UITP Asia-Pacific Webinar: Electric Bus Tendering and Energy Transition

Free Webinar for UITP members

With the authorities’ drive towards greener and cleaner transport, electric buses (e-buses) have been progressively deployed worldwide. It is an expanding market of e-buses in Asia-Pacific region, many highly dense and modern cities are facing different degrees of financial and operational issues.

This webinar will look into:

• Experience to handle e-bus tendering and energy transition from the authority’s perspective
• Scoping studies and deployment of e-buses in the region
• Energy transition in the Bus sector and the impact on the outsourcing of bus operations
• Improvement of the management efficiency of New Energy Fleets
• Opportunities and challenges under the impact of COVID19
• Serve as some recommendations for those governments who are starting up bus lines using electric buses by a newly launch publication from UITP Bus Committee, Bus Tender Structure Report (available from MyLibrary)

Monday, 31^st August 2020 between 3:30pm and 5:00pm, Hong Kong time (UTC+8)

• Diego Fernández Belmonte, Director of Transport Management and Administration Services, Area Metropolitana de Barcelona, Spain
• Tony Dufays, Director International Business Development, Keolis, France
• Ki-Joon Kim, Principal Transport Specialist, Sector Advisory Cluster, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Development, Asia Development Bank, Philippines
• Kent Chang, Director of Overseas Distribution Sales Department, Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Group, China
• WANG Dajun, Deputy Director of Science, Technology & Information Division, Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission, China

Please click here to register.

We will reserve the priority to our members, non-members are on our waiting list. If we shall confirm your attendance, a few days before the webinar takes place, you will receive an email and an outlook invitation (in your calendar) with a link to register the webinar.

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UITP Asia-Pacific is looking out for the possibility to set up a bus platform within this region, if you are already our members and interested to contribute, as well as any question about this webinar.

Please contact [email protected]

*UITP reserves the right to make amendments to the programme or any related activity.