainability and economic benefits to complete the benefits profile for an investment. On the qualitative side, Transport for NSW is capturing Voice of Customer from social media, surveys and other digital channels to understand what customers are saying and convert it into Walking, Cycling and Commuter Sentiment score. Once the quantitative and qualitative data are combined, it provides a near real-time pulse of Active Transport. This capability compliments connecting corridors strategy with data for future investments.

About Speaker

Sandeep Mathur is a Director – Active Transport at Transport for NSW where he manages Portfolio, Data & Analytics functions. He is also Fellow of Australian Institute of Company Directors; Fellow of Australian Computer Society and an Industry Fellow at University of Technology Sydney. He has over 20 years project/program/portfolio management experience in organisations such as Transport for NSW, First Data, Westpac, HSBC, Commonwealth Bank, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, IBM, CSC, Fujitsu and Tourism Australia. He is a certified Program Management Professional (PgMP) & Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI); certified SAFe Consultant (SPC) & Agile Project Management (AgilePM) Practitioner; certified Management of Portfolio (MoP) Practitioner and certified Proscii Change Management consultant. 

Sandeep became a member of PMI in 1999 and has held several PMI Sydney Chapter Board positions over 14 years, including 2 years as President. Besides PMI, he has been on several other for-profit and not-for-profit Boards in past 20 years. He is currently Chair of the ACS - National Diversity & Inclusion Council; Member of ACS Member Advisory Board and Member of Standards Australia's IT-030 Committee for IT Governance & Management. Besides teaching Portfolio and Program Management at UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building, he is also doing Doctoral Research on topic "Managing Data Science Initiatives as Exploratory Projects: A New Approach to Program Management".