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NEWS FROM THE
ASSOCIATION :
CODATU’s General Assembly will be held on Wednesday, June 3rd at 5:00 pm in Lyon.
On that occasion, the renewal of some members of the General Council and the election of the new board will be held.
 CODATU XIV:
Laurence Lafon went to Buenos Aires from 30 March to 4 April, to meet the managers of different
departments of the municipality involved in the organization of CODATU XIV. The different articles of
the agreement were analyzed by both parties. Its signature is expected in early July in Lyon.
Some members of the International Scientific Committee (I.S.C.) met together to organize the scientific works :
- for reasons of greater efficiency, a sub committee of 6 persons was created: it will make proposals to be
approved later by
the members of the global I.S.C. (topics, sub topics, organization of sessions,...)
- the call for papers will be launched in September with a section for students and young researchers
whose papers don’t need to be formally presented at the conference but may be valued.
Lome:
The tender for the stoneresurfacing of the depot has just been launched. Works should be carried out from the middle of May. In addition, a motion of non objection from the city of Lome has been forwarded to AFD by the end of April: the goal is to benefit of funding for an expert’s valuation of SOTRAL.
CLATPU XV:
As a part of her mission in Argentina for CODATU XIV, Laurence Lafon followed some of the works of CLATPU. In order to improve the study AFD/MEEDDAT image with the agreement of the owners, she asks to Françoise Meteyer-Zeldine, consultant in charge thereof, to present the results in the same form as in
CODATU XIII (www.codatu.org/english/studies/HCMV_14-11-08_diaporama.pdf).
Seminar Santiago, Chile (6-8 avril 2009) «Technology days Franco-Chilean: city and services»:
Because of the encountered problematics in the mai Chilean cities (Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepcion), the economic services of the French Embassy in Chile planed in November 2008 to organize a seminar of three days on urban services (2 days: urban transport, 1 day: other service) in April 2009.
They received the support of the Franco-Chilean Chamber of commerce, of MEEDDAT, of the Region Ile de France and of the Chilean Ministry of Transportation.
As the topic «urban transport» was one of the major topics, the Embassy requested the support of CODATU
for validating the technical organization of the seminar and for experts.
Françoise Meteyer-Zeldine, consultant in charge of the study AFD /MEEDDAT presented the first results
of the study and stressed the importance to have an organizing authority of transport.
Bernard Rivalta, President of SYTRAL, the organizing authority of transport in Lyon, presented the network
of Lyon and stressed too the importance to have an organizing authority of transport well structured. Their
presentations were greatly appreciated.
In other respects, Bernard Rivalta as Grand Lyon’s vice-President and Representative of Gerard Collomb, the Mayor of Lyon and President of Grand Lyon, invited the Mayors of Santiago and Valparaiso to come on the 8th December in Lyon, for the lights’s festival.
Actually, these cities would like to organize an event similar in 2010, the 200 years birthday of the independence of Chile. mbers of the General Council and the election of the new board will be held.
NEWS FROM MEMBERS :
Matthieu Desiderio, new member of CODATU, took part in the 10th Annual golden Spike Seminar organised
by the Indiana High Speed Rail Association, on the 19th and 20th of March 2009 in Merrillville, Indiana (USA).
His presentation on the intermodal systems in the field of passengers’s transportation and on the involvement of private companies in the public transport sector has been welcomed by an audience of a hundred people: professionals of the rail industry, economic services and chambers of commerce (German, French, Spanish, etc...), members of the Indiana High Speed Rail Association, local people interested in the development of rail transportation in the American Midwest, etc...
The organizers were really very surprised by the success of this seminar. The recent announcements made by the American Federal Government about the funding of transport, particularly with the recovery plans, has probably caused a growing interest in the topics discussed at this seminar. Indeed, it was dedicated to high speed rail and by extension to the sustainable urban mobility.
More, we have to notice the attendance of the French actors who are responsible for a large part to the success of this event. The presence of Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Managing Director of SNCF International, and Mr Charles Wochele, Vice President of Alstom North America in charge of Business Development has indeed attracted competitors from neighbouring countries: Siemens, Talgo, etc. As a proof of the success of this event, the press titled that the SNCF is very interested by the high-speed rail system in the USA (AFP-reprinted in «Les échos», March 20, 2009), among other articles taken by other media.
Last, this event was an opportunity in front of an American public always fond of knowledge in this sector, to apply again our willingness to share and exchange French-European best practices for a development of an individual mobility through means (offers, services, infrastructure) always more respectful to wands the environment.
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DIARY (New information in Red)
YEAR 2009
May 19-22 - Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud):
Conference on african road.
www.terrapinn.com/2009/roadza
May 27-29 - Leipzig (Germany):
International Transport Forum – Transport and Globalisation.
www.internationaltransportforum.org
June 2-4 -Toulouse (France) :
ETTAP2009 : 3ème symposium sur l’environnement et le transport
www.inrets.fr/services/manif/ettap09/index.htm
June 2-5– Lisbon (Portugal):
16th International Road Federation meeting (IRF).
www.irf2009.com/irf2009/
June 9-10 – Batna (Algérie):
Road safety: state of the art in the Maghreb countries.
www.univ-batna.dz or
workshop_batna2009@univ-batna.dz
June 7-11 – Vienna (Austria):
World Congress – 58th World congress and mobility & city transport exhibition.
www.uitp.org/events/2009/vienna/en
June 14-16- Stuttgart (Germany) :
Cities for mobility world congress 2009.
www.cities-for-mobility.net
June 22-24 - Bologna (Italy) :
Urban transport 2009.
www.wessex.ac.uk
June 24-26 - Paris (France) :
www.waset.org
June 28-30 – Marseille (France):
Symposium «Cities and climate change».
www.urs2009.net
July 3 - Brussels (Belgium) :
SPUTNIC: Strategies for public transport in cities.
www.uitp.org
July 6-9 - Pretoria (South Africa) :
28th Southern african transport conference.
www.up.ac.za
August 9-12 – San Antonio (Texas):
Annual Meeting d’ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers).
www.ite.org/meetcon/index.asp
August 24-26 - Riga (Latvia) :
27th International Baltic Road Conference.
www.lvceli.lv
September 23-26 - Incheon Metropolitan city (South Korea):
13th REAAA International Conference
www.reaaakorea2009.com/index.asp
October 4-9 - Taipei, Kaohsiung (Taiwan):
33rd world congress of the urban development of INTA
www.inta-aivn.org
October11-14 - Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) :
Urban Transport World Saudi Arabia 2009.
www.terrapinn.com/2009/utsa
October 18-22 -Porto (Portugal):
45th ISOCARP International Congress
www.2009.isocarp.org
October 19-22– Surabaya (Indonesia):
8th conference of EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies.
www.easts.info/
October 24-27 - Doha (Qatar):
2nd MENA Public Transport Congress and Showcase
www.uitp.org/events/2009/qatar/en/index.cfm
October 25-27 - Cape Town (South Africa):
Promoting road safety for vulnerable road users
www.piarc.org/en/congresses-seminars/2665.htm
October 26-28 - Singapore:
2nd World Roads conference.
www.wrcsingapore.sg
November 11-13 - Antigua (Guatemala):
3rd international symposium TREMTI2009
www.eupave.eu/documents/events/tremti-2009.xml
November 25-27 – Nice acropolis (France):
GART-UTP - 22ème rencontres nationales du transport public.
www.objectiftransportpublic.com
December 6-8 - Dubai (Arab Emirates):
Gulf Traffic 2009: Keeping the middle-east on the mobe
www.gulftraffic.com
YEAR 2010
January : Washington DC (USA)
89th Annual congress of TRB.
www.trb.org/meeting
February 8-11 – Quebec:
XIIIth International winter road congress.
www.aipcrquebec2010.org
February 24-26 – Karlsruhe (Germany):
Make IT work 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
May 25-28 - Lisbon (Portugal):
16th International Road Federation meeting (IRF)
www.irf2010.com
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
July 11-15 – Lisboa (Portugal):
12th WCTR (World Confernece on Transport Research)
www.wctrs.org
July 15-18 - Lisbon (Portugal) :
16th Panamerican congress of traffic, transport and logistic.
www.panam2010.info
October 24-26 - Abu Dhabi (Arab Emirates):
Roadex-Railex 2010
www.roadex-railex.com
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 - Dubai (Arab Emirates):
UITP : 59th World Congress
www.uitp.org
September 25-30 – Mexico (Mexique):
PIARC : 24th World road congress.
www.piarc.org/fr/evenements/detail3/
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