Mr Peter Thornton, speaking at High Speed Rail World Australia 2011

Mr Peter Thornton,
General Manager - Infrastructure Select
WorleyParsons

Peter has been involved in most of the recent major proposals and studies for High and Very High Speed Rail Links in Australia. He has been an adviser to the Commonwealth Government of Australia, the New South Wales State Government, a Joint Secretariat of the Governments and the private sector on this matter. He commenced his interest in High Speed Rail when assisting Systras staff working on the VFT project in the mid 1980s.
Peter acted as Bid Manager for the Capital Rail Consortium in the Sydney-Canberra High Speed tender and later was appointed a technical adviser to the Commonwealth on the SpeedRail Bid.
The report which he directed for DOTARS on an East Coast High Speed Rail cited below remains on the Commonwealths Government website as a definitive statement on high speed rail in the Australia context.
Peter recently was appointed by Australias Cooperative Research Centre for Rail (Rail CRC) as one of three Independent expert reviewers of its 2009 report entitled: High-speed Rail: Strategic information for the Australian context. Peter is currently acting as reviewer of final year student projects on HSR at the University of Sydney.
Peter has presented papers at international conferences on High Speed Rail in Australia and in Madrid and was a delegate to the EurailSpeed 98 Conference in Berlin. He recently was a delegate to the Financing & Developing High Speed Rail in the USA Conference held in February 2010 in Chicago.

Appearing:

Conference Day One, Tuesday 30 August 2011

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