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Mike Fuller
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Subject: Transport Visions
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 08:04:10 +0000
From: Glenn Lyons <[log in to unmask]>
I hope this new multi-disciplinary initiative will be of interest to
members of the discussion list. I would be very grateful if the message
can be forwarded to other appropriate groups/individuals for whom this
might be relevant.
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'Transport Visions - A Young Professionals' Perspective'
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Transport affects all our lives. Our dependence on the car is
culminating in unacceptable levels of congestion and pollution.
Transport remains high on the political agenda and an ongoing debate
seeks to identify a way forward to a more sustainable future. Vision
documents concerning transport come from senior professionals with a
conspicuous absence of views from young professionals. The EPSRC has
provided funds to the University of Southampton to establish and
co-ordinate a network of young professionals with an interest in
transport. The Network will be operating for 30 months and will address
8 themes across transport:
· The Information Society;
· Activity Patterns;
· Transportation Networks;
· Economy, Finance and Equity;
· Mode Change;
· Vehicles of the Future;
· Freight; and
· Land Use Planning.
For each theme a vision document will be produced. Network membership is
not limited to those working directly in the transport profession.
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.
Further details concerning this initiative can be found on the project
Web site at http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk under 'Research'.
Glenn Lyons
Transport Visions Network Director
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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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