4c. Sustainable Transportation (Delivering equitable access to more effective and efficient transport services)

Track Chairs:

Daniel Paez. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. dpaez@uniandes.edu.co

Paul Hooper. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. p.d.hooper@mmu.ac.uk

Goals and objectives of the track

Social inclusiveness is a core priority for transport systems given their role in providing the mobility essential to accessing services. At a time of public sector austerity this priority raises some important questions:

Which sections of society should be prioritised when planning transport services
To what end are we providing transport services? Is the aim to deliver economic, environmental and/or social outcomes?
If beneficial outcomes are competing how should trade-offs be determined and decisions made?
If we cannot expect to simply future proof transport infrastructures by extrapolating from existing traffic flows, how do we address effectiveness, efficiency and equity in future planning?

Contributions are invited that address these questions from the perspective of:

Technology - to what extent do new technologies offer a capacity to reduce the environmental impact of transport services whilst addressing access and equity issues?
Policy and planning - are politicians willing to introduce potentially unpopular policies that overcome social resistance to change?
Finance - how can price signals be designed to incentivise travellers to choose the best option from environmental and social perspectives?
Smart city concepts - are we fully exploiting opportunities afforded by more integrated planning to reduce demand for transport services?
Social change - what are the best means of empowering and engaging user groups in the shift to more sustainable transport systems?
Integrated planning - Could we reduce the need of travel of its intensity by combining better urban and transport planning?

You may submit your abstract by visiting the Ex Ordo abstract submission system (you will be required to setup an account first): http://isdrs2017.exordo.com

Daniel Paez is Civil Engineer with a PhD in Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He has worked for top management consulting firms, the public sector and academia. For the past 5 years he holds a position in Los Andes University in Colombia as lecturer and Director of the Regional and Urban Sustainability research group. Dr Paez´s main interests are in the areas of transport, land administration and spatial analysis. He has conducted research in multiple topics including climate change, transport and land-use integration, and community development. Currently he holds the position of Secretary of the United Nations Academic Network of the Global Geospatial Information Management Committee (UN-GGIM). He has published extensively and participated as a speaker in multiple conferences in Australia, Spain, USA, Singapore, and many nations in Latin-American.

Prof Paul Hooper BSc, MSc, PhD holds a Chair in Environmental Management and Sustainability and is Head of Enterprise Development in the School of Research, Enterprise and Innovation, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University. His work contributes to the Centre for Aviation, Transport and the Environment where he provides research, training and consultancy services to the aviation industry on stakeholder engagement, noise communication, corporate responsibility, sustainability reporting and carbon management and accounting. Commercial clients include; the International Air Transport Association, the Airports Council International and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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