May 3rd, 2002
Wong Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
(Registration Required)

Preliminary Agenda

8:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 a.m. Opening Session

Welcome (Daniel Roos/Daniel Hastings)
WBCSC Sustainable Mobility Project (Arve Thorvik, WBCSD)
Overview of Mobility 2001 and major issues (George Eads, Charles River Assoc.)

9:30 a.m. Session 1: Urban Transportation in Developed Countries
Topics covered include: Infrastructure; Security; Congestion; Conventional pollution & ecological impacts; Energy use/global warming; Access/mobility issues.

Moderator: David Marks, MIT

Kenneth Orski, Senior Transportation Consultant
John Heywood, MIT
David Bayliss, Senior Transportation Consultant, UK

10:35 a.m. Coffee Break

10:55 a.m. Session 2: Urban Transportation in Developing Countries
Topics covered include: Megacities; Infrastructure; Congestion and rapid motorization; Safety and security; Development of environmental and safety regulations; Access/mobility issues; Freight

Ralph Gakenheimer, MIT
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota "A Practitioner's Perspective on Big Change in Urban Mobility"

12:00 Noon Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Larry Burns, General Motors Vice President for Research and Development

1:40 p.m. Session 3: Regional and Intercity Transportation
Topics covered include: Air travel; Airport siting and congestion; Passenger rail; Impact of security concerns on intercity passenger transportation; Rail vs. truck; Inland waterways; Long distance vs. urban/regional freight; Energy use of freight transportation; Freight contribution to congestion, noise, accidents; Impact of security concerns on intercity freight transportation

Moderator: Joseph Sussman, MIT

Kevin Neels, Charles River Assoc.: Intercity Passenger Transportation
Carl Martland, MIT:Intercity Freight Transportation
Stephen Flynn, Senior fellow, National security studies

3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:50 p.m. Concluding Panel: Sustainable Mobility - Future Needs and Options/Phase III Plans

Moderator: Daniel Roos, MIT

Presenter: Deborah Zemke, Ford Motor Company

Panel Discussion:
Masayuki Sasanouchi, Toyota
Emil Frankel, U.S. Department of Transportation
Michael Replogle, Environmental Defense
Yossi Sheffi, MIT
World Bank representative (unconfirmed)

5:00 p.m. Conclude