Workshop: Travel Demand Management: an on-ongoing challenge
Venue: University of Aberdeen (hosted by the Centre for Transport Research)
Date: Monday 23rd March 2009
Director
Prof John Nelson (Director, Centre for Transport Research, University of Aberdeen)
Co-Directors
Dr Neil Ferguson (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde)
Dr Wafaa Saleh (Transport Research Institute, Napier University)
Outline of the workshop
Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures are well established in transport engineering and planning and are routinely promoted as “packages” within policies intended to encourage more sustainable travel behaviour. The Scottish Government have recently announced a programme of ‘Sustainable Travel Demonstration Communities’ which will implement packages of “hard” (e.g. infrastructure-type measures such as cycling and walking networks) and “soft” or “smarter” measures (e.g. personalised travel planning or car clubs) across 7 sites. However, the political and institutional issues which impact on the implementation of TDM measures remain an on-going challenge worldwide. The objective of the workshop therefore is to share best practice experience in the implementation and evaluation of TDM and contribute to future policy-making in Scotland and beyond.
Programme
| 10:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 11:00 |
Prof John Nelson, Introduction to the Workshop |
| 11:15 |
Prof Gerd Sammer, Director, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. Economic cost-effectiveness of TDM measures regarding their environmental impact |
| 11:45 |
Prof Michael Bell, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London. Shared Surfaces: Travel Demand Unmanagement |
| 12:15 |
Discussion |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Ian Maxwell, The Scottish Government. The Smarter Choices Smarter Places programme |
| 14:00 |
Derek Halden, Director, DHC Ltd, Edinburgh. How can practitioners justify the case for investment in smarter choices? |
| 14:15 |
Discussion |
| 14:30 |
Poster Session |
| 15:30 |
Close |
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