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Earlier this year, Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management Incorporated (AITPM) offered Curtin students the chance to win tickets to the 2018 AITPM National Conference in Perth 24 – 27 July, valued at over $1500 each.

This fantastic opportunity, uploaded onto UniHub, asked students to write a one page summary explaining why they should attend. The Curtin students whose submissions were successful were:

• Anjali Parmar – Bachelor of Arts (Urban and Regional Planning)
• Harriet Farminer – Bachelor of Arts (Urban and Regional Planning)
• Harrison Fleming – Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Commerce (Civil and Construction Engineering Double Degree)
• Lloyd Baker – Civil and Construction Engineering
• Marthinus Minnaar – Bachelor of Arts (Urban and Regional Planning)

Marthinus has taken the time to share his experience:

“My experience at the 2018 AITPM National Conference was one I won’t be forgetting anytime soon. Before applying for the university student award, I had no idea what AITPM even stood for let alone what the conference was going to be about. However, I am very fortunate to have received the award to attend the conference. I would encourage anyone mildly interest in transport planning to jump at an opportunity like this to attend the next national conference.

I found the transport planning community to be a very small and tight knit group as they all knew each other. With every person I spoke there was someone else who they wanted to introduce me to. As such I was able to connect with many industry professionals who are very good at what they do and had no problem talking to a university student like myself.

The conference came at the perfect time for me as I had just been accepted into honours and needed to select a topic for my thesis. I had a keen interest in freight and logistics planning and this was the first year where there was a freight stream on offer. As such, I gained a wealth of knowledge in relation to freight planning and spoke to some great people who are actively involved in freight planning for Perth. Through conversation with these professionals I was more inspired to take on freight as a research topic and find out more about this field of transport planning which is so often forgotten. One month on from the conference I am still keeping in touch with some professionals who I connected with at the conference and they have been extremely helpful and willing to support my thesis project.

The transport planning community in Perth is certainly one which I would love to be a part of as a working professional and I am very grateful for the opportunity to attend the 2018 AITPM national conference thanks to the university student award.”

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