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15 March 2007, Centre des Congres

8.30  Welcome

9.30  Opening Speech, Jean-Luc Moudenc, President of Polis, President of Tisséo and Mayor of Toulouse

10.00 Round Table on the Future of Local Transport for Attractive Cities and Regions in Europe

Chair : Marc Paoloni, European correspondent for the economic & financial newspaper La Tribune.

Participants: Toomas Sepp, deputy mayor in charge of transport, City of Tallinn; Roman Jakic, deputy mayor in charge of transport, City of  Ljubljana; Paul Astier, vice-president of the Communauté urbaine of Lille, in charge of urban transport; Arcangelo Merella, deputy mayor in charge of transport, City of Genoa; Erik van Merrienboer, alderman for mobility, transport and traffic, City of Eindhoven.

11.00 Inauguration of the Exhibition Area

11.30 Parallel Sessions

• Roundtable - Road User Charge: the ultimate demand management tool in urban areas?

Chair: Steve Kearns, Transport for London

Opening statement from the Curacao project, leading European Cities promoting progressive pricing, Jennie Leggatt, Transport & Travel Research Ltd

Participants: Maurizio Zamboni, City of Bologna; Jo Baker, Mott MacDonald; Michael Aherne, Dublin Transportation Office. 

• Integration of modes & measures, and partnerships for clean mobility

Chair: Councillor Jean Yates, Lancashire County Council

Maximising intermodality between public tranport & cycling, Erl Wilkie part 1, part 2 Cycling Scotland

Reducing the environmental and health impacts of transport with clean vehicles, air quality plans and promotion of soft modes - good practice in Suceava. Marie Launay, Transport & Travel Research Ltd.

Kyoto Protocol and urban mobility in Rome, Fabio Nussio, Atac, Mobility Agency of the City of Rome.

• Improved management and information for efficient transport systems

Chair: Serge Mathieu, City of Toulouse

The future of the Euro-regional projects – cooperation between national and urban road operations, Richard Harris, WSP Group

Traffic Management in the Greater Stuttgart Region, Holger Bach, Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation

Integrated travel information: from local to Europe-wide - the ITISS project, Eileen O’Connell, Interactions Ltd; Brendan O’Shea, Independent Consultant

• Security of Transport systems

Chair: Councillor Tex Pemberton, West Sussex County Council

Tackling (the perception of) insecurity through design of public transport areas, Anne Leemans, Ydesign Foundation.

Example of the City of Porto, Manuel Paulo Teixeira

Example of the City of Rotterdam, Nuria Vico Staudt and Martin Beyer, Rotterdam Centraal

13.00 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Parallel Sessions

• Managing freight transport in European port cities and regions

Chair: Julio Garcia Ramón, City of Barcelona

Wales and the Atlantic Arc : Developing ports and economic regeneration, Prof. Stuart Cole, Wales Transport Research Centre, University of Glamorgan

Sustainable Freight transport for Maritime City Regions, Michael Lloyd, Association of Maritime Regions In Europe (AMRIE)

• CIVITAS Mobilis Session

Chair: Isabelle Kardacz, deputy head of the unit "Clean transport and urban transport", European Commission, DG Energy and Transport

CIVITAS MOBILIS partner cities:

The Ljubljana bio-diesel experience difficulties to face and potential to develop; Roman Jakic, City of Ljubljana

The Odense approach for the public awareness and the individual marketing towards a sustainable mobility; Troels Andersen, City of Odense

The Toulouse context and the presentation of the integration of the accompanying measures around the new metro line construction; Alexandre Blaquière, Tisséo, City of Toulouse

• Roundtable on network management systems of the future

Chair: Prof. Mike McDonald, University of Southampton

Participants: Vincent Blervaque, Ertico; Birger Elvestad, City of Trondheim; Marshall Poulton, Transport for London; Maurizio Tomassini, ISIS; André Vits, Transport unit, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission; Siemens.

Conclusions: Michael Aherne, Dublin Transportation Office

• Urban road safety benchmarking across Europe: European cities supporting the European Road Safety Action Programme

Chair: Robert Trottein, Laser Europe

Participants:
Cristina Pou, City of Barcelona
Dominique Michel, City of Toulouse
Jaroslav Mach, City of Prague

16.30-18.00 Parallel Sessions

• Transport solutions to fight exclusion

Chair: Karsten Möring, city of Cologne

How to ensure that transport investments plays a positive role in improving social equity?, Jo Baker, Mott-Mc Donald

Local partnerships in transport to combat social exclusion, Neil Scales, Merseytravel

ASK-IT and The Hague Smartline: support for the visually impaired, Toine Molenschot, the Hague

• Round table on Clean Zones

Chair: Martin Lutz, Berlin

Participants: Mark Degenkamp, City of Utrecht; Ángel Sánchez, Madrid City Council; Tanja Ballhorn Provstgaard, City of Copenhagen; Nick Fairholme, Transport for London

• Public transport systems of the Future

Chair: Gioacchino Gabbuti, ATAC Roma

GNSS for improved public transport positionning in Toulouse, Baptiste Godefroy, City of Toulouse

Jean-Loup Gauducheau,Veolia Transport

Pascale Grasset, Alstom Transport

Building a research agenda for public transport, Laurent Franckx, UITP

• Sustainable urban transport planning

Chair: Michael Aherne, Dublin Transportation Office

Sustainable urban transport planning in Toulouse, Christophe Doucet, Tisséo 

Tallinn experience in sustainable urban transport planning, the Pilot project, Aarne Rentik, City of Tallinn, Sylwia Klatka, ConVoco.

Dresden mobility strategy, Dr Lunau, City of Dresden

Reducing transport noise in urban area, the Silence project, Alexander Holleis, AVL-List

20.30 Gala Dinner

16 March 2007, Centre des Congres

9.00  Opening of the NICHES Final Event

Introduction to NICHES: Patrick Mercier-Handyside, European Commission, DG Research and the NICHES Consortium, Karen Vancluysen, Polis.

9.30  NICHES Parallel Sessions

• Seamless mobility services

Chair: Michael Laubenheimer, Rupprecht Consult

Urban Lift-sharing Services, Ali Clabburn, liftshare.com 

Public bikes, Encouraging cycling in Toulouse- Infrastructures & services, Arnaud Turlan, City of Toulouse

Call-a-Bus Services– BWCABUS – Rural public transport  using GPS based demand responsive transport, Prof. Owen Clark, Wales Transport Research Centre, University of Glamorgan

• Innovative approaches in city logistics

Chair: Dieter Wild, Planung Transport Verkehr

Space management for urban delivery, Julio Garcia Ramón, City of Barcelona

Inner city night delivery, Hugh Finlay, Dublin Institute of technology

Packstation: an innovative concept to solve the last mile issue, Klaus Esser, KE-Consult

• Non-polluting and energy-efficient vehicles

Chair: Lisa Sundell, City of Göteborg

Policy strategies to deploy private sector AFVs, Gustaf Landahl, City of Stockholm

Biogas in captive fleets, Sabine Germe, City of Lille

Joint procurement of AFVs, COMPRO project, Silvia Gaggi, Isis; role of the Emilia Romagna region, Silvia Zamboni.

• Innovative demand management strategies

Chair: Michael Glotz-Richter, City of Bremen

Transportation Management Associations, Valérie Bénard, Eurocities

The Stockholm Trial: Congestion charging and improved public transport aimed at reducing traffic jams and creating a better environment, Gunnar Söderholm, City of Stockholm

City-wide campaigns using marketing and branding, Patrick Allcorn, Transport for London

11.30 OSMOSE Awards Ceremony

11.45 Mayors' Roundtable on Innovation in Local Transport and the Attractiveness of European Cities and Regions

Chair : Marc Paoloni, European correspondent for the economic & financial newspaper La Tribune

participants: Jacques Barrot, Vice-president of the European Commission, Commissioner for Transport ; Ferran Julian, City of Barcelona; Maurizio Zamboni, City of Bologna; Paul Astier, Communauté Urbaine of Lille; Karsten Moering, City of Cologne; Youri Besbes, Polis.

13.00 Closing speeches

Jean-Luc Moudenc, President of Polis, President of Tisséo, Mayor of Toulouse
Jacques Barrot, Vice-president of the European Commission, Commissioner for Transport.

14.30 Technical Visits

17.30 End of Polis Annual Conference 2007