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TRANSPORT VISION NETWORK - first call for members
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Please draw this message to the attention of the young professionals (under
the age of 35) in your organisation - there is now a Forum for them to have
their say in shaping the future of transport.
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Publication of the UK Transport White Paper crystallised, from the ongoing
transport debate, a possible vision of a future for transport. The mindset
of 'predict and provide' has been broken. However it would be unwise to
move into a new era in which new mindsets are established and the virtues
of fundamental transport policy are no longer questioned. It is vital that
we continue to challenge current thinking and that alternative visions of
possible transport futures are examined.
Contributions to the transport debate and to transport vision documents
come predominantly from the ranks of senior professionals. Conspicuous by
its absence is the presence of views from young professionals. Yet the
young professionals of today will be the decision makers responsible for
the shaping of transport at the beginning of the next millenium.
The Transportation Research Group at the University of Southampton has been
awarded funds by the EPSRC to establish and co-ordinate a Transport Visions
Network for Young Professionals (under 35 years of age). The Transport
Visions Network formally begins on 1st February 2000 and will run for a
period of 30 months. Network members will address a series of transport
themes and a number of thematic vision documents will be produced.
Whether you are a transport planner, geographer, engineer, economist,
market researcher, sociologist, psychologist . . . . . . . . . if you are
able to contribute imaginative, forward thinking views concerning factors
that will, should or could shape the future of transport then you are the
type of person the Transport Visions Network needs.
Anyone who is interested is encouraged to join the Network now. Joining
instructions and further information can be found at the TRG Web site
(http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk) under 'research'.
For those with access to the journal 'Traffic Engineering and Control' a
paper titled 'Transport Visions: A Young Professionals' Perspective' is
being published in the December issue and provides a much more detailed
account of this new initiative.
Glenn Lyons
Director of the Transport Visions Network
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Dr Glenn Lyons
Transportation Research Group
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southampton
Highfield
SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ
Tel 023 8059 4657
Fax 023 8059 3152
Email [log in to unmask]
WWW http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk
Dept http://www.soton.ac.uk/~civilenv/
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