| 08.30 |
Morning Coffee
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| 09.00 |
Chairman’s Welcome And Recap of Day One
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| 09.15 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Status Report On The Roads Of Dubai, Now And In The Future
• An overview of the road system in Dubai
• An update on the status of current bridge and road projects
• A look at the years ahead
Eng. Maitha Bin Adai, Chief Executive Officer, Traffic And Roads Agency, Roads And Transport Authority (RTA), UAE |
| 10.00 |
EU Policies On Road Safety And Major Issues In Making Roads Safer In Europe
• Speed, drink driving, seat belts and crash helmets
• European Road Safety Charter: how Sweden, the UK and the
Netherlands have managed to reduce road crashes
• Enforcement of professional drivers’ hours
• Passive vehicle safety: role of infrastructure and ITS in creating safer roads
Tony Pearce, Former Director General, Senior Adviser
International Road Federation, Switzerland
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| 10.30 |
PANEL DISCUSSION
Understanding And Discussing Prospects And Obstacles In Gulf Regional Rail
• Short and long-term prospects
• Challenges and obstacles
• Passenger vs. freight
• The role of regional agreements
• Financing
• The major stumbling blocks to instituting regional rail
• Overcoming the practical and institutional challenges
Martin Lentsch, Senior Transport Economist, United Nations, KSA
Amer Khan, Director Of Consulting Services, PB, UAE
Dr. John McPherson, Chief Economist, CPCS, Canada
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| 11.15 |
Networking Break
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| 11.45 |
Exploring Innovative Transport Solutions With Limited Resources
• The road to Damascus
• Master multimodal approaches to urban congestion
Dr. Hassan Al Khiami, Professor, Civil Engineering Faculty, Transportation & Traffic Department
Damascus University, Syria
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| 12.15 |
Understand Better Rapid Transit (BRT) With Bus Rapid Transit
• The permanently integrated elements of BRT
• Case studies of successful BRT systems
• The applicability of BRT regionally
• Why BRT is not just for the under funded
William Vincent, General Council
Breakthrough Technologies Institute, USA
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| 12.45 |
The Role Of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) And Dubai
• Evaluate the TOD potential for Dubai
• Identify the key players in TOD
• Obligations of real estate developers in TOD
Amer Khan, Director Of Consulting Services,
PB, UAE
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| 13.30 |
Networking Lunch
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| 14.30 |
How Incident Management and Crash Investigation Must Be Coordinated
• Incident management and ITS
• Review best practice in incident management
• Learn about ITS and its incident management potential
Ed Seymour, Associate Agency Director
Texas Transportation Institute, USA
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| 15.00 |
The Link Between Operational Maintenance And Extreme Conditions
• The special challenges posed by local extreme conditions
• Life cycle costs and the impact of initial quality on maintenance
intervals and duration of railway track
• Review technologies adapted for desert dust, dirt and heat
Franz Sodia, Corporate Marketing,
VAE, Austria
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| 15.30 |
Planning For Parking In The Modern Urban Master Plan
• Do we have enough?
• Is it adequately designed?
• Who should provide it?
• Who should pay for it?
• Discuss the short and long term solutions
• Calculate the TRUE cost of parking
Professor Erik Ferguson, Institute Of Urban Planning & Design
American University Of Sharjah, UAE
Professor Parvis Koushki, Professor
Kuwait University, Kuwait
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| 16.15 |
Networking Break
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| 16.45 |
Understanding The Applications Of High Occupancy Toll (HOT) And High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes (HOV) And Congestion Charging
• The advantages of dedicated lanes
• The difference between HOT and HOV and their respective
advantages
• The applicability of such lanes in the Middle East
• Compare HOT/HOV to overall congestion charging schemes
• Road-charging in general in Dubai and the toll scheme
Professor Erik Ferguson, Professor Institute Of Urban Regional Planning & Design
American University of Sharjah, UAE
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| 17.30 |
Case Study – Successful Road Charging Scheme In Stockholm
• The success of Stockholm’s road access and charging scheme
• The unexpected ramifications of the implementation
• The applicability of Stockholm’s experience elsewhere
• How urban quality of life improved
• Lessons learned for Dubai’s road charging scheme: SALIK
Monica Sundström, Senior Advisor,
Swedish Road Administration, Sweden; Supervisory Board Chairman,
ERTICO, Belgium
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| 18.00 |
Chairman’s Closing Remarks |
| 18.15 |
Close Of Conference Day Two |