About ITLS

The Key Centre

Management structure

International cooperative links

ITLS-Sydney

The spirit and challenge of ITLS

Articulated training

Industry links

Keeping aware of activities at ITLS

Meeting objectives

Related links

ITLS staff

Discipline flyer

Annual reports

ITLS awards night

The Key Centre

The two-node Centre is recognised by the Australian Federal Government as the National Centre of Excellence in teaching and research in transport and logistics management. The Australian Key Centre was established in July 1995 as a joint venture between the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS) within the Graduate School of Business at the University of Sydney and the Monash Transport Group within the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne. These two groups were leading Australian centres in transport and traffic management education and research in their own right prior to the establishment of the Key Centre. In January 1998, ITS Sydney relocated to the Faculty of Economics (now the Faculty of Economics and Business) and in January 2005 it was renamed as the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) to reflect its new focus. The Key Centre continues to have integrated nodes at the University of Sydney (ITLS-Sydney) and Monash University (ITS-Monash) http://civil.eng.monash.edu.au/its.

The Director of the Key Centre is Professor David Hensher (Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Recipient of the Engineers Australia Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation) who is regarded as one of Australia’s most eminent transport academics and someone in high demand as an adviser to industry and government www.itls.usyd.edu.au/about_itls/staff/davidh.asp. The Deputy Director in Sydney is Professor Peter Stopher internationally recognised for his research in travel survey methods and data collection, as well as his recent work on travel behaviour adaptation www.itls.usyd.edu.au/about_itls/staff/peters.asp. The ITLS-Sydney team consists of over 30 staff www.itls.usyd.edu.au/about_itls/staff.asp. Associate Professor Geoff Rose heads ITS-Monash, which has nine staff.

Management structure

The management structure of the Key Centre is shown in the diagram below.

International Cooperative Links

Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds

ESRC Transport Studies Unit, University College London

Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford

Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine

Departamento de Ingenieria de Transporte, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Departamento de Ingenieria de Transporte, Universidad de Chile

Transportation and Traffic Engineering Section, Delft University of Technology

Stern School of Business, New York University

Department of Regional Transport and Port Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Centre for Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia

About ITLS-Sydney

The spirit and challenge of ITLS

If there is one thing that our past students have said about studying at ITLS it is the high quality of the academic program and the commitment of academic and support staff in ensuring that one’s time at ITLS is not only a learning experience but a period of conviviality in one's life. Everyone wants to engage in new learning as well as make new contacts from around the world and leave with a feeling of belongingness and achievement. This is the ITLS mission.

While our program is focused on academic objectives, we recognise the need for diversity in the set of management and specialist skills that produce well-rounded managers and leaders of the future. Our students like the opportunity to gain a solid grounding in the development of theory, strategy and practice backed with appropriate technical skills in transport and logistics management. The range of core and elective units of study in transportation, logistics and general management sharpen (or whet) the appetite of all our students.

These ensure that the diversity of study is shaped by a need to acquire certain basic skills in management and planning. Most importantly we set ourselves the challenge to produce reflective students who can ask penetrating and lucid questions on current issues. ITLS recognises that communication skills are as important as technical skills. How often is someone impressed with the way in which a position is articulated? ITLS graduates are given the opportunity to acquire these skills through the diversity of learning media such as face to face lectures, debates, group projects, video-recorded presentations and feedback as well as on-line study. With over 23 countries represented in our student body we are truly international. The networking has proven to be a most valuable part of the ITLS experience. We hope you will be motivated to want to participate in our program.

ITLS-Sydney Cares, Inspires, Educates and Creates employment opportunities for its students

Articulated training

Within a University environment, ITLS has been singularly successful in introducing a fully articulated series of management-oriented learning programs to cater for a very diverse background of participants. The diversity accommodates individuals with no formal tertiary education through to those with undergraduate qualifications. The opportunity for individuals to enter our non-award courses certificate grams and to articulate through to the Graduate Certificates of Transport and Logistics Management, the Graduate Diplomas in Transport and Logistics Management, and the Masters of Transport and Logistics Management is impressive. In addition, we offer the opportunity to combine the specialist Masters programs with a number of selected Masters programs offered by the University of Sydney and the possibility to undertake postgraduate research through our PhD or MPhil program. For further details of our graduate program see: www.itls.usyd.edu.au/graduateprogram

Industry links

A major strength of ITLS is its success and reputation in the custom design and delivery of training programs to suit the needs of particular organisations. ITLS has appropriate infrastructure to delivery award and non-award programs anywhere in Australia, programs that may be delivered in face-to-face, distance and / or on-line mode. We hope that future partnerships with industry will assist us in the upgrading of some infrastructure in a way that recognises the industry partner's support and secures world class facilities for delivering a training and education program. There are significant tax incentives for such activity. We always encourage a strong quality partnership between ITLS and a specific organisation or industry association in the development and execution of such programs. Such a partnership would involve some component of teaching by industry personnel. To illustrate this capability we refer to the very strong association and quality partnership forged between ITLS and the Bus and Coach Association of NSW and with the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW.

In partnership with the Bus and Coach Association of NSW ITLS has developed a program designed to meet the requirements for accreditation for bus and coach companies in NSW under the Passenger Transport Act, as well as executive programs in this area. ITLS offers an online accreditation program (minimum standards) for new entrants to the industry and for incumbents wishing to stay up to date on accreditation requirements as part of the annual self audit. In addition, we offer a Certificate of Bus and Coach Operations for supervisors and a Certificate of Transport Management for managers and advisers to the industry. For full details of these programs see: www.itls.usyd.edu.au/busandcoach

The Advanced Certificate in Transport and Traffic Management (ACTTM) was originally developed in partnership with the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW and is now available to all transport professionals who wish to advance their ability to analyse the social, environmental and business aspects of transport planning and management and develop creative new solutions by broadening their intellectual base and deepening their understanding of transport. Individual modules of the program may be taken as short courses, the successful completion of which may be used as credit towards the ACTTM or the graduate program. For full details of the program see: www.itls.usyd.edu.au/executive programs

Keeping aware of activities at ITLS

As well its academic and training program the Institute has an extensive program of related activities including contract research to industry and government, publications, participation at conferences, software development, and links to other leading transport and logistics institutes around the world, especially in the USA, UK, Canada, The Netherlands, Chile, Brazil and Sweden.

Current updates on the diversity of activity at ITLS are readily available by visiting our home page:

www.itls.usyd.edu.au

If you wish to keep up to date with ITLS events and activities please join our mailing list by emailing:

itlsinfo@itls.usyd.edu.au

Meeting objectives

The primary objective of ITLS is to undertake graduate teaching, executive programs, grant and contract research and development in the fields of transport and logistics management. The table below show the objectives of ITLS in detail and provides performance measures to demonstrate how well the Key Centre is meeting each objective.