AGENDA
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The final Program

 

September 30

16:00-18.00

"Ice-breaking" Reception at the new Concert and Conference Hall in Uppsala


Oktober 1st

09:00-10:00

Registration and Welcome Coffee
Press meeting

10:00-10:45

Official opening
Moderators: Eva Külper, Johan Böhlin and Russel Johnson IST Video >>>
Gunnar Hedberg, Uppsala Municipality Video >>>

Magnus Hunhammar; Opening remarks by the Conference Primus Motor Video >>>

10:45-11:45

Keynote session on: Towards sustainable cities
Erik Pelling, On how to build a sustainable Uppsala Video >>>

Kjell Dahlström: Needs for a new general transport system Video >>>

Gus Ayer, Orange County, US: How to best implement podcars in the Orange County? Video >>>

11.45-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Keynote session on: Urban demonstrations, pilots and strategies for market growth
Jan van Dijke: CityMobil and Podcars/PRT. Video >>>

Malcolm Buchanan, UK: The case for Podcars and the case for DaventryVideo>>>
Lawrence Fabian: We have not been succesful in implementing green transport Video >>>

Magnus Hunhammar: Implementation plan and where to start Video >>>

14:30-15.00

Refreshments

15:00-15:25

Keynote session on: Vendor presentations

Dr Jeon-Young Lee, CEO Vectus Korea Video >>>
Vectus objectives with the test track and future plans, experiences from the certification
process and next steps.

15.25-17.00

 

 

Ollie Mikosza, MIST-ER, Poland Video >>>

Mike Lester, SkyWeb Express Video >>>
Robbert Lohmann, CyberCab, the Netherlands Video >>>
Christopher Perkins, Unimodal, USA Video >>>
Per Ribbing, SwedeTrack, Sweden No Video yet >>>
Palle Jensen, RUF, Denmark Video >>>

Closing remarks from the Chair

19:00

Dinner at the Uppsala Castle


October 2nd

 

08.30

Registration

A1.Test track visit

 

B1.The Podcar City

 

C1 .Architectural aspects

09:00

Visit at the Vectus Test track

09:00

Carl-Johan Engström: Uppsala – Green city with podcars: Current plans for Boländerna Video >>>

 

09:00

Eva Külper: PRT - a revolution to townplanning. Video >>>

 

 

 

09:20

Yvonne Blombäck & Hans Lindqvist: Podcars for an expanding region: Värmdö-Nacka-Södermalm. Video>>>

 

09:20

Guala Luca Video >>>

Transportation strategy for the
carbonfree citadel of Masdar, Abu Dhabi

 

 

 

09:40

Mike Rotkin: PRT for Santa Cruz Surf City in California.No Video >>>

 

10:00

Questions/discussions

 

 

 

10:00

Questions/discussions

 

 

 

10:15

Refreshments

A2.Renewable energy for podcar systems

 

B2. Test track visit

 

C2.Economy and financing

10:45

Hans Bernhoff, prof. The Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University Production and Storage Systems for Renewable Electricity Video >>>

 

10:45

Visit at the Vectus Test track

 

10:45

Göran Tegnér: Severe shortages in current public transport – and why podcars may make the difference. Video >>>

11:15

Ron Swenson: Can podcars be driven by solar energy? Video >>>

 

 

 

 

11:15

Marcus Svensson: Podcars from a Real Estate Developer perspective Video >>>

11:45

Questions / discussions

 

 

 

 

11:45

Questions / discussions

12:00

Lunch

A3.Lessons learnt and further developments

 

B3.Networking for success

 

C3. Test track visit

13:15

Robbert Lohmann: Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam – experience from an early adopter. Video >>>

 

13:15

Lars-Erik Dahlin: The need for sustainable visions: large podcar net connecting Eskilstuna – Västerås.Video >>>

 

13:15

Visit at the Vectus Test track

13:45

Ingmar Andréasson: Extending podcar capabilities. Video >>>

 

13:35

Christer Lindström: GTS Ecosystem

On a Sustainable Transportation Fund Video >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

13:50

KOMPASS, Network of municipalities, interested in podcar initiiativesVideo >>>

 

 

 

14:15

Questions/discussions Video >>>

14:30

Refreshments

15.00-16.30

Plenary session Discussion: PODCAR CITY - Opportunities and obstacles
Introduction by Arne Kaijser: Historical experiences from implementation of new infrastructures Video>>>(shows no slides).

Yvonne Blombäck, Ingmar Andréasson,Royal Inst.of Technology, Ola Jansson, Skanska, Ron Swensson,Solar Quest, Santa Cruz), Jeon-Young Lee, CEO Vectus, Rune Lindberg, Swedish Rail, Magnus Hunhammar IST, Christer Lindström IST
Video
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