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The Institut pour la ville en mouvement / Cities on the Move Institute organises an international colloquium and world taxi festival, September 20-22, 2007 in Lisbon http://www.ville-en-mouvement.com/taxi/uk/index.html This colloquium is aimed at professionals, urban transport experts, researchers, municipal officials and politicians. Through a resolutely innovative, forward-looking and cross-disciplinary approach, it seeks foster the exchange of experiences and to bring out new ideas for sustainable mobilities that are consistent with lifestyles in the modern city, where the taxi has a key role to play. The objective of this colloquium is to analyse the factors that inhibit the growth of taxi services, to evaluate the potential of the taxi, and to propose technical, social, organizational and economic solutions … Three topics for the international colloquium We would like contributions which take as their starting point the analysis of the success or difficulties of projects and innovations, and focus on three types of innovation : • New demand and new services in urban mobility • Improvements in performance and productivity through new technologies • Integrating the taxi into the city Calendar Closing date for receipt of proposals: Thursday, October 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance and establishment of the program: Monday, January 8, 2007 Closing date for receipt of final contributions: Monday, May 14, 2007 Colloquium dates: Thursday, September 20 - Friday September 21, 2006 The detailed call for papers and submission forms available from the website: http://www.ville-en-mouvement.com/taxi/uk/index.html Please forward this email to others you think might find it interesting and/or useful.