NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATION :

CODATU XIV: October 25-27, 2010 - Buenos Aires (Argentina)

The agreement between CODATU and the Municipality of Buenos Aires was signed on November 12, with from CODATU: Laurence LAFON and Jean-Claude ZIV and from Buenos Aires: Guillermo Dietrich, Deputy Secretary of Transportation and some members of the transport department. The Department of Cooperation and Cultural Action of the French Embassy was also present.

The call for papers written in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese) was sent to all our contacts in early October. You can download the document on the following link:
www.codatu.org/english/conferences/codatu14/Appel_a_com_codatu14.pdf

We remind you the conference’s theme and its 4 sub-themes:

Theme: «Sustainable transport and the quality of life in the city»

Sub themes:
- Policy of urban transport
- The offer of services of the sustainable transportation
- The individual motorized transport, agent of the sustainable urban mobility
- How to improve the quality of public transport?

We begin to receive some abstracts. We remind you that the deadline for submission of proposals is on December 31, 2009.
A meetting of the International Scientifc Committee scheduled at the General Council in October, will be held during the TRB on January 14, in Washington.

Lome:

The last 6 buses, purpose of the agreement between SYTRAL and the Municipality of Lome arrived at the end of November in Lome.
A notice of non objection was issued by AFD at the end of April for an expert mission related to the development of the buses network by SOTRAL.

This mission was entrusted to Effia. The study is made up of 3 phases:
- Diagnosis of the experimental line
- Developing the offer of the Sotral
- Functional recommendations

For the phase 1, Michel TINDANO (Effia’s senior planner) was in Lome for 5 weeks. During this phase, intervews whith all the SOTRAL’s staff and with users, surveys, counting in the buses, a visit of the depot and the experimental line were made.

Michel TINDANO benefited on the spot from the support and expertise of Xavier GODARD, CODATU’s advisor for the Mediterranean Region and Africa.
The launching meeting of the study was held on October 21, in the presence of the Mayor of Lome, representatives of the local AFD, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
The Minister of Transport is waiting for the results of this study to carry out some actions to support the SOTRAL.

The mission’s report (phase 1) should be finished by the end of December.

STUDY AFD/MEEDDM :

The handbook of good practices in funding urban transport is now available and will be soon downloadable on CODATU’s website, heading «studies».
A workshop was organized by the contracting planners (AFD / MEEDDM) with the support of CODATU on last November 30, to present and deliver this handbook to the people attending this meeting.
The context of the study was exposed, followed by some very interesting examples of the good practices in funding.

AFRICITIES 2009 : Marrakech (Morocco) - December 16-20 :

A special session of CODATU «Mobility in African ci es and public transport» was held on December 18 from 8:00am to 11:00am during the 5th Summit «AFRICITIES». The program was designed by Xavier GODARD, who will present this session in partnership with Abdellatif CHADALI of the DGCL Morocco. A «save the date» was sent to all our contacts.

DAMASCUS (Syria) : April 11-13, 2010 - Regional Conference on sustainable urban transport :

As part of the programme «sustainable urban transport» of the Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration, the French Development Agency is setting up a cycle of six meetings on 3 years : 2010-2012, registration’s fees free. The Damascus Conference, organized with CODATU’s support will be the first event of it.

Four main themes will be tackled: strategic framework, multimodal integration, urban structuring, environmental and social impacts. They will be studied thoroughly and continuously during the next meetings: four thematic workshops organized every semester between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2012.

A closing regional conference will review and the capitalize this work during the last quarter of 2012.

The meeting’s place will be alternately chosen in the South and North of the Mediterranean region. The main goal of the three years cycle of six meetings is to create a shared Mediterranean culture of good practices in sustainable urban transport.

On December 7 and 8, a delegation AFD - CODATU traveled to Damascus to meet the Syrian’s partners. The welcome was very warm and the exchanges constructive.


DIARY (New information in Red)

YEAR 2010

January 10-14– Washington DC (USA):
89th Annual congress of TRB.
>>> www.trb.org/meeting

February 3-4 – Palais des Congrès - Versailles (France):
Interna! onal congress ATEC-ITS: Mobility and future of territories: access to services.
>>> www.atec-itsfrance.net

February 8-11 – Quebec:
XIIIth International winter road congress.
>>> www.aipcrquebec2010.org

February 24-26 – Karlsruhe (Germany):
IT solutions for public transport.
>>> www.it-trans.org

March 2-6 – Lyon (France):
SOLUTRANS: The world transport week.
>>> www.solutrans.fr

March 12-13 – Dresden (Germany):
2nd Meetbike conference.
>>> www.srl.de

18-19 May – Zurich (Suisse):
18th Conference on transport and air pollution.
>>> www.airpl.org

May 25-28 – Lisbon (Portugal):
16th International Road Federation meeting (IRF).
>>> www.irf2010.com

May 25-28 – Liepzig (Allemagne):
International Transport Forum.
>>> www.internationaltransportforum.org/homefr.html

June 2-4 – Hong Kong (Chine):
12th International conference on Mobility and transport for elderly and disabled persons.
>>> www.transed2010.hk

June 7-10 – Bruxelles (Belgique):
TRA - Transport Research Arena - Europe 2010
>>> www.traconference.eu

June 8-10 – Paris/Porte de Versailles (France):
The international meeting place for decision makers in public transport, railways and mobility.
>>> www.it-trans.org

June 28- July 23 – Lyon (France):
20th session of summer university.
>>> www.let.fr/fr/enseignement/autre/universite_ete.html

July 11-15 – Lisboa (Portugal):
12th WCTR (World Conference on Transport Research)
>>> www.wctrs.org

July 15-18 – Lisbon (Portugal):
16th Panamerican congress of traffic, transport and logistic.
>>> www.panam2010.info

September 6-8 – Fukuda city (Japon) :
The 3rd International conference on transporta! on and logistics (T-LOG 2010).
>>> www.epfl .ch

September 16-19 – Kaohsiung city (Taïwan):
WST 2010: World Share 2010: Transport forum.
>>> www.sharetransport.org

October 3-7 – Dakar (Sénégal):
1st African congress on urban transport.
>>> www.uitp.org/events/events-calendar.cfm

October 10-13 – Petaling Jaya, Selangor (Malaysia):
8th Malaysian Road Conference (Sunway pyramid convention centre).
>>> www.mrc.org.my

October 11-13 – Glasgow (Scotland):
European Transport Conference 2010
>>> www.aetransport.org

October 24-26 - Abu Dhabi (Arab Emirates):
Roadex-Railex 2010
www.roadex-railex.com

October 24-27 - Burlington (Vermont)
19th National rural public and intercity bus transportation conference
www.trb.org/calendar

November 7-11 – Hong Kong (China):
TRANSED: 12th International Conference on Mobility and transport for Elderly and disabled people.
www.transed2010.hk

November 15-19 - Hong Kong (China):
6th Asia-pacific congress and showcase: Conference on Public Transport Financing
www.uitp.org

YEAR 2011

April 10-14 - Dubai (Arab Emirates):
UITP : 59th World Congress
www.uitp.org/events/2011/dubai/en/index.cfm

September 26-30 – Mexico (Mexique):
PIARC : 24th World road congress.
www.piarc.org/fr/evenements/detail3/

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