31st NATIONAL TRANSPORT CONFERENCE

AND EXHIBITION 1 6 & 1 7 O c t o b e r 2 0 0 7

H u g h e s P a r r y H a l l , L o n d o n W C 1

Transport Challenges facing the UK:

Major Scheme Funding and the Environment

Tuesday 16 October 2007

09.00 Registration Coffee and Exhibition

09:45 Introduction Dave Whyte

Chairman Organising Committee, North West Regional Assembly.

09:55 Keynote Address Sustainable Transport for London Jenny Jones AM Green Party Member, London Assembly, The Mayor's Green Transport Advisor.

Session 1 Planning for City Regions

Chairman Peter Headicar RTPI: Reader in Transport,

Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University

10:25 Eddington and its Implications for Funding Adam Marshall Senior Researcher, Centre for Cities, London.

10:55 Coffee and Exhibition

11:20 The Interactions between Land-Use and Transport Planning Dr David Simmonds

Director, David Simmonds Consultancy, Cambridge.

11:50 City Regions – the "Vision" for Local Authorities Dr Janice Morphet

Consultant, Visiting Professor, University College London.

12.20 Discussion

13.00 Lunch and Exhibition

Session 2 Managing Demand Chairman Trevor Whelan

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK)

14.00 Regional Funding Allocations Dave Colbert Regional Transport Advisor, North West Regional Assembly, Wigan.

14.30 Funding through TIF - Prize or Mortgage Dr Alan Brett Director, Atkins Planning, Manchester.

15.00 Tea and Exhibition

15.25 An Offer you can't refuse - Influencing Travel Demand through Social Networking Ben Plowden Programme Director, Travel Demand Management, Transport for London.

15.55 Smarter Choices - its Future Application Martin Higgitt Principal Transport Planner, Steer Davies Gleave, Leeds.

16.25 Discussion 17.15 Close

Wednesday 17 October 2007

Session 3 The Environment

Chairman Dr CGB (Kit) Mitchell, Council Member IHT

and formerly Transport Research Laboratory

09:30 Alternative Fuels and the Carbon Footprint of Rail Michael Woods Head of Operations Research,

Rail Safety & Standards Board, London.

10:00 In a jam: The Truth about UK Carbon Emissions from Transport Phil Sivell Team Leader, Climate Change,

Centre for Sustainability at TRL, Wokingham.

10:30 Coffee and Exhibition

10.55 Integrating Sustainability into Transport

Professor John Whitelegg Professor of Sustainable Development, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York.

11:25 Discussion

12:05 Roy Cresswell Lecture

Reflections on the Greater Manchester TIF bidding process Roy Newton Head, The Greater Manchester Joint Transport Team.

12:45 Lunch and Exhibition

Session 4 Road-User Charging

Chairman Bill Wyley Transport Planning Society

14:00 The Challenge of Delivering Road User Charging in the UK

Dr David Quarmby CBE

Director, Colin Buchanan; CILT Road Capacity & Charging Forum.

14:30 Charging: the Oregon Alternative Edmund King Executive Director, Royal Automobile Club

Foundation for Motoring, London.

15.00 Opportunities for Public Transport Operators

Geoff Inskip Chief Executive, Centro-WMPTA, Birmingham.

15:30 Discussion

16.00 Conference Closure Dave Whyte

16.10 Departure

Conference Fee including the book of papers, coffee, lunch

and tea during the Conference is £444.68 + £53.32 VAT for

CILT, RTPI, IHT, TPS, ATCOmembers £480.43 + £59.57 VAT for others.

One-Day Fee for members is £276.17 + £23.83 VAT, for

others £293.19 + £26.81 VAT.

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