The ARA’s upcoming Understanding Rail course will highlight several hot topics in rail across Australia and New Zealand when it launches next month in a new user-friendly format enabling participants to choose when they want to learn.
The online, five-week course featuring some of the industry’s most respected experts, offers a comprehensive introduction to the rail industry, with industry updates on changes that are impacting rail and insights into the people, systems and structures that are integral to the operation of rail.
For the first time, the course is now offered in a more flexible format with “self-directed” learning, meaning participants can undertake the modules at a time that suits them in a five-week window.
The ARA has filmed new content for the five modules, with interviews and panel discussions with our policy leaders on the topics of passenger rail, freight and heavy haul, the supply chain, safety, sustainability and technology.
Discussions include safe working and trends in technology that are improving rail safety, the benefits of increasing rail freight productivity for the economy and environment, the current challenges faced by the supply chain and how to build a more resilient and sustainable rail industry for the future.
The course includes the following learning objectives:
- Gain insight into the role rail plays in communities and the benefits rail brings,
- Understand the components of passenger, heavy haul and freight railway operations and maintenance,
- Learn about the importance of safety in the operation of a railway and the critical focus on sustainability in all aspects of rail,
- Understanding the critical role of the supply chain, and
- Insights into the people that work in the rail industry.