Geoff McKernan

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G.McKernan Consulting

Geoff has 40 years’ experience in Motorway and Tunnel operation, maintenance and emergency management in both the public and private sectors, within Australia, Europe and North America. This experience includes Motorway, Tunnel and Road Traffic Management and Business Management as well as the establishment and management of control rooms.

Prior to retirement in 2021 Geoff was an employee of Transurban and TransLink Operations. Geoff was the General Manager at TransLink Operations, the Operator of CityLink, until Transurban brought these functions in-house in 2014. Geoff joined CityLink in 1998 and was responsible for establishing, commissioning and ongoing management of the operations and emergency management and the traffic control room functions. Geoff also participated in a number of other projects outside of the CityLink project, including the commissioning and opening of the M5East tunnel in Sydney, Dublin Port Tunnel and the emergency exercise at the Mont Blanc tunnel prior to its reopening after the fire. He has also undertaken a number of control room reviews in Australia and New Zealand.

Geoff was a founding member of the Australasian Tunnel Operators Group, an industry group of tunnel Operators whose aim is to provide and promote safe operations. He also performed a lead role in the development and implementation of the National Training Qualification TLI40519 – Certificate IV in Traffic Control Room Operations.