Academic Workshop

The academic workshop on September 21 aims primarily at bringing together people from the academic community and participants in research programmes/projects supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. Of course, all other conference participants are also encouraged to take part. It will be possible for participants to give presentations (oral or poster) after acceptance of abstract during the workshop (see instructions for abstract submission). The oral presentations will be followed by discussions.

Student travel grants
The Volvo Educational Foundation will provide financial assistance to a limited number of full-time Ph.D. students actively engaged in urban transport research. Acceptance of an oral or poster paper is a requisite for an award. Submit the application form together with an abstract.

Workshop programme

Saturday, September 20

Welcome reception buffet 19.00-22.00 at Göteborg Convention Centre for academic workshop participants and other conference participants arriving early.

Sunday, September 21

09.00-09.15 Opening of the Academic workshop by Prof. Bengt Kasemo, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Volvo Educational and Research Foundations, Göteborg, Sweden.

09.15-10.15 Key-note lecture by Prof. David Marks, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Boston, USA: "Academic studies of complex engineered systems and how this new knowledge can be used to improve education and practice"

10.15-11.15 Presentation by Dr Dinesh Mohan, TRIPP, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India: "Safety and sustainable urban transport"

11.15-12.00 Discussion and Poster Review (see list below)

12.00-13.30 Lunch at Göteborg Convention Centre

13.30-14.30 Presentation by Dr Ahmad Athman Kanyama, Department of Infrastructure - Urban Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Dr Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Environmental Strategies Research Group, Stockholm, Sweden: "The effect of inadequate institutional co-ordination on the development of sustainable urban transport: An analysis of the city of Dar-es-Salaam"

14.30-15.30 Presentation by Major Desmon Brown, Metropolitan Management Transport Holdings Limited, Kingston, Jamaica: "The 'non-technical' issues that create barriers to successful implementation of urban transport projects in developing countries"

15.30-16.30 Presentation by Mr. Alexander Walter, ETH UNS Natural and Social Sciences Interface, Zurich, Switzerland: "Study of change processes in complex real-world systems that struggle for sustainability"

19.00-22.00 Welcome reception and conference registration (see conference programme)

Poster presentations

Martin Schiefelbusch, Nexus Institute for Co-operation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Germany: "User Representation and Citizens' Involvement in Urban Public Transport - Creating and Maintaining Productive Relations Between Customers, Providers and Politics"

Mahesh Patankar, SJM School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, India: "Characterizing large-scale technological transitions in the context of Indian economy with a generic framework and its application in the transport sector energy efficiency, particularly with the fuel switching options"

Priyanka Jain, Center of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Hong Kong: "Moving Hong Kong: How Effective is Privatisation?"

Mark Keppens, Limburg University Centre, Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences, Belgium: "The use of tradeable vehicle kilometre permit system towards a Sustainable Road Transport System"

Imran Muhammad, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia: "Impact of Global Institutions on Urban Transport in Pakistani Cities"

Anvita Ananad, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India: "Access to transport and mobility issues of the low income people in Delhi"

Alejandro Lago, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA: "Reconsidering the spatial analysis of congestion"

Marie Thynell, Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University, Sweden: "The role of Motorized Mobility in Development"