Prof.
Joseph Sussman to speak
at
China Planning Network's First Urban
Transportation Congress
July
31, 2007
Dr.
Joseph Sussman, JR East Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Engineering Systems, is scheduled
to speak at the China Planning Network's
First Urban Transportation Congress,
to be held August 2-4 2008 in Beijing,
China. The event is co-sponsored by
MIT's Department of Urban Studies
and Planning, the China Association
for Science and Technology, and the
Ximbus News Agency.
Professor
Sussman's presentation is entitled
"The Role of Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) in Contemporary and
Future Transportation Systems: A Multidimensional
View." He will discuss ITS as
a change agent for the current transportation
system and how ITS will be shaped
by the transportation system as it
develops in the future. His presentation
will focus on both aspects-how transportation
is being changed by ITS and the potential
for ITS to further change the transportation
system in the future. He will introduce
the concept of "transportation
as a CLIOS System" (a "complex,
large-scale, interconnected, open,
socio-technical" system), then
explore the implications for ITS.
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