United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
 
INTERNATIONAL FORUM
Geneva, 23-27 January 2006
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
Session 4 : 26 January 2006
 
 
Mobility creates a third of the existing greenhouse effect gases. Its planning is becoming an important leverage to act upon the decrease of CO2 emissions, in accordance with the global objectives of the Kyoto agreements.
Mobility is an essential engine of sustainable development, characterised notably by difficulties specific to major cities. Its dynamic is essential to economic development, its quality has a major impact upon the environment, and its development plays an increasingly social role, especially in the public health sector and in social organisation and equity. The sustainable management of mobility must answer to a quality insurance process that needs to integrate, at all levels, planning, evaluation and correction.
The session on sustainable mobility aims at promoting and favouring the future development of this process, both within collectivities and at the individual level.
 
 
 
 
Chairperson : Daniel Goeudevert, vice President, FEDRE
 
08h30 - 09h00 Welcome to participants
  Projection of " PLANETE CLIMAT " images
   
09h00 - 09h30 SESSION OPENING AND SUBJECT FRAMING
   
 
  • Reminder of the conclusions of Forum 2004 "Cleaner public and private transportation: which energies, technologies and measures" and summing up of the considerations of the report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

    Daniel Goeudevert, vice President, FEDRE
    Odd Gullberg, Chief Executive Officer, WBCSD
   
09h30 - 10h20 WHY AND HOW DO PEOPLE COMMUTE? WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE MOVEMENTS?
  ARE THEY JUSTIFIED AND AT REAL COST?
   
  Christophe Jemelin, Professor, Polytechnic School of Lausanne
  François Fleuri, Directeur associé, Biocarb
   
10h30 - 11h10 HOW TO MANAGE THE DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR MOBILITY THROUGH:
   
  1) A more rational management of people and goods transportation: incentives and prohibitions, actions of authorities.
 
  • Public transport : Key Actors of Sustainable Mobility
    Heather Allen, Sustainable Development Manager, International Association of Public Transport (UITP)
    Eveline Branders, Environment and sustainable development Coordinator, Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB)

  • The role of ITS transport system
    Arnold Van Zyl, CEO, ERTICO
11h10 - 12h30

 
  • Company mobility plans

    • Why company mobility plans
    • The case of AIG

      Giorgio Giovannini, Director, Mobilidée SA [intervention]


  • Mega events: laboratories for sustainable development of Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London

    Philippe Bovy, Honorary Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), IOC Transport Advisor
 
  • Mobility teachers training

    Alberto Viteri, Director, Empreza Metroplitana de Servicios y Administracion del Transport Alcaldia Metropolitana (EMSAT Quito)
13h45 - 14h45 2) Implementation of new infrastructures
 
  • Projects in China

    Malcolm Buchanan, Director, Colin Buchanan and Partners [intervention]
  • European research programmes: BESTUFS

    Dieter Wild, Director, Research Transport Logistics, PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG
   
14h45 - 15h45

ROUND TABLE: VISION OF MAJOR CITIES ON THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN MOBILITY

o Barcelona - Jose Ramon Garcia - o Brussels - Pierre Schmitz - o Geneva - Alexandre Prina, Mobility Service, City of Geneva - o Lisboa - Robert Stüssi, President of APVE, Portuguese Electric Vehicle Association - o London - Dr. Ian Johnson, Projects Director, Strategy and business development Transport for London - o Quito - Alberto Viteri, Director, Emsat - o Paris - Claude Dargent, President of the Transport commission - o Stockholm - Monica Hildingson - o Zürich - Ruedi Ott, Head of Transport Planning, Department of Civil Engineering, City of Zürich
   
   
16h00 - 17h45

NEW FUELS AND NEW VEHICLES

  • Development of biofuels in Europe : current situation and perspectives
    Edgar Gnansounou, Professor, EPFL

    • Bioethanol project in Switzerland
      Pierre Schaller, President, Alcosuisse

    • Hybrid cars
      Philipp Dietrich, Paul Scherrer Institute

    • Gas vehicles
      Jacky Joas, Directeur des ventes, Greenfield AG [intervention]

    • Bio fuels
      Véronique Hervouet, RM strategy and research division, Total [intervention]

  • Vehicles for the future
    • A long battle for a good project. The new "Serpentine".
      José Angel Gonzalez, Head of the Office of Mobility, Lausanne


    • The "Pac-car II" prototype
      Jean-Jacques Santin, Head of PAC Car team, ETHZ

    • The car of the future
      Vincent Bourquin, Numexia
   
17h45 - 18h00

DEBATES AND CONCLUSION

Daniel Goeudevert, vice President, FEDRE