Picture report

Day 2 (Oct 2nd) * Day 1

 

 

TILLSAMMANS = TOGETHER!...

 

 

 

A wide range of topics

 

The whole second day was even more packed with interesting presentations

than day 1. Podcars and ecology, podcars and economy, podcars and energy,
architecture and town planning were among the topics.

 

Marcus Svensson Sweden, told about podcars from the Real Estate perspective	Eva Külper, Sweden spoke about podcars and town planning	Gus Ayer, Orange County, gave the US west coast local government outlook	Guala Luca, Italy/Abu Dahbi told about an initiative in the Middle east.

 

 

 

Most of the presentations were recorded and are shown here at this web site.
See the full menu at the Agenda.

 

 

One of the themes during the second day of the event, was

Networking at the municipal level.

 

A spectacular expression of this, was a video conference, conducted by
Christer Lindström, where podcar supporters at the US west coast
participated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swedish Municipalities at the forefront

 

The podcar/PRT interest in Swedish municipalities is bubbling. Some have taken the lead

Carl-Johan Engström Uppsala	Lars-Erik Dahlin Eskilstuna	Yvonne Blombäck & Hans Lindqvist Värmdö

 

 

 

	Joakim Fjälling IST, told about the KOMPASS initiative, a network of municipalities for podcars/PRT. Behind him Magnus Hunhammar who writes up november 7th, which is the date for a constituating meeting for the network.	The delegates at the Podcar City event were mainly from the authorities and business fields. One among the representatives from the "3rd force", the NGO:s and the civil society etc was Jacob Robert from Ithaca NY US

 

 

 

Conclusions

 

 

The Concluding plenary with a panel discussion was introduced by Arne Kaijser,

professor in the History of Technology, at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm

 

Professor Arne Kaijser

 

 

Arne gave a broad and highly interesting and relevant overview of earlier transportation

paradigms, the circumstances for their introduction and the transformations involved.
He ended with the remark that maybe this conference is a start for a new transportation paradigm.

 

 

Panel discussion

 

From the left: Rune Lindberg, Swedish Rail Administration, Ingmar Andréasson, Center for logistics KTH, Yvonne
Blombäck, Värmdö Municipality, Ola Jansson, Skanska, Ron Swenson, Solar Quest, Magnus Hunhammar IST and
Dr Lee, Vectus.

 

The participants were rather unanimous about the attitude that we must now move from sounds to things. All is at
hand for podcar pilot tracks!

 

 

Audience were listening and asking questions	Dr Lee, CEO Vectus, believed that interested municipalities will show up, wherever in the world...

 

 

IST CEO Magnus Hunhammar and chairman Russel Johnsson
closed the Podcar City event and received a warm applause.

 

 

Other picture reports from the event:

 

Conference Day 1 * Vectus show *Ice breaker * Castle dinner