Conference Proceedings

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Academic workshop

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Conference opening

Presentation of outcome of previous conference and ongoing activities supported by Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, by Professor Bengt Kasemo, Chairman of the Scientific Council of VREF, Sweden.
Slides - Paper

Questions raised within FUT concerning Politics, Research, Trade and Industry, and the Definition of sustainable mobility - and how this might change over time, by Mr Måns Lönnroth, CEO, MISTRA, The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, and member of the Board of VREF, Sweden
Slides - Paper (pdf, 68 kB)

Session 1: What is a good transport system and why is it good?

Mr Stéphane Lecler, Councillor of the Deputy Mayor in charge of transport, City of Paris, Hôtel de Ville – Bureau, Paris, France
“Sharing urban space to achieve sustainable mobility: the Paris experience"
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Professor Francesco Filippi, Professor of Transport and Logistics, Director of the Research Center for Transport and Logistics, DITS University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
“Making distribution logistics in big cities more sustainable: rail transport solutions”
Slides (pdf, 520 kB) - Paper

Professor Kevin O’Connor, Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
“What is a Good transport System? A Production and Consumption Perspective”
Slides - Paper (pdf, 2 MB)

Session 2: The path to achieving a good system - what is generic and what is specific knowledge

Dr Geetam Tiwari, TRIPP Chair Associate Professor for Transportation PlanningTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme/Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
"Path to achieving a good transport system: Lessons learnt from Bogota to Delhi"
Slides (pdf, 420 kB) - Paper

Dr Xavier Godard, director of research in INRETS, France
“Coping with paratransit in developing cities, a scheme of complementarity with institutional transport”
Slides (pdf, 420 kB) - Paper

Professor Pan Haixiao, Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
“Urban Transport Development in Shanghai”
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Session 3: What is the barrier to the transfer of know-how?

Professor Carlos F. Daganzo, The Robert Horonjeff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
"Urban gridlock: Macroscopic modeling and mitigation approaches"
Slides (pdf, 320 kB) - Paper

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Sustainable Urbanism - The Mobility Benefits of Accessibility Planning”
Slides (pdf, 7 MB) - Paper

Professor John Robinson, Sustainable Development Research Initiative (SDRI) in the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“Pathways to Sustainable Mobility: Two examples at different scales”
Slides (pdf, 9 MB) - Paper

Mr Jorma Halonen, Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO, AB Volvo, Sweden
Slides - Paper

Session 4: How, why and when to change mindsets to create sustainable transport?

Professor Elliot Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development-Earth Institute Columbia University, USA
"Future Urban Transport and achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Some Lessons from Nairobi."
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Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK
“Imagining a post-automobile age”
Slides (pdf, 5 MB) - Paper

Mr Bernt Nielsen, Director of Public Transport, Traffic and Public Transport Authority, Göteborg, Sweden
”Development of the urban transport system: the Göteborg experience”
Slides (pdf, 3 MB) - Paper