Date:

18th October 2002 (Friday)

Location:

New York State Department of Transportation, Albany, NY, USA

Coordinator:

Jose Holguin-Veras, jhv@rpi.edu

Course Fee:

Free.

Textbooks:

E. Taniguchi, R.G. Thompson, T. Yamada and R. van Duin “City Logistics---Network Modelling and Intelligent Transport Systems” Elsevier,Oxford, 2001

E.Taniguchi, R.G.Thompson (Eds.), “Innovations in freight transport”, WIT Press, Southampton, 2002 (to be published in September 2002)

Presenters

Jose Holguin-Veras (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
George List (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Eiichi Taniguchi (Kyoto University)
Russell Thompson (The University of Melbourne)
Johan Visser (Delft University of Technology)

Programme:

18th October 2002 (Friday)

8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 8:45 Opening remarks (List and Paaswell)
8:45 - 9:30 Introduction, concepts and vision for city logistics (Taniguchi)
9:30 - 9:45 Coffee break
9:45 - 10:30 Policy measures and public/private partnership (Visser)
10:30 - 11:15 Institutional issues: The freight industry in the US (Holguin- Veras/List)
11:15 - 12:00 Intelligent freight systems for sustainable cities (Thompson)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:45 The Japanese experience (Taniguchi)
13:45 - 14:30 The European experience (Visser)
14:30 - 15:00 Demonstration of computer software (Yoshii)