Thomas Thijssen President of the Amsterdam Association of Information Managers and researcher at the University of Amsterdam, member academic network UITP

The Clinton Global Initiative in Amsterdam, Seoul and San Francisco Through the innovative use of ICT cities can improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and enhance urban design and management Smart Travel Assistance with TomTom Nicola Villa, Global Head Connected Urban Development Cisco

A long-term vision of living, working and mobility is necessary Intelligent use of ICT for sustainable offices, e-work and intelligent information for passengers Ronald Prins, managing director of the Environmental & Building Department City of Amsterdam

A long-term vision of living, working and mobility Marijke Vos, alderman, City of Amsterdam

How to achieve more sustainable transport solutions?

Paul Steely White, executive director Transportation Alternatives New York

Green Cities and the relevance to quality of life Disconnect mobility from the adverse affects of mobility Optimally combining various modes of transport within the same transport chain Helle Søholt, founding partner GEHL Architects ApS

Consult travellers to improve your services The EU regulation for passenger rights form a basis Peter Staelens, European Passenger Federation

Focus on passenger’s needs and constant innovation Professional supply of multi modal mobility Peter Kortenhorst, CEO Connexxion

A single payment system for bus, train, metro and tram The security issues Gerben Nelemans, financial director TransLink Systems

Superbus, an innovative and dynamic concept? Chantal Cantarelli, student of prof. Bert van Wee of the Faculty of TBM Technical University of Delft

speaker	Mr. Kottenhof, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm
description	Presenting two studies in Stockholm and The Hague indicating the effects of dynamic at-stop real time information for passengers and the seven main effects on the passenger experience.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speakers	Mr. Jansse, DTV Consultants, Mr. Gommers, XTNT, Mr. De Munnik, Province of Noord-Brabant
description	Reporting on an extended pilot in engaging passengers in monitoring the quality of bus travel as input for improvement of the travel experience.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Rüger, Institute for Railway Engineering, Traffic Economics and Ropeways, Vienna University of Technology
description	In this study based on 22.000 questionnaires, the passenger wishes in railway travel are central to raise passenger satisfaction and eliminate problems with luggage in trains.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Rothe, PSI Transcom GmbH, Berlin
description	The requirements for dynamic passenger information systems are changing as competion increases and passenger expectations become higher. PSI reports on the experience with the installation of a system in 29 stations in Switzerland.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speakers	Mr. Gemperli, Continental Ag, Public Transport Solutions Neuhausen Switzerland
description	Based on the VDV-453 real-time interface Siemens VDO succesfully implemented intermodal in-vehicle dynamic passenger information in Switzerlands. This solution is now implemented on a larger scale.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Sarfati, SYSTRA/UIC ERTMS/GSM-R operations group
description	GSM-R offers a portfolio of features for railway networks to support operational staff and applications to enhance the service to passengers. Insights from European Standards and lessons learned are shared. The roll-out in 25 European countries and implementations in China and India shows the development to a de facto standard.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Jaeggi, ASCOM AG, Switzerland
description	PowerLine technology offers a new solution for public transportation applications providing high speed connectivity through Ethernet between and in train coaches. The benefits as well as the limits of this technology are presented. In addition the integration of on-board real time passenger information, video surveillance and other applications over an IP-based network are shown.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Gosda, Dresden University of Technology
description	Vehicle recognition and tracking are important problems in the field of ITS and IPTS. This presentation examines the differences between two approaches of vehicle tracking such as the Kalman Filter and another class of stochastic filter referred to as particle filters (PF).
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Clavel, CERTU, Lyon
description	Demand Responsive Transport services are public transport services, managed with small vehicles, which run only when there is a demand. Initially in rural area’s of France but more and more in urban areas. The concept and the state of the art of DRT services in France is presented with the role of enabling technology. Examples are provided.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mrs. Jain, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK
description	Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a system which allows for quick, non stop, door to door journeys, in a private cabin, providing an enhanced passenger experience, better than trains/buses, and similar to automobiles. The presentation reports on a cases study in Leeds based on questionnaires. The studies gives guidance for the potential implementation of innovative public transport systems and identifies the people who are most likely to use PRT.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Dohmen, IVU Traffic Technology Germany
description	This project is a joint research project between VDV (German Association of Passenger Transport Operators, industry partners, the PTO’s and a university. IVU is concentrating on the area’s of data management and vehicle on-board systems. Distel aims to develop standards for data and voice communication.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Wenzel, Funkwerk Information Technology
description	RIMOS is the central data pool based on VDV / SIRI which enables exchange of data between different transport systems and companies operating in the same public transportation area. The product RIMOS was developed as a 'central data pool' and has so far been in operation in two projects, one for the Stadtwerke München (SWM/MVG - Municipal Public Utilities Company, Munich) and the other for VRR in Gelsenkirchen (VRR –Transport Association Rhein-Ruhr).
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mrs. Demeyer, INTEC, Ghent University
description	The department of information technology presents research findings on the breakthrough in communications between several players in the multimodal transport chain. A communication platform is built, transport infrastructure is tagged through RFID for tracking and a planning agent is provided to allow for individual and dynamic routing in the transport network.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Elliot, Accenture Germany
description	Today’s passengers are demanding and expect fully integrated, end-to-end interoperability- a single ticket delivering instant access to any mode of transport for any journey. The platform presented creates full mobility services including parking and retail and decentralised single operators can seamlessly plug in to the system.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Kompfner, ERTICO
description	i-Travel is an original concept for 'the connected traveller' that combines key innovations: (1) a 'virtual travel assistant' service that accompanies a traveller before and throughout each journey, providing personalised, context-aware information (2) the integration of e-commerce and internet technologies to create the first B2B 'eMarketplace' (3) a wide-ranging community of content and service suppliers connect to customers through i-Travel. The motivation for i-Travel comes from a need to find a common solution for key problems faced by travellers, content suppliers and service providers.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Gründel, IVI Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden
description	Buying public transport tickets with mobile phones is the aim of a large scale pilot project in Germany. The presentation highlights the technologies, the architecture and the features and the use by passengers. The first findings of the pilot and the advantages to passengers and operators are shared.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room C

speaker	Mr. Lüke, Deutsche Telecom AG Laboratories
description	With intelligent mobile ticketing solutions the convenience of using public transport could be significantly increased. The project 'Ring&Ride', supported by the German Fedral Ministry of Economics and technology is presented. The fare is calculated at check out by reconstructing the route taken by the passenger. Results from a field trial in Berlin and user acceptance tests are given as well as the use of additional technologies as GPS and W-LAN.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mrs. Buchari, University of Liege
description	This presentation explores the phenomenon of multimodal transport and will focus on state of the art of multimodal public transport. Several researches regarding multimodal transport are discussed. The aim of this paper is to find the development system of public transport towards a Multimodal Public Transport system. Further, the development of the required system tool is divided into conceptual tool design, knowledge of processes, and testing of tool mechanism. Data of Palembang Household survey 1997 were used for detecting multimodality of passenger transports.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Wallbridge, Nomad Digital Ltd
description	Railways have experimented with methods for increasing communication with staff, passengers and the vehicle itself. In addition a need is identified for a range of applications as live passenger information, passenger entertainment, passenger counting, staff rostering, preventative maintenance, driver performance monitoring etc. The presentation addresses case studies of low cost mobile IP networks to meet these new demands.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Beela, Technical University Delft
description	Mobility research at the Delft Design Institute provides fresh knowledge from theory and practice on passenger needs and a number of innovative mobility solutions.
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Abad, Infoglobal
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

speaker	Mr. Holguin, INRIA
location	Amsterdam RAI, Room E

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