Dear Colleagues,

From January to March 2011, the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) at the University of Oxford will host a high-profile lecture series featuring several world-renowned academics working in the field of transport and mobility. The overarching theme of the lecture series will be ‘the future of transport research’, with each speaker offering a detailed and considered perspective upon a specific issue of interest to the discipline.

The Oxford Lectures promise to stimulate lively and interesting debate, and aim to identify some of the major issues facing the transport research community in the coming years. 

The full list of speakers is given below and all details can be found on the TSU website at http://www.tsu.ox.ac.uk. All lectures will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/).

All are welcome! 

Happy holidays and a happy new year. We very much look forward to welcoming you to Oxford.

The TSU team



The Future of Transport Research seminar series:
 
Professor David Banister, University of Oxford
19 Jan.: ‘Distance, Speed and Time: The Fundamentals of Transport Geography.’

Professor John Urry, University of Lancaster	
26 Jan.: ‘Does Mobility have a Future?’

*Professor Anthony Perl, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
2 Feb.: ‘Understanding the Paths to Post-Carbon Mobility: Research Needs for Anticipating Transport Revolutions.’

*Professor Kay Axhausen, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich
9 Feb.: ‘Translating daily life into simulation: MATSim and its possibilities.’

*Professor Ole B Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark	
16 Feb.: ‘More than A to B – transport and mobility research as cultural explorations.’

Professor Roger Vickerman, University of Kent
23 Feb.: ‘Myth and reality in the search for the wider benefits of transport.’

*Professor Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley
2 Mar.: ‘Mobility, Place-making, and Economic Competitiveness.’

*Professor Andrew Goetz, University of Denver	
9 Mar.: ‘Investment in Transport Infrastructure and Economic Development: Recent Debates in the United States.’

Series Convener: Dr M. Givoni

* These seminars are partially funded by the UKTRC.