Message-ID: <9601111531.AA05415@mail.cee.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:31:15 -0600 From: Jean Martin <mailto:jmartin@MAIL.CEE.UMN.EDU> Subject: Call for Papers: PRT and Other Systems To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
CALL FOR PAPERS AND FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRT AND OTHER EMERGING TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS November 18-20, 1996 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sponsors: ITS Institute and the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the dilemma urban areas face as they try to reconcile often conflicting demands created by automobile pollution and congestion, economic need, and continuing expansion. Conventional transit systems designed to solve this problem have attracted relatively few riders. To solve the dilemma, planners, developers, government officials, engineers designers and others must think outside the box in order to develop new systems that may reduce cost and improve service.
The combined technical, social, institutional, financial and resource problems posed by developing emerging systems seem formidable. Some of the questions or issues to be addressed at the conference include: * How policy makers and planners can confront the transportation dilemma * Minimum requirements for emerging transportation systems * Developing systems whose costs can be covered from the fare box * Funding emerging systems now and in the future * Identifying problems inherent in designing new systems in communities * Identifying problems and benefits of new systems for goods movement * Social, economic, and environmental implications of new systems * Extending new systems to intercity applications
General themes for paper submissions include: * Specific emerging systems * Technology of PRT, Dual Mode, and other emerging transportation systems: controls, switching, guideways, vehicle design, station design, operations * Market analysis: demand studies, travel behavior, competition with existing modes, land development opportunities * Application studies: major activity center systems, intracity or intercity systems, intermodal systems * Finance and development strategies * Impact studies: visual, environmental, social, economic
Submit an abstract in English (up to 300 words) by March 1, 1996. Include the title of the presentation, name, affiliation, address, phone, fax, and e-mail addresses of the author(s). Authors whose papers are accepted are expected to register for the conference. The fee has been set at $US 395. Mail or fax abstracts to:
Sue Burke Professional Development and Conference Services University of Minnesota 315 Pillsbury Drive S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455-0139 USA
For additional conference information, contact Sue Burke by phone [(612) 625-3530] or e-mail [mailto:sburke@mail.cee.umn.edu] The PDCS home page can be found at http://www.cee.umn.edu/pdcs/