Enhancing mobility
Aurecon's Steve Dudley, Transport Principal in New Zealand explains how New Zealand's experience developing cost-effective solutions to deliver and expand existing bus services can benefit South East Queensland.
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With Queensland’s urban population rising and infrastructure demands intensifying, high-quality, reliable Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems are key to creating fast, safe, accessible, and future-focussed transport networks.
Delivering next-generation mass transit isn’t just about building more, it’s about building smarter to deliver scalable infrastructure that also wins public support, spends funds wisely, and minimises impacts on community – both during construction and operation.
When done well, BRT can deliver the capacity and reliability of light rail with greater flexibility, faster implementation, and lower cost. For Queensland’s growing cities and regions, BRT projects offer opportunities to enhance mobility, shape liveability, reduce congestion, support decarbonisation goals and create connected, thriving communities.
BRT can deliver the capacity and reliability of light rail with greater flexibility, faster implementation, and lower cost.
We asked some of our experts about the key considerations for bringing Bus Rapid Transit systems to life to support Brisbane’s growth. Watch these videos and discover what it takes to design smarter, faster busways and integrated public transport systems.
1:30Aurecon's Steve Dudley, Transport Principal in New Zealand explains how New Zealand's experience developing cost-effective solutions to deliver and expand existing bus services can benefit South East Queensland.
1:25Aurecon’s Dr Ben McGarry, Decarbonisation Practice Leader – Australia, provides insights into the sustainability, operational, and cost-efficiency benefits, as well as the infrastructure, energy and planning challenges, of electrifying and decarbonising public bus fleets.
1:14Kristy Lamb, Associate, Integrated Transport – Australia shares her knowledge on how to design stations that are safe and accessible for all people
1:20Aurecon’s Corey Baldwin, Technical Director, Transport – Australia, shares his insights on how to improve certainty and create greater value through proactive risk management, coordinated planning, and reimagining existing bus operations.
Aurecon’s BRT expertise supports a deep understanding of what it takes for success. Our enduring role on Auckland’s Northern Busway offers a new blueprint for what is possible: evolving a highly efficient, successful system through pragmatism, innovation, cost effectiveness, and minimal disruption.
Aurecon has been instrumental in the success of Auckland's Northern Busway, including the initial design in 2003, its extension in 2022 and most recently developing a business case and strategy for enhancements to accommodate Auckland’s growth for the next 20 years. In 2025 Aurecon provided updates to this business case to ensure funding is secured, plans are up to date and can enable ongoing improvements of Auckland’s public transport connections to meet future capacity demand.
As Queensland forges towards its ambition to deliver reliable sustainable and inclusive transport, we will apply the learnings from Auckland and bring our global expertise to enhance and transform the transport networks for future generations.
We bring a powerful combination of local insight and global experience, having shaped some of the world's most complex public transport systems.
Delivering mass transit projects demands integrated transport infrastructure expertise in strategic planning, public transport planning, urban design and integration, environmental planning, stakeholder engagement, infrastructure advisory, and sustainability performance combined with the right technical, cost and constructability expertise in rail & mass transit, roads & transport networks, bridges & civil structures, operations and maintenance.
Systems thinking, and a focus on adaptability, deliverability, and community alignment are essential for success.
At Aurecon, we bring a powerful combination of local insight and global experience, having shaped some of the most complex and successful public transport systems – from business case, strategic planning and design, through to delivery and operations.
Systems thinking, and a focus on adaptability, deliverability, and stakeholder and community alignment are important for Bus Rapid Transit projects, due to their visibility and potential impact on communities. Robust and diverse thinking during the planning stages can de-risk projects and are critical to long term success, it takes an experienced partner to identify the hidden risks to create value and delivery certainty.
To find out more, get in touch with one of our team members below.
Principal, Transport – New Zealand
Design Director – Australia
Technical Director, Transport – Australia
Industry Director, Transportation – Australia
