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      9th UITP Light Rail Conference
    The world’s unrivalled light rail conference

    Keep the world cool with LRT!
    Global solutions for a changing environment

    Istanbul, 11-13 June 2008

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    Light rail transit has proven to be a solution for many cities on all continents. LRT is silent, energy efficient, does not produce local emissions and is quite successful at attracting car drivers over to public transport. Read the full foreword.
     

    HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE

    - Mastering energy consumption in the Istanbul rail systems
    - Climate change: challenge and opportunities for LRT
    - LRT boom, its effect on modal shift and environment: the case of France and Grenoble

    See the full programme

    KEYNOTE SPEECH

    Anne WALRYCK, Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge of Sustainable Development


    UITP LIGHT RAIL AWARDS

    UITP is proud to launch an award competition to reward creativity in the light rail sector (Design, construction and/or operation). In front of a high-level international platform of delegates, the winners will be given their prize at the closing ceremony of the Conference. Certainly another highpoint of this Light Rail Event! Read more

     
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