With the goal of highlighting the principal worldwide mobility conditions and challenges for a broad international audience of policymakers, government officials, industry leaders, researchers and others, MIT is planning a day-long Sustainable Mobility Symposium in Spring 2002. The symposium will highlight the report Mobility 2001, which was commissioned last spring by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as a first step toward developing a vision of more sustainable mobility in the future. Prepared by a group of researchers from MIT and Charles River Associates, Mobility 2001 is the most comprehensive and large-scale global initiative in sustainable transport. With eleven corporate sponsors and a budget of over $10 million behind it, the WBCSD Project represents a significant undertaking by private sector. The Symposium will explicitly target each of the seven grand challenges identified in the Mobility 2001 report, offering a public platform for discussion of its findings. The event will help set the stage for the next phase of the WBCSD project, which will focus on sustainable mobility in the year 2030 and the challenge of ensuring sufficient mobility to support economic growth while balancing environmental, energy, and resource requirements.

Features:

• Highlights the report Mobility 2001, the most important global transportation initiative in recent years
• Comprehensive presentation of the principal worldwide mobility conditions and challenges by highly distinguished researchers and practitioners
• A broad international audience
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology setting
• Discussion of the role and impact of technology on transportation issues and planning, new issues of security, and challenges for developing countries

Sessions will include:

• Urban mobility in developed countries
• Urban mobility in developing countries
• Intercity passenger transportation
• Intercity freight transportation
• Luncheon and keynote address
• Discussion by panel of stakeholders

Symposium Agenda

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