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      4th Design Day
    Sustainable design for sustainable cities!

    17-18 December 2008, Paris, France

    Organised by the UITP Design and Culture Platform



    PROGRAMME

     

    Wednesday 17 December 2009

       
       

    09:00-09:30

    Registration
       
       

    09:30-09:40

    Welcome speech
     
    Alain Flausch, Chairman of the UITP Design & Culture Platform, and CEO, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), Brussels, Belgium
       

    09:40-10:00

    Keynote speech
     
    ‘How to design sustainable environments?’
    by Rémi Feredj, Directeur du Département des espaces et du patrimoine, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), Paris, France
       

    10:00-11:15

    Session 1: Designing public transport interchanges as living places to remodel or improve the urban environment
     


    Chair: Gunnar Heipp, Head of Strategic Planning, Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), Munich, Germany

    Spin-Up (Security Perception in Intermodal Stations of Urban Public transport)
    Anne Leemans, General Secretary, Yellow Design Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
     
    Restyling Manzoni Station, Line A - Rome’s Underground
    Paolo Palamà, Architect, Metropolitana di Roma (MET.RO S.p.A), Rome, Italy
     
    Station = Town “TokyoStationCity
    Shirou Oouchida, Manager for Tokyo station restoration project, JREast, Tokyo, Japan & Nariaki Ozawa, Manager,JREast, Tokyo, Japan
     
    DT5 - Design between the traditional and the modern for the new metro in Hamburg
    Frank Schuster, CEO, TRICON Design AG, Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany

       

    11:15-11:45

    Coffee break
       
       

    11:45-12:45

    Session 2: Design as a tool for sustainable cities
     


    Chair: Alain Flausch, Chairman of the UITP Design & Culture Platform, and CEO, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB),
    Brussels, Belgium

    MVG design and planning standards for infrastructure
    Gunnar Heipp, Head of Strategic Planning, Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG), Munich, Germany
     
    Choosing the right mediums for printed publications and other communication materials
    Julia Lila, Graphic Designer, Helsinki City Transport (HKL), Helsinki, Finland
     
    Material & Form
    Rob Torsing, Director, Zwarts & Jansma Architects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

       

    12:45-13:45

    Lunch
       
       

    13:45-15:00

    Session 3: Newly designed rail vehicles for old cities
     


    Chair: Joao Rebelo, Director, Metro do Porto SA,
    Porto, Portugal

    Urban Design Challenges of LRT

    Stephan Besier, IBV, Zürich, Switzerland

     

    A tramway in Reims

    Maurice Michon, Directeur technique, AMO Mission Tramway, Systra, Reims, France

     

    A French touch in tramway design

    Yo Kaminagai, Responsable de l’Unité Design & Projets Culturels, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), Paris, France

     

    Metro do Porto, much more than a transport project

    Joao Rebelo, Director, Metro do Porto SA, Porto, Portugal


       

    15:00-15:30

    Coffee break
       
       

    15:30-16:30

    Session 4: New service bus lines enhancing the quality and image of the whole network
     

    Chair: Julia Lila, Graphic Designer, Helsinki City Transport (HKL), Helsinki, Finland

     

    Bus design improves transit level of service in China

    James Wang, Chongqing Jiaotong University & Chongqing Hengtong Bus Co. LTD, Chongqing, China

     

    The BusWay concept

    Pascal Leroy, Directeur Commercial, Semitan, Nantes, France

     

    Dynamic passenger information in Zürich buses

    Ansgar Bühler, Manager, Continental, Neuhausen, Switzerland

     


       

    16:30-16:45

    Discussion & conclusions
     


    Alain Flausch, Chairman of the UITP Design & Culture Platform, and CEO, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB),
    Brussels, Belgium


       

    20:00 

    Official Dinner kindly offered by RATP (Place tbc)
       
     

    Thursday 18 December 2009

       
       

    09:00-11:00

    Technical visits to the new T3 tramway line or the MF2000 metro line
       
       

    11:00 

    End of the programme