Nick Veitch
Planwisely
As Managing Director of Planwisely and Veitch Lister Consulting, Nick provides leadership across VLC’s multidisciplinary team, spanning over 60 professionals across Australia and the UK. He has advised clients across Australia and abroad and has been involved in several major infrastructure projects including North East Link in Melbourne, North-South Corridor in Adelaide, Canberra Light Rail, Sydney Metro and Brisbane’s Inner-City Rail Capacity Study.
Nick has broad experience in both management and technical roles at VLC, including transport modelling and web-based platform development, the latter resulting in the development of urban analytics platform Planwisely.
Nick is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM) and is the current National Chair of the AITPM Transport Modelling Network. Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and an Executive MBA.
How PlanTech can support regional council planning
Councils in urbanised areas have a wealth of spatial tools and relevant datasets at their fingertips to use in their decision-making process, but what about regional councils?
While many believe there’s a dearth of options available, there are ready-to-use spatial datasets that regional councils can leverage and extract fresh insights from with the help of spatial analytics tools. Through the use of PlanTech solutions, regional councils can harness the power of major datasets – such as Census data, GPS mobile trace data – to improve their planning processes and guide decision making in meaningful ways.
Our presentation will showcase the ways in which common (and innovative) datasets can be utilised in simple and intuitive ways to find unique insights for regional councils. This will be done in a visual and practical way using urban analytics platform, Planwisely.
