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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 |
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19:00 |
Local Host Welcome cocktail | |
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Palazzo Marino, kindly hosted by the | ||
Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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09:00-10:00 |
Opening Ceremony | |
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Welcome from the City of Letizia Moratti, Mayor of Welcome From Local Host Elio Catania, President of ATM, Welcome from UITP Hans Rat, UITP Secretary General, Keynote Speaker José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica and former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (invited) | ||
10:00-11:10 |
Strategic Thinking for sustainable economic development | |
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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, Milan, Italy
A leading company recognizes its responsibility to its shareholders and the communities it serves
Glenn Frommer, Sustainable Development Manager, MTR, Hong Kong
Title to be confirmed Marrcello Panettoni, President of Asstra, Rome, Italy | ||
11:10-11:30 |
Coffee break and Poster zone visit | |
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11:30-12:30 |
General Managers Round Table | |
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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! | ||
12:30-12:45 |
Charter signing Ceremony | |
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New pledge and full signatories will show their commitment to sustainable development by signing UITP’s sustainable development charter. | ||
12:45-14:00 |
LUNCH | |
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14:00-15:00 |
How to finance greener and cleaner? | |
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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,
Could public transport be a good partner for some of the new innovative carbon based funds? Paul Clements-Hunt, UNEP Finance Initiative (Invited )
Guido del Mese, General Director and Chairman of the UITP EU Committee, ASSTRA,
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: Breath Easy | |
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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),
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
Moving people within an extraordinary environment
Gabriella Bianconi, Communication and Quality Manager, Azienda Perugina della Mobilità(APM),
Substitute trolleybuses by diesel or gas buses? Debate and recent decisions in
Mario Keller, INFRAS,
Reduction of GHG emissions and improving air quality by introducing of CNG and non motorized vehicles in
Hasibul Hasan Hasib, Enforcement Officer, Air quality management project, Department of Environment, | ||
15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break and Poster zone visit | |
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15:30-17:00 |
Can communication change behaviours? | |
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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), 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,
Excellence through effective communication systems K.N. Ingalagi, Chief Manager, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation,
STIB comes to the aid of the poles Jean-Pierre Alvin, Communication Director, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles(STIB), Brussels, Belgium | ||
15:30-17:00 |
Parallel session: Cities World Café | |
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Please keep in mind that no interpretation is provided for the parallel sessions
Chair: Elaine Seagriff Strategy and Policy Manager, Transport for Marco Viviani, Development and public relations director, Communauto, SAMOT (Service And Marketing Oriented Transport research) Mikael Johnson, Professor, Karlstad University, Sweden The experience of the Tommaso Bonino, Technical director, SRM, Novel visualisations of sustainability performance metrics – using Ken Doust, Doctoral Candidate and Analyst in RailCorp, | ||
18:30-20:00 |
Charter Signatories networking cocktail in the Poster Zone | |
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20:00 |
GALA DINNER | |
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Friday 24 October 2008 |
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09:00-10:30 |
Climate Change Round Table | |
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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
Gestionnaire corporatif - Développement durable, 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,
Small Scale rapeseed oil production for buses in local PT Ylva Cohn, Responsible of environmental issues, Upplands Localtrafik, Sweden | ||
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break and Poster zone visit | |
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11:00-12:30 |
More people now live in cities than ever before and the role of local authorities is increasingly important. | |
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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
Le rôle d’une agence métropolitaine dans l’élaboration et le leadership d’une politique de développement durable. Le cas de Montréal
Robert Olivier, Vice-President Planning and Innovation, Agence Métropolitaine de Transport, Montreal, Canada | ||
11:00-12:30 |
Parallel session: Sharing Lessons from other Sectors | |
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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 Logistics and Public Transport – Natural allies in sustainable transport Héloïse Boyer, Chargée de Développement Durable, TNT Express, Lyon, France | ||
12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH | |
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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. | |
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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 Francesca Racioppi, Acting Head of Unit, World Health Organisiation, Transport (WHO), Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (The PEP), Rome, Italy
Transport, Social exclusion and well-being: some evidence
John Stanley, Bus association Victoria, Australia
How to build sustainable partnerships with employees and citizens
Peter Müller-Marschhausen, Geschäftsbereichsleiter Personal und Organisation, Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Germany | ||
15:30-16:30 |
Closing Ceremony | |
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Closing speech Window on the future - Youth Parliament Report
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16:30 |
Farewell drink | |
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Chairman: Eric Terrier, Transdev, France
Members: Manuel Barriga, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, Spain
Eveline Branders, Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, Belgium
Marie-Xavière Wauquiez, Keolis, France
Glenn Frommer, Mass Transit Railway Corporation Ltd. Hong Kong
Gunnar Heipp, Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft Germany
Elena Montafia, Azienda Trasporti Milanesi, Italy
Elaine Seagriff, Transport for London, United Kingdom |