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Events, conferences & seminars
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April 2008
Railways in London and the South East
Event: The rail White Paper of July 2007 set out the short-term strategy for railways in London and the South East between 2009 and 2014 and gave the final go-ahead for the Thameslink project and Crossrail. Franchises have been relet, but serious questions remain as to how the Government‚s commitments will work out in practice and how sustainable they will be. An impressive panel of speakers at this major one-day conference considers whether the level of investment provides enough capacity for the growing demands of the region‚s business economy or sufficient support for development and widespread regeneration?
Date: 23 April 2008
Location: London Transport Museum, London
Organiser: Landor Conferences
Contact: Priya Hirani
Telephone: + 44 (0) 845 270 7965
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk
Internet: www.landorconferences.co.uk
May 2008
The role of transport in planning for sustainable growth & regeneration
Event: Over the coming years, transport will play a far greater role than before in achieving sustainable growth and regeneration by mitigating the impacts of new development. This major one-day conference will help planning authorities, developers, consultants and transport operators address the demanding choices associated with managing mobility whilst achieving growth and regeneration through residential and commercial development.
Date: 8 May 2008
Location: Manchester
Organiser: Landor Conferences
Contact: Priya Hirani
Telephone: 0845 270 7965
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk
Internet: www.landorconferences.co.uk
Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference + Expo 2008
Event: The 14th Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference + Expo 2008 is the premier fuel and vehicle neutral conference and exposition in the world. The conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, 11 to 14 May at the Rio All-Suite Hotel. This four-day event attracts 2,000 registered attendees and features a high-level conference and a well-organized expo attended by public and private fleets as well as all of the major companies in the alternative fuels industry. The conference + expo features: hundreds of presentations from fleets, government officials, academics, and industry leaders from around the world; a 55,000 square foot exposition hall with 125+ exhibitors; a ride-n-drive of a wide range of alternatively fueled and powered vehicles; public day; networking events; and training workshops addressing critical issues for fleets. Sponsor, exhibitor, and registration information is available at the conference website.
Date: 11 to 14 May 2008
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Organiser: AFV Institute
Contact: Jackie Lanning
Telephone: +1-702-254-4180
Email: info@afvi.org
Internet: www.afvi.org/NationalConference2008/
Reforming Transport Governance in England's sub-regions and city regions
Event: The Local Transport Bill gives local and passenger transport authorities in England the power to create new governance structures for transport delivery across sub-regions and city regions. This includes the ability to set up integrated transport authorities. Many authorities are already reviewing their transport governance arrangements in anticipation of the powers being enacted. Ministers say they want to give authorities the flexibility to choose the new governance model that best suits their needs, so the precise powers granted to any area will be set out in secondary legislation.This conference will provide a focus for discussion of these issues and offer an insight into the most appropriate way forward for local authorities across England.
Date: 20 May 2008
Location: London
Organiser: Landor Conferences
Contact: Priya Hirani
Telephone: + 44 (0) 845 270 7965
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk
Internet: www.landorconferences.co.uk
June 2008
Cities for Mobility World Congress 2008
Event: The event is aimed at providing a dynamic platform for advancing direct cooperation in the field of sustainable urban mobility between local and regional governments, but also other partners from business, science and society at large. This year’s thematic focus will be on the interplay of ‘traffic and environment’ in our cities enabling participants to discuss and exchange experiences as well as to present examples of best practices.
Important projects currently are under development, such as the cooperation between the City of Stuttgart and the venues of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil for the organizing of modern, sustainable urban transportation systems, or the promotion of alternative drive system technologies by communities in the Alpine region. Other cooperative initiatives, which were initiated during the last World Congress and offer municipalities innovative approaches to the solution of their problems will be presented at this year’s Congress.
Date: 1 - 4 June 2008
Location: City of Stuttgart
Organiser: Municipality of Stuttgart
Contact: Patrick Daude
Telephone: 0049 7112168501
Email: patrick.daude@stuttgart.de
Internet: www.cities-for-mobility.org
Via Nordica 2008
Event: The Via Nordica 2008 congress is the 20th Nordic Road Congress arranged by the Nordic Road Association. The topics are focusing on the needs and challenges of the road traffic system today as well as in the future.
Date: 9 - 11 June 2008
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Organiser: Nordic Road Association
Contact: Mikaela Jussila
Telephone: +358 204 22 7636
Email: info@vianordica2008.fi
Internet: www.vianordica2008.fi
Moving On Conference 2008:
Reducing the barrier to travel
Event: Merseytravel is proud to be hosting the next Moving On Conference in Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture 2008. This key annual conference, supported by ITSO, ITS and Smartex and the Department for Transport, is taking place in the magnificent surroundings of St George's Hall. on 16-18th June 2008. The Moving On Conference is one of the few events where those delivering transport services are able to join with local and national politicians and other key transport decision-makers to look at real problems and consider innovative solutions.
Date: 16 - 18 June 2008
Location: St Georges Hall, Liverpool
Organiser: Benchmark Communications
Contact: Katie Beton
Telephone: 0191 244 2830
Email: Katie@benchcom.co.uk
Internet: www.moving-on-conference.co.uk
Transport Modelling Forum 2008
Event: This year, the third annual Transport Modelling Forum has had a change of format! On Thursday, 18 June, at the ThinkTank, Birmingham a highly respective team of speakers will come together at this exciting event to talk about ‘Realism and Managing Uncertainty’.
The first session of the day is chaired by Ian Emslie from Legion. Stephen Joseph from Campaign for Better Transport, Derek Halden from Derek Halden Consultancy and Alan Kerr from London Underground, all talk about the uncertainty in forecasting. The second session sees SKM, Mott MacDonald, WSP and the Highways Agency present case studies of how they dealt with realism and managing uncertainty. The final session is where you, the delegate, can influence the programme in ‘Modellers Question Time’.
Date: 18 June 2008
Location: ThinkTank, Birmingham
Organiser: Landor Conferences
Contact: Abbie Rees
Telephone: +44 (0) 845 270 7865
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk
Internet: www.transportmodelling.co.uk
September 2008
Urban Transport 2008
Event: Thirteenth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century. Transportation in cities, with its related environmental and social concerns continues to be a topic of the utmost priority for urban authorities and central governments around the world. Frequently, the concern is not orderly but driven by the safety crises which take place regularly and even the best planned urban transport systems require considerable studies to safeguard their safety, maintenance and operational use. The conference series has always attracted a wide international spread of delegates and is now well established as the premier annual event of its type.
Date: 1 -3 September 2008
Location: Malta
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/urban08/index.html
COMPRAIL 08
Event: Eleventh International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway And Other Transit Systems. The conference aims to update the use of computer-based techniques, promoting their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. The meeting provides a forum for engineers, planners, designers, manufacturers and operators, to discuss how they can benefit from the latest developments. It will also provide a forum for transit and rail operators.
Date: 15 -17 September 2008
Location: Toledo, Spain
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/comprail08/index.html
Cities of Opportunity
‘The urban promise of upward mobility’
(An EUKN International Conference)
Event: Europe is a city. Some 75 per cent of Europeans live in urban areas. They are responsible for over 80 per cent of all economic activity. Prosperous cities‚ equals a prospering Europe. At the same time, opportunity and prosperity are not equally distributed within the city. Every European urban area contains neighbourhoods, districts, streets that are more or less deprived. Deprived urban areas are often viewed as being problematic and harmful within the urban fabric.
From a more positive point of view, deprived urban areas hold an enormous potential for socio-economic development. The challenge is to harness the potential of deprived urban areas and their inhabitants and offer them opportunities to access the wider society.
The 2008 edition of the European Urban Knowledge Network’s (EUKN) international conference will change the perception of deprived urban areas as an accumulation of problems to a view that is more in line with the actual situation in our cities. The conference will focus on how to harness the potential and energy present in deprived urban areas and on exploring ways in which these areas and their inhabitants can play their part in the creation of comprehensive, well-balanced and vital cities.
Speakers include:
• Patrick Le Galès, Research Director at CNRS and at Sciences Po
• Ella Vogelaar, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration
• Opstelten, Mayor of Rotterdam
• Dominic Schrijer, Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam
The social programme includes a boat tour on the River Maas and a panoramic conference dinner wioth a view of the Rotterdam skyline.
‘Cities of opportunity ˆ the urban promise of upward mobility’ is organised by the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in co=operation with the City of Rotterdam, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Nicis Institute. EUKN is a decentralised knowledge network with National Focal Points (NFPs) in 16 EU Member States. Nicis Institute hosts the EUKN Secretariat.
Cost: €200 for two conference days
Early Bird (before 15 July): €150 for two conference days
Date: 22-23 September 2008
Location: City Hall - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Organiser: European Urban Knowledge Network
Contact: Bart Nijhof
Telephone: +31 70 344 0513
Email: bart.nijhof@nicis.nl
Internet: click
Networks for Mobility 2008
Event: The members of the Centre of Transportation Research of Universitaet Stuttgart (FOVUS) announce the 4th International Symposium Networks for Mobility which is to be held on 25 and 26 September 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany. The symposium will emphasize the network aspects of transport in all presentations but with focus on major projects, thus maintaining the conference’s unique profile compared with other events:
A. Transportation System Planning
B. Traffic Control and Telematics
C. Transportation and Environment
The first three symposia in 2002, 2004 and 2006 were very successful at bringing together representatives of various disciplines in an interdisciplinary exchange on technical, economic and social aspects of mobility. The representatives - from urban and regional planners to economists and ecologists, to transportation planners, traffic engineers and vehicle engineers - had fruitful discussions across the respective fields. This interdisciplinary exchange should be continued during the symposium 2008 with the theme of sustainable mobility by networking. The symposium offers an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging ideas, presenting experiences and introducing new methods. We cordially invite you to actively participate in the Symposium by sending us an abstract of the topic you would like to present by 29 February 2008.
Date: 25 - 26 September 2008
Location: Stuttgart
Organiser: Centre of Transportation Research, University of Stuttgart
Contact: Stefan Fina
Telephone: +49 (0)711 685 66337
Email: fovus@fovus.uni.stuttgart.de
Internet: www.uni-stuttgart.de/fovus
June 2009
Urban Transport 2009
Event: The International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has been successfully reconvened annually for the last fourteen years. It has always attracted a wide international spread of delegates and is well established as the premier annual event of its type. The variety of topics covered by the conference are of primary importance for analysing the complex interaction of the urban transport environment and for establishing action strategies for transport and traffic problems. The Conference will be of interest to engineers, scientists and managers working in industry, universities, research organisations and government; involved in the planning and management of urban transportation systems and transport policy.
Date: 22 - 24 June 2009
Location: Bologna, Italy
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0) 2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2009/urban09/index.html
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