Speaker Plenary 1
Mr O P Agarwal, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank, USA [LTA Academy Board (LAAB) member]
Dr Hwang Kee Yeon, President, The Korea Transport Institute, Korea (MOC partner)
Mr Lim Bok Ngam, Acting Chief Executive, LTA, Singapore
Speaker Plenary 2
Prof Guo Ji Fu, Director, Beijing Transportation Research Center, China
Prof Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Director, International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan
Mr Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum, France
Speaker Plenary 3
Mr Goh Chye Boon, Tianjin Eco-City JV Company, China/ Singapore
Prof Anthony May, Research Professor of Transport Engineering, University of Leeds, UK (LAAB member)
Prof Lu Huapu, Director, Institute of Transport Engineering, Tsinghua University, China (LAAB member)
Speaker Plenary 4
Dr Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil & Env Engineering, Director, ITS Programme, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Karsten Schulz, Programme Director & Vice President of SAP, and Founder of SAP Research Centre Brisbane, Australia (SAP)
Mr Vinodh Swaminathan, Director, Business Development of Strategic Initiatives for ITS, USA (IBM)
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Keynote Speaker @WUTLS2010 - Mr. Vinodh Swaminathan
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Mr. Swaminathan is Director, Business Development for IBM’s Intelligent Transportation Systems initiative. He is a member of IBM’s Global Government industry team within the Sales & Distribution organization. In this role, Mr. Swaminathan works extensively with senior leaders within transportation agencies in central, regional, state and local governments. His focus is in helping these clients leverage innovative solutions and business models to drive transformation within the business of providing sustainable public transportation services to citizens.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Swaminathan was a member of IBM’s Corporate Strategy team for almost 5 years focusing on building sustainable big plays for IBM in new and emerging opportunities in Growth Markets like BRIC, ASEAN, etc. Mr. Swaminathan is responsible for the strategy and business development activities that led to the creation of IBM’s Smarter Planet agenda and more importantly several new business initiatives in the area of Smarter Grid, Smarter Water, Smarter Transportation and Smarter Cities.
Prior to his current role in IBM’s Corporate Strategy team, Mr. Swaminathan was the strategy leader for IBM’s Systems & Technology Group, a $20B+ business unit.
Prior to IBM, he has been involved in various leadership capacities in Marketing & Strategy Consulting, start-up ventures and engineering & manufacturing operations.
Mr. Swaminathan has a Masters degree in Materials Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia and a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India.
Keynote Speaker @WUTLS2010 - Dr Chin Kian-Keong
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An engineer by training, Dr Chin Kian-Keong has been involved in the planning, designing, implementing and constructing of various road and traffic management projects in Singapore, including the implementation of the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system. He is now the Chief Engineer, Transportation and concurrently the Group Director of the Transportation and Ticketing Technology Group as well as the Road Operations and Community Partnership Group. A key responsibility of his portfolio is the development and management of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He has presented and published many papers at conferences and technical journals and had shared his experiences in the National University of Singapore’s post-graduate academic programme over the past years.
Keynote Speaker @WUTLS2010 - Moshe E. Ben-Akiva
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Professor Ben-Akiva holds a Ph.D. degree in transportation systems from MIT. He has co-authored two books, including the textbook Discrete Choice Analysis, published by MIT Press, and over 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He also co-edited the book Recent Developments in Transport Modeling: Lessons for the Freight Sector published by Emerald. He directs the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab where two traffic simulators have been developed under his supervision: MITSIMLab, an open-source microscopic simulator; and DynaMIT, a mesoscopic simulator Рwhich includes algorithms for dynamic traffic assignment, traffic predictions and route guidance. Professor Ben-Akiva has received honorary degrees from the University of the Aegean, the University of Antwerp, the Universit̩ Lumi̬re Lyon and the Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). His awards include the Transportation Science Dissertation prize from the Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS), the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Effective Teaching Award, the MIT Samuel M. Seegal Prize awarded to professors who inspire students to pursue and achieve excellence, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, and the Jules Dupuit prize from the World Conference on Transport Research Society. He has worked as a consultant in industries such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, financial services and marketing for a number of private and public organizations, including Hague Consulting Group, RAND Europe, ChoiceStream and Cambridge Systematics, where he is a Senior Principal and a member of the Board of Directors.
Keynote Address:
SMART – Future Urban Mobility
Urban mobility is a field of enormous opportunity due to the confluence of several fundamental developments. These developments include: advances in computing, communications, and sensing technologies; the growing awareness of environmental sustainability issues; the aging of physical infrastructure in developed countries and the need for massive new infrastructure in less developed ones; and the recognition of the vast economic stimulus that can be generated by the modernization and renewal of urban mobility systems worldwide and by the alleviation of the social inequities that severely restrict the mobility of the urban poor.
The goal of the SMART (Singapore – MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) Future Urban Mobility Interdisciplinary Research Group (FM-IRG) is to develop, in and beyond Singapore, a new paradigm for the planning, design and operation of future urban mobility systems. This new research center is based on the premise that the advances in computing, communications and sensing technologies give us powerful capabilities to model, evaluate and optimize urban mobility systems. Organizationally, the project is structured around three pillars:
• Pillar 1: “Networked computing and control” (NCC) will develop enhancements to urban mobility systems using technologies such as mobile mesh networking, real time data fusion and visualization, on-board automation and smart infrastructure.
• Pillar 2: “Integrated modeling of mobility, land-use, environmental, and energy-use impacts” will develop a suite of powerful demand estimation, performance prediction and operation optimization tools, drawing on the availability of NCC-enabled information.
• Pillar 3: “Performance assessment and implementation” will enable more meaningful evaluation of alternative sustainability mobility systems and the development of institutional, regulatory, and pricing mechanisms to support them.
At the heart of the proposed approach will be SimMobility, a simulation platform with an integrated model of human and commercial activities, land use, transportation, environmental impacts, and energy use. This modeling engine will be linked with a range of networked computing and control (NCC) technology-enabled mobility innovations, and with operations research-based decision models, to analyze the impacts of various novel concepts, including real-time information and management systems, and innovative mobility services such as “mobility-on-demand,” and “green logistics”. We will link the behavioral models with state-of-the-art simulators to predict the impacts of mobility demands on transportation networks and services and on vehicular emissions. Similarly, land use models predict the evolution of urban real estate markets. These models also provide inputs to energy/material consumption models. Several challenges are evident: the integration of heterogeneous populations of agents based on highly diverse data sources on households and firms, their activities, trips, real-estate and equipment purchases and energy consumption; and the design and application of methodologies to validate model performance. Integration will allow us to simulate the effects of a portfolio of technology, policy and investment options under alternative future scenarios.
The main axiom for this integrated modeling approach is the premise that urban demands, such as energy and transportation demands are derived from human needs and demand for activities. Hence, a behavioral model of human activities is pivotal to this approach. To test the impact of different policies or investments accurately, we frame a model that microsimulates individual behavior (within the constructs of households and firms) in connection with the associated mobility and energy consumption patterns. The model converts these patterns into their appropriate resource consumption and aggregates these impacts over the entire population to generate the overall effect of the tested policy and/or investment. Once a model run is completed, several indicators can be post-processed from the model output to evaluate the tested policy and/or investment. This methodology allows us to capture the true relationship between transportation and energy in a way that would be abstracted by traditional macro-level models. Furthermore, it permits the identification of the role of each specific variable on the aggregate results, thereby allowing the model to serve as a decision support tool for urban planners and policy makers.
To test transportation system performance, an enhanced multi-modal DynaMIT, a mesoscopic transportation network simulation tool developed by the MIT ITS Lab, will be employed. A state-of-the-art model, designed to support real-time operations of a dynamic traffic management system (including dynamic congestion pricing and incident management), DynaMIT can also be used for offline planning applications, with the capability to account for individual travel choices. At another layer of detail, we expect to use an enhancement of MITSIMLab, also developed by the MIT ITS Lab. A microscopic traffic simulator, MITSIMLab can be used to analyze a range of traffic management system designs, including bus operations and traffic management systems and their interactions. An important challenge we will address in this integrated model will be the explicit consideration of freight movements. This will ultimately permit the analysis and design of integrated multi-modal passenger and freight urban systems.
These modeling capabilities will be employed to derive and apply new evaluation frameworks for sustainable mobility; to evaluate and expand innovative portfolios of future urban mobility options; to develop and apply advanced scenario planning techniques to account for future uncertainties; to design and experiment with alternative institutional configurations and alternative physical urban designs enabled by NCC innovations; and to identify paths for “exporting”/“adapting” the Singapore FM model.
Professor Ben-Akiva holds a Ph.D. degree in transportation systems from MIT. He has co-authored two books, including the textbook Discrete Choice Analysis, published by MIT Press, and over 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He also co-edited the book Recent Developments in Transport Modeling: Lessons for the Freight Sector published by Emerald. He directs the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab where two traffic simulators have been developed under his supervision: MITSIMLab, an open-source microscopic simulator; and DynaMIT, a mesoscopic simulator Рwhich includes algorithms for dynamic traffic assignment, traffic predictions and route guidance. Professor Ben-Akiva has received honorary degrees from the University of the Aegean, the University of Antwerp, the Universit̩ Lumi̬re Lyon and the Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). His awards include the Transportation Science Dissertation prize from the Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS), the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Effective Teaching Award, the MIT Samuel M. Seegal Prize awarded to professors who inspire students to pursue and achieve excellence, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, and the Jules Dupuit prize from the World Conference on Transport Research Society. He has worked as a consultant in industries such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, financial services and marketing for a number of private and public organizations, including Hague Consulting Group, RAND Europe, ChoiceStream and Cambridge Systematics, where he is a Senior Principal and a member of the Board of Directors.
Keynote Address:
SMART – Future Urban Mobility
Urban mobility is a field of enormous opportunity due to the confluence of several fundamental developments. These developments include: advances in computing, communications, and sensing technologies; the growing awareness of environmental sustainability issues; the aging of physical infrastructure in developed countries and the need for massive new infrastructure in less developed ones; and the recognition of the vast economic stimulus that can be generated by the modernization and renewal of urban mobility systems worldwide and by the alleviation of the social inequities that severely restrict the mobility of the urban poor.
The goal of the SMART (Singapore – MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) Future Urban Mobility Interdisciplinary Research Group (FM-IRG) is to develop, in and beyond Singapore, a new paradigm for the planning, design and operation of future urban mobility systems. This new research center is based on the premise that the advances in computing, communications and sensing technologies give us powerful capabilities to model, evaluate and optimize urban mobility systems. Organizationally, the project is structured around three pillars:
• Pillar 1: “Networked computing and control” (NCC) will develop enhancements to urban mobility systems using technologies such as mobile mesh networking, real time data fusion and visualization, on-board automation and smart infrastructure.
• Pillar 2: “Integrated modeling of mobility, land-use, environmental, and energy-use impacts” will develop a suite of powerful demand estimation, performance prediction and operation optimization tools, drawing on the availability of NCC-enabled information.
• Pillar 3: “Performance assessment and implementation” will enable more meaningful evaluation of alternative sustainability mobility systems and the development of institutional, regulatory, and pricing mechanisms to support them.
At the heart of the proposed approach will be SimMobility, a simulation platform with an integrated model of human and commercial activities, land use, transportation, environmental impacts, and energy use. This modeling engine will be linked with a range of networked computing and control (NCC) technology-enabled mobility innovations, and with operations research-based decision models, to analyze the impacts of various novel concepts, including real-time information and management systems, and innovative mobility services such as “mobility-on-demand,” and “green logistics”. We will link the behavioral models with state-of-the-art simulators to predict the impacts of mobility demands on transportation networks and services and on vehicular emissions. Similarly, land use models predict the evolution of urban real estate markets. These models also provide inputs to energy/material consumption models. Several challenges are evident: the integration of heterogeneous populations of agents based on highly diverse data sources on households and firms, their activities, trips, real-estate and equipment purchases and energy consumption; and the design and application of methodologies to validate model performance. Integration will allow us to simulate the effects of a portfolio of technology, policy and investment options under alternative future scenarios.
The main axiom for this integrated modeling approach is the premise that urban demands, such as energy and transportation demands are derived from human needs and demand for activities. Hence, a behavioral model of human activities is pivotal to this approach. To test the impact of different policies or investments accurately, we frame a model that microsimulates individual behavior (within the constructs of households and firms) in connection with the associated mobility and energy consumption patterns. The model converts these patterns into their appropriate resource consumption and aggregates these impacts over the entire population to generate the overall effect of the tested policy and/or investment. Once a model run is completed, several indicators can be post-processed from the model output to evaluate the tested policy and/or investment. This methodology allows us to capture the true relationship between transportation and energy in a way that would be abstracted by traditional macro-level models. Furthermore, it permits the identification of the role of each specific variable on the aggregate results, thereby allowing the model to serve as a decision support tool for urban planners and policy makers.
To test transportation system performance, an enhanced multi-modal DynaMIT, a mesoscopic transportation network simulation tool developed by the MIT ITS Lab, will be employed. A state-of-the-art model, designed to support real-time operations of a dynamic traffic management system (including dynamic congestion pricing and incident management), DynaMIT can also be used for offline planning applications, with the capability to account for individual travel choices. At another layer of detail, we expect to use an enhancement of MITSIMLab, also developed by the MIT ITS Lab. A microscopic traffic simulator, MITSIMLab can be used to analyze a range of traffic management system designs, including bus operations and traffic management systems and their interactions. An important challenge we will address in this integrated model will be the explicit consideration of freight movements. This will ultimately permit the analysis and design of integrated multi-modal passenger and freight urban systems.
These modeling capabilities will be employed to derive and apply new evaluation frameworks for sustainable mobility; to evaluate and expand innovative portfolios of future urban mobility options; to develop and apply advanced scenario planning techniques to account for future uncertainties; to design and experiment with alternative institutional configurations and alternative physical urban designs enabled by NCC innovations; and to identify paths for “exporting”/“adapting” the Singapore FM model.
Keynote speaker at WUTLS2010 - Dr. Huapu LU
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Dr. Huapu LU, professor, doctoral tutor, director of the Institute of transportation engineering of Tsinghua University
He has studied in Japan from 1987 and received his doctor’s degree in transportation engineering from Nagoya University in 1993. In 2001 he received the academic rookie award from Tsinghua University. He has presided over many research projects funded by the National Natural Science Fund, the national 9th and 10th five-year plans, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Public Security and other relevant ministries as well as more than 100 practical items involving transport planning, intelligent transportation etc carried out in many Chinese cities such as Dalian, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Wenzhou, Lanzhou etc. Now he is undertaking several national key research projects including National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China, National Key Technology R&D Program and Beijing road traffic flow dynamical forecasting system development and so on.
He has also published over 150 articles in journal of Tsinghua University, Proceedings of the Japanese Civil Engineering Society, Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development, China Journal of Highway and Transport, and other publications. He is also the author of a number of academic works such as "theory and method in transport planning", "modern urban traffic management," "integrated transport hub planning", "urban rail transit research and practice", "analysis of urban traffic", "intelligent transportation system", “Sustainable Urban Mobility in Rapid Urbanization: Theory and Practice in China” and "urban traffic management evaluation system".
His main research areas include: transport planning theory, intelligent transportation systems, and sustainable development of the transport system, road safety, and transport economics.
He now also serves in academic positions including the deputy head of the “smooth traffic project” panel of Ministry of Public Security, member of the urban transportation panel of the Ministry of Construction, member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems panel of the Ministry of Science and Technology, executive director of the STL, CCTA etc. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of "China Civil Engineering Journal", "Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology” and other publications. Dr. LU has also won an Outstanding Paper Award from the Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International (JSRSAI) in 1994.
Dr. Huapu LU, professor, doctoral tutor, director of the Institute of transportation engineering of Tsinghua University
He has studied in Japan from 1987 and received his doctor’s degree in transportation engineering from Nagoya University in 1993. In 2001 he received the academic rookie award from Tsinghua University. He has presided over many research projects funded by the National Natural Science Fund, the national 9th and 10th five-year plans, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Public Security and other relevant ministries as well as more than 100 practical items involving transport planning, intelligent transportation etc carried out in many Chinese cities such as Dalian, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Wenzhou, Lanzhou etc. Now he is undertaking several national key research projects including National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China, National Key Technology R&D Program and Beijing road traffic flow dynamical forecasting system development and so on.
He has also published over 150 articles in journal of Tsinghua University, Proceedings of the Japanese Civil Engineering Society, Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development, China Journal of Highway and Transport, and other publications. He is also the author of a number of academic works such as "theory and method in transport planning", "modern urban traffic management," "integrated transport hub planning", "urban rail transit research and practice", "analysis of urban traffic", "intelligent transportation system", “Sustainable Urban Mobility in Rapid Urbanization: Theory and Practice in China” and "urban traffic management evaluation system".
His main research areas include: transport planning theory, intelligent transportation systems, and sustainable development of the transport system, road safety, and transport economics.
He now also serves in academic positions including the deputy head of the “smooth traffic project” panel of Ministry of Public Security, member of the urban transportation panel of the Ministry of Construction, member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems panel of the Ministry of Science and Technology, executive director of the STL, CCTA etc. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of "China Civil Engineering Journal", "Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology” and other publications. Dr. LU has also won an Outstanding Paper Award from the Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International (JSRSAI) in 1994.
Keynote speaker @WUTLS2010 - Prof. Anthony D May
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Professor Tony May, Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of Leeds, has over 40 years' experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. He has been a professor at Leeds since 1977, where his principal research interests have focused on urban transport and sustainability. He has served as Director of the Institute for Transport Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Pro Vice Chancellor for Research. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1995, and awarded the OBE for services to transport engineering in 2004. Between 1985 and 2001 he maintained a link between research and teaching at Leeds and practical experience in consultancy with MVA Ltd, of which he was a director. Prior to 1977 he spent ten years with the Greater London Council, where he was responsible for policy on highways, traffic management, demand management and transport-related land use planning for the capital. He retired from the University of Leeds in 2009, but is still active in research, consultancy and professional development. He has been a consultant to a consultant to the OECD, the International Transport Forum, the World Bank, the US Transportation Research Board, the Singapore Land Transport Authority, the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and the Thailand Commission for the Management of Land Transport. He is currently President of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.
Green Transport for Eco-Friendly Cities: A European Perspective
In 2009 the European Commission published its Urban Mobility Action Plan, demonstrating clearly the need for national and international governments to address the growing problems of urban transport. The first action in the Plan is the encouragement of national governments and, through them, cities to develop Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Even this step will not be easy. While countries like France and the UK have up to 30 years’ experience of the development of such plans, many European countries have no such context, with governments typically leaving the initiative on urban transport to city governments. A detailed review of UK Local Transport Plans has demonstrated that cities’ performance in their Plans has been very variable. Differences emerge in the development of strategies, in their willingness to employ demand management measures and, in particular, in their ability to gain consensus over their proposals and to secure their effective implementation. In this, the UK experience confirms the conclusions of earlier reviews by the European Conference of Minister of Transport (now the International Transport Forum).
This presentation will consider the requirements of an effective Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, highlight the barriers to progress, and suggest ways in which these can be overcome. In doing so, it will draw on a recent five year research programme which has worked with cities to develop decision-support tools to facilitate effective and sustainable urban transport plans.
Professor Tony May, Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of Leeds, has over 40 years' experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. He has been a professor at Leeds since 1977, where his principal research interests have focused on urban transport and sustainability. He has served as Director of the Institute for Transport Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Pro Vice Chancellor for Research. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1995, and awarded the OBE for services to transport engineering in 2004. Between 1985 and 2001 he maintained a link between research and teaching at Leeds and practical experience in consultancy with MVA Ltd, of which he was a director. Prior to 1977 he spent ten years with the Greater London Council, where he was responsible for policy on highways, traffic management, demand management and transport-related land use planning for the capital. He retired from the University of Leeds in 2009, but is still active in research, consultancy and professional development. He has been a consultant to a consultant to the OECD, the International Transport Forum, the World Bank, the US Transportation Research Board, the Singapore Land Transport Authority, the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and the Thailand Commission for the Management of Land Transport. He is currently President of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.
Green Transport for Eco-Friendly Cities: A European Perspective
In 2009 the European Commission published its Urban Mobility Action Plan, demonstrating clearly the need for national and international governments to address the growing problems of urban transport. The first action in the Plan is the encouragement of national governments and, through them, cities to develop Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Even this step will not be easy. While countries like France and the UK have up to 30 years’ experience of the development of such plans, many European countries have no such context, with governments typically leaving the initiative on urban transport to city governments. A detailed review of UK Local Transport Plans has demonstrated that cities’ performance in their Plans has been very variable. Differences emerge in the development of strategies, in their willingness to employ demand management measures and, in particular, in their ability to gain consensus over their proposals and to secure their effective implementation. In this, the UK experience confirms the conclusions of earlier reviews by the European Conference of Minister of Transport (now the International Transport Forum).
This presentation will consider the requirements of an effective Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, highlight the barriers to progress, and suggest ways in which these can be overcome. In doing so, it will draw on a recent five year research programme which has worked with cities to develop decision-support tools to facilitate effective and sustainable urban transport plans.
Keynote speaker @WUTLS2010 - Goh Chye Boon
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Mr Goh is the Chief Executive Officer of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment & Development Co Ltd. As a flagship project between the People Republic of China and Singapore Governments, the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is envisioned to create a harmonious and sustainable community that meets the needs of an urbanizing China. Strategically located within the fast-growing Tianjin Binhai New Area and only 45 km away from the centre of Tianjin city, the 30 sq km Tianjin Eco-City will be a modern township where 350,000 residents can live, work and play. Mr Goh is also the Deputy Secretary (Special Projects) of Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and the board member of Economic Development Board. He was previously Deputy Secretary (Industry) of the MTI and Executive Director of External Department in the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He also has working experiences in Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Community Development, the People’s Association, National Youth Council and Ministry of Finance.
Keynote Address:
Green Transport for Tianjin Eco-City of China
China is experiencing tremendous changes which never happen in his historical development process over the 5000 years. The urbanizing process is accelerating continuously. China also starts to step into the era of family car from the kingdom of bicycle. In worldwide, global warming, environmental pollution, energy crisis, water shortage etc are threatening the social development and human life. It is right under such circumstance, Singapore and China governments signed the cooperation agreement in 2008 to build an Eco-City in Tianjin of China, to explore a new city development model with high efficiency, low energy consumption, low emission, less pollution and environment friendly. This development model shall be sustainable, replicatable and extendable.
Transportation networks are one of the key components of a city. Conventional or existing transportation models are not suitable for city development in China. The speaker will share the strategies and approaches of transportation planning adopted in Tianjin Eco-City from the following aspects:
(1) Development of green transport; (2) Planning of road networks;
(3) Urban railway transport; (4) Priority of public transport;
(5) Intelligent transport system; (6) Green vehicles.
Keynote Address:
Green Transport for Tianjin Eco-City of China
China is experiencing tremendous changes which never happen in his historical development process over the 5000 years. The urbanizing process is accelerating continuously. China also starts to step into the era of family car from the kingdom of bicycle. In worldwide, global warming, environmental pollution, energy crisis, water shortage etc are threatening the social development and human life. It is right under such circumstance, Singapore and China governments signed the cooperation agreement in 2008 to build an Eco-City in Tianjin of China, to explore a new city development model with high efficiency, low energy consumption, low emission, less pollution and environment friendly. This development model shall be sustainable, replicatable and extendable.
Transportation networks are one of the key components of a city. Conventional or existing transportation models are not suitable for city development in China. The speaker will share the strategies and approaches of transportation planning adopted in Tianjin Eco-City from the following aspects:
(1) Development of green transport; (2) Planning of road networks;
(3) Urban railway transport; (4) Priority of public transport;
(5) Intelligent transport system; (6) Green vehicles.
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