FUTURE EVENTS

AER Summer School: Mobility: rural, urban, interregional traffic Location Location Rorschach and Arbon - Switzerland Date 22-27 August 2010 Website www.aer.eu Main theme This year's Summer School will focus on the topic mobility. Debates, workshops and study visits will not only enable participants to learn more about new transport concepts and to exchange best practice in the fields of urban, rural and interregional traffic but also to explore its limits and possible constraints. The project CityMobil will be represented by one of its partners.

7th IFAC Symposium Location Lecce - Italy Date 6-8 September 2010 Website http://iav2010.unile.it/ Main theme The symposium will consider generic methodologies and techniques applicable to intelligent autonomous vehicles. These include mobile robots on land, at sea, in air or in space, multi vehicle systems and networks of autonomous vehicles. It will address sensing, sensor integration and perception, architectures, planning, mission and motion control, navigation and cooperative navigation techniques, SLAM, teleoperation, human and vehicle interaction and practical applications. The focus of the Symposium will span from intelligent vehicle control to auxiliary systems support.

Towards advanced transport for the urban environment Location Heathrow Academy - Heathrow Airport - London - UK Date 21-23 September 2010 Website www.ptrc-training.co.uk Main theme The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Conference will return to London Heathrow in September 2010 and aims to delve even deeper into the planning and application of PRT systems around the world. As PRT systems are now being constructed on a more extensive scale, in towns and cities as well as in airports and on University campuses, PRT@LHR 2010 intends to explore the wider vision for PRT across the globe. The Conference aims to attract a variety of papers, with those which study the implementation and maintenance of existing systems alongside others that consider the future of PRT across the urban and rural environment, procurement, stakeholder engagement and alternative applications for PRT systems (for example within the construction industry and architectural design).

CityNetMobil showcase Location Brussels (Ixelles district) - Belguim Date 19-23 September 2010 Website citynetmobil.paris-rocquencourt.inria.fr Main theme Will our cities become more and more congested, polluted, and unsafe, or is there a way to reverse this trend? One new idea for urban transport is small automated low-polluting vehicles for driverless transport in cities. But can such novel systems solve mobility problems in any city? Can they be integrated into the urban structure and conventional transport networks? How would users react? CityNetMobil is a three-year EC FP7 support action with the specific objective of helping cities answer these questions. The next CityNetMobil showcase will be in Brussels

CIVITAS Forum Conference 2010 Location Malmö - Sweden Date 27-29 September 2010 Website www.civitas.eu Main theme The conference will be the 8th such annual event, following fora previously hosted in various quarters of Europe including Krakow, Bologna, Kaunas, Burgos and Rotterdam since the series started in 2003. The CIVITAS Forum Network currently includes 168 cities from 28 European countries, that have formally committed to clean and sustainable urban transport.

17th ITS World Congress Location Bexco, Busan - Korea Date 25-29 October 2010 Website www.itsworldcongress.kr Main theme The 17th ITS World Congress, will center on the theme, ' Ubiquitous Society with ITS.' The world's distinguished scholars and experts will attend the congress providing the opportunity to obtain the latest valuable information and experience a wide array of technologies.

2010 Annual Polis conference

Location

Dresden - Germany

Date

25 – 26 November 2010

Website

www.polis-online.org

Main theme

Learn about the innovative transport actions and policies pursued by cities and regions, gain insight to the future direction of urban and regional mobility and learn about current practice and future plans to:

• Reduce the environmental impact of road transport;
• More effectively manage the movement of people and goods;
• Deliver safer roads and a more secure transport network;
• Finance transport systems and improve accessibility.
• Gain understanding of the research needs for sustainable mobility in cities and regions.
• Network with local and regional transport decision-makers and officers from around Europe.

Who should attend the conference?

Transport professionals from public authorities; Decision makers at local, regional, national and EU level; Transport industry; Researchers