Previous Conferences

Smart.Traffic 2008 - The fifth in the series of Smart Traffic conferences

Tranist Security & Infrastucture Design - Up-to-date knowledge and best practice on infrastructure design

Smart Urban Transport 2007 - 5th International Conference on Smart Urban Transport

Smart Traffic 2006 - 4th The fourth in the series of Smart Traffic conferences

Smart Urban Transport 2005 - 4th International Conference on Smart Urban Transport

Transit Oriented Development - Emerging Futures: Smart Transport and Quality Design in Transit Oriented Development

Smart Transport & Property - Workshop on Leveraging Transport Infrastructure for Property and Land Use Development

Smart Urban Transport 2003 - Featuring Sydney’s Liverpool to Parramatta Transitway

SmartMove - The Design and Management of Public Transport Systems for the Middle East

Smart.Traffic 2004 - Taking a Business Approach to Roads

Smart.Traffic 2002 - Operations & Partnerships

Smart Urban Transport 2001 - Integration and Performance

Smart.Traffic 2001 - Deploying Incident Management

Smart Urban Transport - Using Transitways and Busways

Road Pricing Agenda - Progressing Electronic Road Pricing

Previous Courses

Economic Evaluation of Transport Initiatives

Economic Appraisal of Urban Transport Projects

Economic Evaluation of Road Infrastructure Projects

Transport Oriented Development: An Introduction

Economic Evaaluation of Road Infrastructure Projects

P lanning & Evaluation of a Major Public Transport Facility - An Action Learning Course

Marketing Technical Consulting Services in Asia-Pacific - One Day Short Course

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Upcoming Courses

How Sustainable is Sustainable Transport?
12-13 August 2010
Brisbane, Australia

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Transport is a significant and growing contributor to energy use, greenhouse gas emissions that impact on climate change and exhaust emissions that harm human health. Closely linked to economic activity, mobility and transport emissions are on an upward path unless effective mitigating strategies are put in place.

Land transport is particularly problematic as a comprehensive approach to reducing emissions and increasing energy efficiency involves economic, technical and regulatory interventions which can impact on tens of thousands of individual firms and millions of transport users, with an equal number of responses which often appear counterintuitive.

While there is a desire to make transport more 'sustainable' it is common for interventions to be narrowly-focused on energy efficiency or greenhouse gas emission reductions and associated exhaust emissions without a full understanding of the nature of transport demand and how it responds to the quality, quantity and pricing of transport services and other policy, behavioural, taxation and technological instruments. Gaps in understanding may lead to design of inappropriate interventions which could be counterproductive to achieving real sustainability.

Although the proposed Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that was to take effect in 2011 is uncertain in its timing and form, it is likely that some form of legislation would be introduced in future that will impact on the price of carbon emissions. The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme already imposes signiÞcant reporting obligations on Þrms that produce substantial amounts of greenhouse gas, or produce or consume substantial amounts of energy.

References:

• download pdf: Kamakate, F and Schipper, L (2009), "Trends in Truck Freight Energy use and Carbon emissions in Selected OECD countries from 1973 to 2005." Paper published in Journal Energy Policy 37 (20 09) 3743 Ð3751. August.
• download pdf: Millard-Ball, A and Schipper, L (2010), "Are We Reaching A Plateau Or "Peak" Travel? Trends In Passenger Transport In Six Industrialized Countries." Paper submitted to 2010 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
• download pdf: Schipper, L (2009), "Moving Forward with Fuel Economy Standards." Article published in Access No.34, Spring.
• download pdf: Schipper, L, Deakin, E and McAndrews, C, Scholl, L, and Trapenberg Frick, K (2009), "Considering Climate Change in Latin American and Caribbean Urban Transportation: Concepts, Applications, and Cases: Appendices on Cobenefits.".
• download pdf: Schipper, L, Deakin, E and McAndrews, C (2010), Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Road Transport in Latin America. Chapter 4 of Transportation and Climate Solutions
• download pdf: Schipper, L and Fulton, F (2002), "Making Urban Transit Systems Sustainable Around the World: Many Birds with One Bus?" Paper No. 02-3573 published in Transportation Research Record 1791.
• download pdf: Schipper, L (undated), "Car Crazy: The Perils of Asia's Hyper- Motorization." Magazine article published in Global Asia, Volume 4, No. 4.
• download pdf: Schipper, L and Wei-Shiuen Ng (2004), "Rapid Motorization in China: Environmental and Social Challenges." This paper was commissioned for the ADB-JBIC-World Bank East Asia and Pacific Infrastructure Flagship Study. October.

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Current Publications

ITS in Asia: Market Trends and Prospects to 2015

Charged with marketing intelligent transport systems products and services in Asia? If you want information on Asian markets and global competitors Phil Sayeg and Professor Phil Charles’ updated ITS in Asia market reports may interest you.

Published in March 2004 the reports are:
• Part One: ITS in ASEAN – Market Trends and Prospects to 2015 contents
• Part Two: ITS in China – Market Trends and Prospects to 2015 contents

They are an update of the current reports which provide the only authoritative guide to Asia’s emerging ITS markets.

For details of pricing, and to order please contact Phil Sayeg at phil.sayeg @ transportroundtable.com.au

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