TRANSPORTATION EVENTS

The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies will be hosting a reception at the 91st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board:

Monday, January 23
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

La Tomate
Dupont Circle
Corner of Connecticut Avenue and R Street N.W.
1701 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 91st Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, and Washington Hilton hotels. The information-packed program will attract more than 11,000 transportation professionals from around the world to Washington, D.C., January 22-26, 2012.

The TRB Annual Meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 4,000 presentations in nearly 650 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops will address the spotlight theme for 2012: Transportation: Putting Innovation and People to Work.

More details at: http://trb.org/Meeting/

Thoughtful people look to cities for evidence that progress is being made in the fight to avert climate change. The “sustainable cities” movement is thriving all across the world, and mayors compete for the title of “greenest city in America.”

In this lecture, drawing on his own research in the metro Phoenix area, Andrew Ross shows that the key solutions are more social than technical in nature. Marketing a green lifestyle to affluent residents will create showpiece sustainable enclaves, but will not alter the patterns of “eco-apartheid” that afflicts most large U.S. cities.

Railways and Speed
> Two centuries of speed on the railways, thirty years of high-speed trains
> 14 -16 December 2011
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> International Union of Railways
> 16, rue Jean-Rey
> 75015 Paris

The objective of the conference is to provide a unique forum within India for the interchange of ideas among transportation researchers, educators, managers, policymakers from India and all over the world, with the intention of covering all modes and sectors of transport (road, rail, air, and water; public and private; motorized and non-motorized) as well as all levels (urban, regional, inter-city, and rural transport) and for both passenger as well as freight movement, in India. Also address the transportation related issues of safety, efficiency, economic and social development, local and global environmental impact, energy, land-use, equity and access for the widest range of travelers with special needs.

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