[sustran] MIT China Planning Network Urban Transport Congress

Eric Britton eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Tue May 22 01:02:04 JST 2007


On Behalf Of Jinhua Zhao

MIT China Planning Network Urban Transportation Congress
Beijing, China
August 2-4, 2007
Call for Paper and Participation

Dear All,

With three quarters of the world's public transport capital investment
in the coming two decades and a similar proportion of severe transport
problems, China requires the best possible intellectual, political,
and industrial support for its urban transport needs. The China Planning
Network has undertaken to organize the CPN Urban Transportation Congress in
Beijing, jointly with
•       Massachusetts Institute of Technology
•       China Association for Science and Technology
•       China Xinhua News Agency

The Congress dates are Aug 2-4th, 2007. The venues are
•       Plenary conference: Great Hall of People, Beijing
•       Parallel sessions: Beijing International Conference Center

The CPN Urban Transportation Congress will be the highest profile conference
ever held in China on urban transportation. The three day Congress will
feature over 100 presentations in the plenary conference and 12 parallel
sessions, and will welcome 1200~1500 participants, including academic
scholars and students from universities and research institutes; government
officials from the China Ministry of Communication, China Ministry of
Construction, and National Development and Reform Commission; mayors,
transportation directors and planning directors from major Chinese cities;
and transportation professionals from private industries.

Please visit the CPN Congress website http://www.ChinaUrbanTransport.com/
for more information. The Congress media include
•       Xinhua News Agency.Outlook Weekly
•       Xinhua News Agency.Globe Biweekly
•       Financial Times, Chinese
•       Economic observer

The parallel sessions include
•       China National and Municipal Urban Transportation Policies
•       Managing Urban Congestion: Policies and Practices
•       Urban Transportation Planning: A Comparative Perspective-- Beijing,
London, New York, Chicago
•       Public Transportation: New Paradigm in China
•       Intelligent Transportation Systems and Urban Information Systems
•       Integrating Land Use and Transportation
•       Social Aspects of Urban Transportation
•       Green Transport: Cars, Energy, and Environment
•       Financing Urban Transportation Projects in China
•       Mobile Media and Urban Transportation
•       Mega Transportation Projects: International Experiences and
Cooperation
•       Interdisciplinary Transportation Education

Invited speakers include
•       Prof. Joseph Sussman, MIT
•       Prof. Nigel Wilson, MIT
•       Prof. Ralph Gakenheimer, MIT
•       Prof. Karen Polenske, MIT
•       Prof. Joseph Ferreira, MIT
•       Prof. Adele Santos, MIT
•       Prof. Stephen Connors, MIT
•       Prof. Michael Meyer, Georgia Tech, Chairman of TRB
•       Prof. Vukan Vuchic, University of Pennsylvania
•       Mr. Dave Wetzel, Vice-Chair, Transport for London
•       Mr. Kirk Steudle, Michigan Department of Transportation Director
•       Dr. Deepak Bhattasali, Lead Economist, World Bank
•       Prof. Stephen Glaister, Imperial College, UK
•       Prof. Harry Dimitriou, University College London, UK
•       Prof. Robert Cervero, UC Berkeley
•       Mr. Sam Casella, Former President of AICP
•       Prof. Randall Crane, UCLA
•       Prof. Hugo Priemus, TU Delft, the Netherlands
•       Ms. Pamela  L. Boswell, Vice President, American Public
Transportation
Association
•       Dr. Andres Rabinowicz, Vice President, Caliper Corporation
•       Prof. Ming Zhang, University of Texas at Austin
•       Prof. Zhong-Ren Peng, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
•       Mr. Daniel Yang, Austin's Capital Area Metropolitan Planning
Organization
•       Ms. Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of the Energy Technology
Innovation
Project, KSG, Harvard University
•       Mr. Sam Zimmerman, Urban Transport Advisor, World Bank
•       Ms. Robin Chase, Founder and CEO of GoLoCo, Founder and Former CEO
of Zipcar
•       Prof. Frank Moss, Director of Media Lab, MIT (tbc)
•       Chancellor Phillip Clay, MIT (tbc)
•       Mr. John Flora, PIDG, Former Director of Urban Transport, World Bank
(tbc)
•       Mr. Neil D. Schuster, President and CEO, ITS America (tbc)
•       ......

In addition to the presentations by the invited speakers, the Congress will
accommodate 25~35 presentations from the Call for Papers. You are welcome to
attend the conference and to submit an original and high quality paper
around the topics of the 12 parallel sessions. The deadline for submitting
the abstract (no more than 250 words) is June 5th, 2007, and the full paper
is due July 10th, 2007.  The paper should be written in English, and should
be no more than 7,000 words. Papers will be selected by a review committee
for conference presentation and publication in the proceedings.

Together with the Congress, we are organizing 1) CPN World Transportation
School Admission Open House and 2) Roundtable Discussion with Beijing
Transportation Committee on Beijing 11th Five Year Transportation Planning
and 2020 Long term Plan. We will announce the details of the CPN Open House
and CPN Roundtable Discussion soon.

Thank you very much for your support to China Planning Network. Please let
us know if you have any further questions/suggestions to the CPN Urban
Transportation Congress. We look forward to seeing you in Beijing this
summer.

Best,
Ming Guo, Zhan Guo, Jinhua Zhao
Executive Commissioners
China Planning Network

Faculty Advisor
Lawrence J. Vale, Head and Professor of Urban Design and Planning
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NOTE:

The China Planning Network (CPN) has run three successful previous
conferences at Harvard in 2004, at MIT in 2005, and in Beijing in 2006. Last
year in Beijing, the China Planning Network 3rd Annual Conference featured
116 presentations and discussions in nine parallel tracks.  It welcomed over
1000 participants, including 100 scholars, 100 mayors and planning
directors, a letter of congratulations from China's Vice-Premier Mr. Zeng
Peiyan, and a keynote speech by China Congress Vice-Chair Mr. Jiang Zhenhua.

As MIT President Susan Hockfield wrote in a congratulatory letter to CPN in
2006, "The China Planning Network has become a significant way for students,
faculty, and practitioners from the west to engage with the rapidly changing
development scene in China. Through the efforts of the China Planning
Network, MIT and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP),
continue to lead the world to bring the advanced knowledge on urban planning
and development to bear on China's urbanization challenges."

For information about CPN and the previous conferences, please visit:
www.ChinaPlanningNetwork.org

Contact Methods:
Organizing Committee MIT Office:
Jinhua Zhao jinhua at mit.edu
Zhan Guo guozhan at mit.edu
Tel: (617) 230-4090
Room 7-337, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, 02139
U.S.A.

Organizing Committee Beijing Office
Ming Guo Guoming at mit.edu
Tel: +86-(0)10-82150296
Fax: +86-(0)10-82150269
Block A, Room 505, Science Park Tower
Tsinghua Science Park
Beijing, China



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