Keeping WA Moving is our strategic direction; it underpins everything we do. It defines our aspiration: To provide world class outcomes for the customer through a safe, reliable and sustainable road-based transport system.
Area of Focus
Our four focus areas emphasise on delivering value and are based on the current and future needs of customers and stakeholders.
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Customers
Provide a transport network centred on what our customers need and value
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Movement
Improve mobility of people and the efficiency of freight
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Sustainability
Develop a sustainable transport network that meets social, economic and environmental needs
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Safety
Provide improved safety outcomes for all users of the transport network
Our Guiding Principles
These principles reflect our values and are about how we operate.
- We will strive to improve sustainablity and community amenity
- We will put the customer and their experience at the centre of everything we do
- We will continue to build and maintain strong relationships with the Transport portfolio to achieve better transport outcomes
- We will be an agile and responsive organisation that can propser in a rapidly changing environment
- We will develop and invest in leaders that will challenge the status-quo in a real and authentic way
- We will recognise and cultivate innovation to take up challenges and stay ahead
Our Values
These are the foundation upon which our organisation is built. They represent our culture, guide our behaviours, and influence decision-making and relationships with each other, our customers and partners.
Roads matter: Taking pride in managing the road network for the benefit of the community.
Working together: Enhancing relationships and teamwork.
Excellence in customer service: Understanding and providing what is important to our customers.
Embracing challenge: Anticipating and taking up challenges.
Professionalism: Delivering the highest standards of service and expertise.
Family: Respecting and supporting our customers, the community and each other.
Strategic research, innovation & collaboration
We undertake significant activity to develop and enhance our collective knowledge of economic, environmental and social topics through a range of partnerships and research collaborations.
By closely collaborating and partnering with industry and research institutions we undertake leading-edge road and transport research.
These collaborations and partnerships include:
- Austroads
- ARRB
- Western Australian Road Research and Innovation Program (WARRIP)
- Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC)
- Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBENRC)
- Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research
Our internal Innovation and Research Program encourages our people to collaborate, learn, solve problems and explore new and innovative opportunities. This allows us to solve real business problems or explore new opportunities in conjunction with the organisations listed above as well as universities, cooperative research centres and the private sector.
During the year, nine new projects were approved and we had 22 active projects. Our new projects have a variety of topics and scope; examples include bridge health monitoring, testing of new drainage assets and exploring new technologies.