Unlock the Secrets to Addressing Transport Challenges!

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Addressing transport challenges is a complex and multifaceted task. To successfully address transport challenges, it is essential to identify key issues and devise strategies that meet the needs of today’s decision makers while also evaluating their effectiveness over time. Professionals in the transport sector are confronted with a range of escalating issues. From the need … Read more

How to Use Critical Thinking for Problem Solving

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Don’t just accept everything you read or hear – question and discard any biases by critically assessing the information and making up your own mind. When you use critical thinking techniques to solve problems in your personal or professional life, you can be much surer of a better outcome.  Here are the recommended steps in … Read more

What Does It Really Mean to Think Strategically?

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Have you ever thought about what it means to think strategically?  Does it mean to create strategies like in a war? Is it a skill you are born with or something you learn? Strategic thinking seems like a vague buzzword that senior management tosses around to sound important.  Actually, strategic thinking is a skill we … Read more

What Does It Take to Be A Strategic Thinker?

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“Curious, Not Judgmental.” – Walt Whitman Strategic thinking is a skill in how we think, assess, view, solve problems, and create our future for ourselves and others.  It’s basically knowing what you to achieve and how to achieve it. It’s not always easy to develop a strategic approach, as it’s both mindset and techniques.  Strategic … Read more

What is the difference between tactical and strategic thinking?

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Let’s look at a few obstacles that currently stand in your way.

By exposing and eliminating these obstacles or problems, you’ll be able to develop your career and be more satisfied than you ever thought possible. These are the same overriding concepts that successful career builders understand and operate on.

The format of this section will be similar to a medical diagnosis. You’ll see the problem, its symptoms, cause and an overview of the solution.

Let’s take a look at one fundamental problem most people experience.
Symptoms: Try every tactic that looks like it’ll make you successful
Cause: Tactical thinking
Problem: Lack of strategy.

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Critical Thinking for Problem Solving

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When you use critical thinking techniques to solve problems in your personal or business life, you can be much surer of a satisfying outcome.  Critical thinking helps you to make sense of and discard biases and beliefs and statements that are hurled at us through media. Here are some ways that you can use critical … Read more

How to Deal with Uncertainty when Investing in Transport 

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Current practices for investing in transport are flawed, due to forecasts of future travel used to inform important transport investment decisions.  Unfortunately, future estimates are uncertain, as forecasts are influenced by some factors that are unexpected, unpredictable, difficult to predict, and outcomes are not easily quantifiable. Forecasting Transport Using Models Transport models are used to … Read more

What does successful transport integration really mean?

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A large proportion of Australians live in cities. Our cities are shaped by where people live, work, learn, shop and play and how they travel around. As transport users, we want connected trips. Transport connectivity is key to enabling the best use of resources, with an emphasis on sustainability.

Reducing the overall socio-economic cost of transport infrastructure and services is key to achieving sustainability.

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