Praveen Thakur
Partner, Transport & Infrastructure
KPMG Australia
Praveen is the Transport & Infrastructure Lead Partner for Management Consulting and leads the KPMG's focus on Future Mobility. He has extensive experience advising clients on connected and autonomous vehicles, electric and other zero emission vehicles and mobility-as-a-service, long term transport plans, transport policies and major transport infrastructure projects.
Praveen has advised on major transport projects such as EastLink, East-West Link, Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project, WestConnex and the North East Link. He is currently advising on the Melbourne Airport Rail Link and the Suburban Rail Loop.
He has also authored number of journal articles and thought leadership reports on range of topics including transport technology and its impact on societal wellbeing and urban renewal impacts of transport.
Praveen led the development of Australia’s first agent and activity based transport model (the KPMG Melbourne Activity and Agent Based Model) and used this to advise on the transport impact and infrastructure requirements of the Autonomous and Zero emission vehicles.