I am pleased to announce that details are now available and bookings being
taken for the 28th UK Transport Conference and Exhibition. This takes place
at the University of Nottingham on 25-26 March 2004.
Full details can be found on the TPS website -
http://www.tps.org.uk/events/2004/250304.htm or by visiting
www.nottingham-conference.org.uk.
The title of the conference is 'Planning for an urban future: charging or
what?'
The final programme is given below.
Regards,
Glenn
THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2004
09.30 Registration Coffee and Exhibition
Session 1 Planning for an Urban Future
10.30 Introduction
Professor Glenn Lyons, Director, Centre for Transport & Society, University
of the West of England, Chair, Organising Committee
10.45 Keynote address: Lessons from planning's past - a London road users
perspective
Derek Turner CBE, Principal, Derek Turner Consulting, London
Session 2 Urban Future - the Actors
11.15 Its easy for you - you're the planner; I'm the politician!
Councillor Helen Holland, Executive Member, External Affairs &
Partnerships, Bristol City Council
11.45 Testing options outside the system
Tony Hargreaves, Project Manager, Cambridge Futures
12.15 Discussion
13.00 Lunch and Exhibition
Session 3 Carrots and Sticks
14.15 LRT - an urban solution for Nottingham
Pat Armstrong, General Manager, NET, Nottingham City Council
14.45 From Birmingham Northern Relief Road to M6 Toll: what can we learn?
Alan Wenban-Smith, Independent consultant in Urban & Regional Policy,
Chairman of Labour Finance & Industry Transport Study Group
15.15 London's congestion charging revisited
Michele Dix, Director of Congestion Charging, Transport for London
15.45 Discussion
16.25 Tea and Exhibition
17.10 18.15 The Roy Cresswell Lecture
Planning in the Netherlands - pointers for the UK
Paul van de Lande, Senior Consultant, Department of Economic Development,
Transport and Infrastructure, Buck Consultants International, The Hague,
Netherlands
19.15 Reception
19.45 Conference Dinner Cripps Hall
Guest Speaker: Tony Depledge, Development Director, Arriva Passenger
Services, Leicester
Putting people first
FRIDAY 26 March 2004
Session 4 From Planning to Practice
09.00 Making sense of regional planning and urban consequences
Chris Martin, Director of Planning and Transport, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly
09.30 Planning into practice - the past, present and future for Cambridge
John Onslow, Assistant Director (Planning), Cambridgeshire County Council
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Coffee and Exhibition
11.15 Making public transport's future happen
Tom Magrath, Head of Projects, CENTRO, Birmingham
11.45 everyone's railway
Dr Steve Atkins, Assistant Director: Transport Planning, Policy & Research,
Strategic Rail Authority, London
12.15 Discussion
12.50 Lunch and Exhibition
Session 5 How to Shape the Future
14.00 Should transport planning be serving, supporting or shaping society?
Colin Eastman, Transport Advisor, Coventry City Council
14.30 Visioning and backcasting - what we want and how to get there
Professor David Bannister, Bartlett School of Planning, University College
London
15.00 Discussion
15.30 Conference Closure
Putting the clock back is not a sustainable transport policy
Malcolm Buchanan, Managing Director, Colin Buchanan and Partners, London
16.15 Tea and Departure
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** please note new tel and fax numbers **
Professor Glenn Lyons
Unit for Transport and Society
Faculty of the Built Environment
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
BRISTOL BS16 1QY
Tel 0117 32 83219
Mobile 07748 768404
Fax 0117 32 83899
Email [log in to unmask]
Web www.transport.uwe.ac.uk
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