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      2nd Sustainable Development Conference
    Making tomorrow today
    22-24 October 2008, Milan, Italy

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    CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

     

    Wednesday 22 October 2008

       
       

    15:30 

    Technical visit
     

    ATM’s Operation Room

    If you wish to participate in the Technical visit please register using the form available here


       

    19:00 

    Local Host Welcome cocktail
     

    Palazzo Marino, kindly hosted by the Municipality of Milan

     

    Sala Alessi - Piazza della Scala, 2. Milano.
    Accessible by metro, station Duomo (redline)
    or Montenapoleone (yellow line).

     

    Thursday 23 October 2008

       
       

    09:00-10:00

    Opening Ceremony
     

    Welcome from the City of Milan

    Letizia Moratti, Mayor of Milan, Italy

     

    Welcome From Local Host

    Elio Catania, President of ATM, Milan, Italy

     

    Welcome from UITP

    Roberto Cavalieri, UITP President, Rome, Italy

     

    Keynote Speaker

    Robert Rubinstein, Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Bridge, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Invited)


       

    10:00-11:10

    Strategic Thinking for sustainable economic development
     

    Sustainable Development is part of a wider commitment to change at city level and all those that contriute to a city’s performance

    Chair : Heather Allen
    Senior Sustainable Development Manager, UITP, Brussels, Belgium

    Making Munich a leading city
    Lord Mayor Hep Monatzeder, Munich, Germany
     
    The Covenant of Mayors and Milan’s commitment to change
    Edoardo Croci, Commissioner for Mobility, Transport and Environment, Milan, Italy
     
    A leading company recognizes its responsibility to its shareholders and the communities it serves
    Glenn Frommer, Sustainable Development Manager, MTR, Hong Kong

    Public Transport in Italy facing the challenge of Sustainable Development
    Marrcello Panettoni, President of Asstra, Rome, Italy

       

    11:10-11:30

    Coffee break and Poster zone visit
       
       

    11:30-12:30

    General Managers Round Table
     

    Moderator: John Inglish
    CEO, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

     

    Support for a more sustainable approach has to come from the highest level – listening to these ‘agents of change’ will inspire you to do more!

    An international round table panel debate where General Managers from
    MilanLos Angeles, Curitiba, Lisbon, Karlsruhe and Barcelona will share their vision and how they are getting there.


       

    12:45-13:00

    Charter signing Ceremony
     

    New pledge and full signatories will show their commitment to sustainable development by signing UITP’s sustainable development charter.


       

    13:00-14:00

    LUNCH
       
       

    14:00-15:00

    How to finance greener and cleaner?
     
    Little can be achieved without the proper funding and financing mechanisms being in place. New and innovative ways of financing the extra capital costs of greener and cleaner technologies and how to justify these costs are at the heart of this session
     
    Chair : Eric Terrier
    Responsable Qualité, TRANSDEV SA, Lyon, France
     
    Looking at the economic impact of making Europe’s public transport cleaner and greener
    Guido del Mese, General Director and Chairman of the UITP EU Committee, ASSTRA, Rome, Italy
      
    Justifying higher investments in public transport for sustainability
    Arnulf Schuchmann, Managing Director, S2R Consulting
     
    Sustainable Public Transport Operations – looking closely at value for money
    Markus Wiedemann, Unternehmensbereichsleiter Kraftfahrzeugwerkstätten SSB Stuttgart

       

    14:00-15:00

    Parallel session: Breathe Easy
     
    Please keep in mind that no interpretation is provided for the parallel sessions

    Chair: Bernard D'Amour
    Director of Public Affairs, Canadian Urban Transit Association(CUTA), Toronto, Canada
     
    The Plan of the municipality of Milan to fight Climate Change

    Bruno Villavecchia, Director Energy and Environment Sector of AMA, Milan, Italy

     
    Moving people within an extraordinary environment
    Gabriella Bianconi, Communication and Quality Manager, Azienda Perugina della Mobilità(APM), Italy
      
    Substitute trolleybuses by diesel or gas buses? Debate and recent decisions in Switzerland
    Mario Keller, INFRAS, Bern, Switzerland
     

       

    15:00-15:30

    Coffee break and Poster zone visit
       
       

    15:30-17:30

    Can communication change behaviours?
     

    Communicating sustainability internally and externally is a key issue.

    Best practices on this hot topic will help focus the discussion on how to get people to make public transport their preferred mobility mode .

     

    Chair: Eveline Branders

    Joint Chair of the UITP Climate Change Communications Working Group and Sustainable Development Manager, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles(STIB), Brussels, Belgium

    An insight into communicating sustainability

    Mike Longhurst, Senior Vice President, Business Development EMEA, McCann & Erickson, London, United Kingdom 

     

    Sustainability in Carris – Act Today… Save Tomorrow
    Inês Matos, Marketing Technician, Carris, Lisbon, Portugal
     

    STIB comes to the aid of the poles

    Françoise Ledune, Public Relations Manager, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles(STIB), Brussels, Belgium

     

     

     

     

    Focusing on behaviours: from published opinion to two-way relationship with stakeholders/publics

    Toni Muzi Falconi, General Manager Mo.Ve Association, Brussels, Belgium


       

    15:30-17:00

    Parallel session: Cities World Café
     

    Please keep in mind that no interpretation is provided for the parallel sessions

    Learning experiences from cities

     

    Chair: Elaine Seagriff

    Head of Policy and Strategy, Transport for London, United Kingdom


    The “DUO auto+bus” program: a sustainable approach to urban flexible mobility

    Marco Viviani, Development and public relations director, Communauto, Montreal, Canada

     

    SAMOT (Service And Marketing Oriented Transport research)

    Mikael Johnson, Professor, Karlstad University, Sweden

     

    The experience of the Province of Bologna in integrating urban and mobility sustainable planning into local climate action plans.

    Tommaso Bonino, Technical director, SRM, Bologna, Italy

     

    Novel visualisations of sustainability performance metrics – using Sydney as an example

    Ken Doust, Doctoral Candidate and Analyst in RailCorp, University of New South Wales, Australia

     

     


       

    18:30-20:00

    Charter Signatories networking cocktail in the Poster Zone
     


     (kindly hosted by TRANSDEV).


       

    20:00 

    GALA DINNER
     

    Venue: “Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della

    Tecnologia” Via S. Vittore 21 – 20123 Milano

    Meeting Point at 19:45 in the lobby of The Centro Congressi Fondazione Cariplo.

     

    Friday 24 October 2008

       
       

    09:30-10:30

    Climate Change Round Table
     

    The present global focus on climate change presents public transport with a huge opportunity but is the sector well positioned to benefit, and do we know enough about it? Experts bring examples and challenges that still need to be resolved.  

    Chair : Michel Bourbonnière
    Corporate Manager - Sustainability, Société des Transports de Montréal, Canada

    How to assess the CO2 emissions avoided by PT?
    Dominique Delis, Sustainable Development director, Veolia Transport, Paris, France
     
    An integrated transport strategy for a better environmental protection and local well being
    Anne Vicenzotti, Project Officer, Nantes Métropole, Nantes, France
     
    Measures to Alleviate Global Warming
    Seiji Shima, Deputy General Manager, East Japan Railway Company, Tokyo, Japan
     

    Internalisation of external costs: An opportunity for urban transport 

    Cyril Condé, Manager of Innovation and Sustainable Development, RATP, Paris, France


       

    10:30-11:00

    Coffee break and Poster zone visit
     

    kindly sponsored by Veolia


       

    11:00-12:30

    More people now live in cities than ever before and the role of local authorities is increasingly important.
     

    This session supported by the UITP Organising Authorities Committee covers the different roles and partnerships required for sustainable communities.  

    Chair : Claudio Masi
    CEO and Chair of UITP Organising Authority Committee, Agenzia Mobilita E Ambiente, Milan, Italy
     
    Promoting sustainability in the local context: The experience of the PT authority of Madrid
    Carlos Cristobal-Pinto, Head of studies and planning department, Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid, Spain  
     
    Clean and sustainable mobility in the Province of Gelderland
    Coen Volp, Province Gelderland, Arnhem, The Netherlands  
     
    Milan Strategy and measures for Sustainable Mobility and its Eco pass
    Claudio Masi, President and CEO, Agenzia Mobilita’ e Ambiente s.r.l., Milan, Italy
     
    Brussels: a new mobility plan
    Thierry Duquenne, Chief Engineer, Brussels Mobility Plan, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 
     
    The role of regional authorities in developing a sustainable policy: the case of Montreal
    Robert Olivier, Vice-President Planning and Innovation, Agence Métropolitaine de Transport, Montreal, Canada

       

    11:00-12:30

    Parallel session: Sharing Lessons from other Sectors
     
    Please keep in mind that no interpretation is provided for the parallel sessions
     
    Chair: Oliver Glaser
    Projektleiter, Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Masdar, a zero carbon on zero waste community
    Fabio Casiroli, Systematica, Milan, Italy 
     

    Sustainable Mobility for Italian cities

    Stefano Riazzola, Director Mobility Transport, Environment Sector, Milan, Italy

     

    Journey Planning for Cycling: making non motorized, transport (NMT) a more useful ally for public transport

    Petteri Sipilä, Planner, Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Council (YTV), Finland


       

    12:30-14:00

    LUNCH
       
       

    14:00-15:30

    People, profit and planet! As the world's population now tips 6 billion, the social dimension of sustainability cannot be neglected.
     

    This session will cover health, social inclusion and the role of transport organisations within the social context.

     
    Chair: Manuel Barriga
    Director Desarrollo Personal Y Politica Social, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Spain

    Making the links between transport, Health and Environment
    Vadim Donchenko, Director General, State Scientific and Research Institute of Road Transport, Ministry of Transport, Moscow, Russia
      

    How to build sustainable partnerships with employees and citizens

    Peter Müller-Marschhausen, Geschäftsbereichsleiter Personal und Organisation, Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Germany

     

    Sustainable transport and decent jobs – a trade union perspective

    Ed Watt, secretary-treasurer of the US Transport Workers Union (TWU), New York, United States of America


       

    15:30-16:30

    Closing Ceremony
     

    Report from the Youth Parliament

    Comments from Wilhelm Georg Hanss, General Manager, Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Germany

     

    European Regional Final of the Youth Project Award

    Roberto Cavalieri and Patrick Vautier awarding the winners

    Discover who will be the “Youth project BEST PRACTICES” and “Youth project YOUNG MANAGERS” for the European region

     

    Closing speech:

    Roberto Cavalieri, UITP President, Rome, Italy


       

    16:30 

    Farewell drink
     

    for all participants and accompanying persons