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Dear colleagues, You are warmly invited to join us on March 7TH for a public event where we will discuss the principles underpinning sustainable urban transitions and the extent to which rapidly growing cities in the Global South can benefit from it. This event is organised in the context of the GCRF/ESRC funded project T-SUM Transitions to Sustainable Urban Mobility<https://www.t-sum.org/>. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/t-sum-transitions-to-sustainable-urban-mobility-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-55964450177 When: Thursday March 7th between 5PM and 8PM Where: UCL, London The keynote speaker for this event will be: * Professor Nick Tyler, CBE, Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering The panel discussion will involve: * Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone * Professor Peter Jones, OBE, Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, UCL * Holger Dalkmann, Urban Theme Lead for the DFID-funded High Volume Transport (HVT) programme * Dr. Debbie Hopkins, Lecturer, University of Oxford The event will be followed by a cocktail reception including a speech from UCL's Vice-Provost Research Professor David Price. The event will be chaired by Professor Caren Levy from the Development Planning Unit, Bartlett, UCL. T-SUM is a transdisciplinary and internationally collaborative initiative that aims to identify the conditions under which pathways to sustainable and inclusive transport and land use development can be accelerated in growing cities in Sub-Saharan African cities (taking Freetown and Maputo as case study cities). The project's research and legacy activities will be coproduced with a diverse team from different backgrounds and sectors. Click here to register<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/t-sum-transitions-to-sustainable-urban-mobility-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-55964450177> Dr. Clemence Cavoli Research & Teaching fellow - Environmental and Transport policy-making and planning T-SUM<https://www.t-sum.org/> project manager, Co-Investigator and Work Package 3 leader Centre for Transport Studies | Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience t: +44(0)7526169742 University College London | Civil, Environmental, Geomatic Engineering Department, Gower Street WC1E 6BT Twitter<https://twitter.com/ClemenceCavoli?lang=en> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccavoli/> | Research Gate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clemence_Cavoli> | Iris<https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=CMCAV97> 'The mission of the Centre for Transport Studies at UCL is to deliver world class research that contributes to making transport systems safe, sustainable, efficient, secure, equitable, accessible to all and that promotes health and wellbeing.' ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the UTSG list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=UTSG&A=1