information on the first world forum on sustainable mobility

1st World Forum on
sustainable mobility
(
)
Sustainable mobility :
understanding and managing the changes
towards a post-carbon world
International Convention Centre
Nantes - France
10/11/12 December 2007
www.governance-mobility.org
[email protected]
1st World Forum on sustainable mobility • International Convention Centre • Nantes - France •10/11/12 December 2007
> Living and moving in a post-petrol world
W
hat if cities could save the planet? This is a curious paradox. Yet, the mobilisation of
many cities throughout the world proves that solutions exist in the fight against global
warming. Reducing the emission of greenhouse gases does bring the question of urban or interurban transportation of people and goods at the heart of the discussion. As a resulting principle,
sustainable mobility proves to be a key issue. For the past thirty years, a number of actions have
been experienced in all continents such as in Stuttgart, Curitiba and more recently in Bangalore.
In France, Nantes is regarded as a pioneer in this field. In the same frame of mind, the city of Nantes
and the Pays de la Loire Region are backing the organisation of the 1st World Forum on Sustainable
mobility. Expected to become a biennal meeting place, the event will offer cross reflection
amongst elected representatives, scientists, experts and NGOs as civil society members. It will
also initiate new research programmes towards long-term solutions. For once, the dimension of
the project is not purely theoretical and each protagonist will go back with concrete objectives
to meet. Then, the various experiences, successful or not, will be put together to help bring out the
dynamics of the following forum.
The first forum aims at raising a number of questions and exploring new avenues for reflection. For
example, how to position mobility as part of sustainable development policies? How responsible
will each individual be in this complex issue (citizen, decision-maker, socio-economic actor)?
What type of coordination to encourage amongst these actors? As citizens, what constraints are
we ready to accept in our daily lives? How is it possible to reconcile the struggle against poverty
with protection of environment via sustainable mobility? Which dialogue should be considered
between the cities located in the richer countries and those in developing countries?
We all know that transportation in a non-carbon economy is not going to happen in one day. To
this end, local authorities alongside with citizens are playing and will play a central part. To go
beyond the trial stage, they will need sustainable mobility and ideas. They will need to discuss,
bring in their competence and adopt a prospective vision that will only be possible if they work
together with researchers and scientists. It is the prime objective of the “Governance & Mobility”
forum to assist them in this matter.
Anh Hoà Truong,
Courrier International
To participate and contribute : www.governance-mobility.org
> Local territories, decisional territories
B
y bringing together local
elected representatives,
researchers, experts and members of the civil society, the organisers of the World Forum
on sustainable mobility are
raising the fundamental questions of local governance, regional planning, economic and environmental development, education, research and civil expertise. All these questions show one same concern: how to maintain
and ensure the quality of our common heritage
without jeopardizing the movements of people
and goods?
The time has come to take new steps, to launch
innovative actions and encourage virtuous
behavioural patterns. More than ever before, each
and every move made here or elsewhere takes on
a world dimension. Sustainable mobility is one
element of these remarkable dynamics that we
need to support.
Our organisation is of course directly concerned
by this action and wishes to help bring together
its many different partners to create active
international cooperation with a view to being
part of tomorrow’s “sustainable territories”. In this
effervescent atmosphere, intelligence together
with local and global experiences will father new
avenues and solutions.
A
t this time of greater worldwide awareness on climate
change, urban mobility takes
on a new dimension with questions that need to be answered.
Aware of the central role they
must play, local authorities are
getting more and more involved in the search
for innovative solutions that are to be found
through the exchange of various experiences
and experimental actions being led in different
urban areas.
Nantes has always been a crossroads for research and innovation in the field of transport.
We have always been receptive to new ideas
and responses brought at a European and international level, such as the tramway, the BusWay,
river shuttles, intermodality, carsharing, mobility schemes. These are many innovations that
have permitted the City of Nantes to reconcile
development with quality of life.
In the field of mobility, things are not easily
decided and decision-makers have to take
into account the population’s mobility habits
and accompany people in their evolution.
Paradoxically, whereas digital society has made
information transmission so easy, people’s
mobility needs continue to increase.
This is the reason why we salute the World Forum
on sustainable mobility whose aim is to bring
together mobility players from all over the world.
Whether from the North or the South, rich or not
so rich, they all face the same challenge: how to
manage mobility in international large cities?
I would like to invite you, in your own field of activity
and with your competence, to take part in this
confrontation of ideas and in the cross reflection
amongst representatives from all five continents,
in order to draw a broad outline of sustainable
mobility which is at the heart of our development
strategies in our territories.
I would like to invite you to take part in the 1st World
Forum on sustainable mobility. May we, from our
collective reflection, bring in new solutions to this
permanent challenge that is sustainable mobility.
Jacques Auxiette,
President
Pays de la Loire Regional Council
Jean-Marc Ayrault,
Member of Parliament and Mayor of Nantes,
President, Nantes City Council
1st World Forum on sustainable mobility • International Convention Centre • Nantes - France •10/11/12 December 2007
> From the need of international cooperation
between local authorities and researchers …
Debates between researchers, elected representatives and citizens
The Forum aims at providing a unique platform to carry out worldwide discussions amongst those who
have a deep knowledge of the risks and problems of mobility, in the hope of meeting the challenges of sustainable
development.
The Forum will be an opportunity for dialogues between local authorities in charge of mobility policies with
experts and researchers specialised in the questions about mobility.
This exchange of information and experiences, the building of necessary mutual working relations will hopefully
lead to the emergence of the right solutions to local problems.
The Forum will aim at formulating collective strategies and will act as an “observatory”. On this basis and from the
work performed outside the scope of the Forum, the question will be reviewed every two years.
> … To the objectives of the forum
• How to position mobility
as part of the sustainable development policies adopted by cities and territories with a view to reducing emissions
of greenhouse gases.
• Identify the conditions of success to contribute to the objectives of sustainable
mobility
What level of decision? What type of financing? What is the appropriate questioning related, amongst others,
to the objectives of cooperation and international exchanges and to the disruption of the “carbon economy”?
• Measure the effects and opportunities of sustainable mobility policies
How to draw conclusions from the current practices? Which research programmes should be initiated?
What type of new cooperation to encourage? Which financing tools should be used? What type of governance?
• Raise the issue of coordination amongst authorities
The position of local authorities in the definition and the implementation of mobility policies, the tools necessary
for national and international coordination, the position of social influential organisations and of citizens.
• Measure the impact of sustainable mobility policies
on the environment, individual and social behaviour and economy.
To participate and contribute : www.governance-mobility.org
> Organisation committees
Chair of the committees: Chantal DUCHÈNE, General Director of the GART
Steering committee
Scientific committee
• Pays de la Loire Regional Council
• Mr. David BANISTER,
Director of Research at the Bartlett School of Planning
at University College London
− Mr. Jacques AUXIETTE, President of the Regional Council
− Mr. Jean-Claude ANTONINI,
First Vice-President of the Regional Council
− Mr. Gilles BONTEMPS
Vice-President of the Regional Council,
in charge of transport policies
• Nantes Métropole
− Mr. Jean-Marc AYRAULT, President
− Mr. Camille DURAND, Vice-President,
in charge of transport policies
• Groupement des Autorités Responsables
de Transport (GART)
− Mr. Michel DESTOT, President
• World Bank
− Mrs Maryvonne PLESSIS-FRAISSAR,
Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development Network,
Vice President Office
• European Investment Bank Group (EIB)
− Mr. Henry MARTY-GAUQUIE, Directorate-General
for Energy and Transport of the European Commission
• Direction Générale de l’Energie et des Transports
(DG Tren), de la Commission Européenne
− Mr. Matthias RUETE, Director-General
• International Union of Public Transport (UITP)
− Mr. André NIEMEGEERS, Director
Knowledge & Membership services
• Cooperation for Urban mobility in the developing world
(CODATU)
− Mr. Christian PHILIP, President
• Association for European Transport (AET)
− Mr. Rob SHELDON, Chairman
• United Cities and local governments (CGLU)
• Mr. Yves CROZET,
Professor, University of Lyon,
Head of the Institute of Transport Economics (LET)
• Mr. Sandeep DASH,
Expert in Transport, City of Bangalore (India)
• Mr. Thierry DELARBRE,
Managing Director of the competitiveness cluster
«Cities and sustainable mobility»
• Mrs Dominique DRON,
Professor at the Paris Ecole des mines
• Mr. Philippe de FONTAINE VIVE CURTAZ,
Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB),
represented by Mr. Marty-Gauquie
• Mr. Ralph GAKENHEIMER,
Professor Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT)
• Mr. Vincent KAUFMANN,
Managing Director, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne
• Mr. Jean-Philippe LESTANG,
Head - International Business Development for SCE Memoris
• Mr. Klaus MANDEL,
Geographer, Regionalreferent, Verband Region Rhein-Neckar
• Mr. Marc-Antoine MARTIN,
Secretary General of The French Global Environment Facility
(FGEF)
• Mr. Patrick MORAND,
Deputy-Director, Continuing Education Department
at the University of Nantes
− Mrs Elisabeth GATEAU, Secretary General
• Local Governements for Sustainability (ICLEI)
− Mr. Gino Van BEGIN, Regional Director for Europe, ICLEI
• Cities for Mobility
− Mr. Wolfgang SCHUSTER
• Group SCE Memoris
− Mr. Jean-Philippe LESTANG,
Head - International Business Development
• French National Institute for Transport and Safety
Research (INRETS)
− Mr. Guy BOURGEOIS, General Director
• Mrs Claire NICLAUSE,
Deputy-Director for European and International affairs, French
National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS)
• Mr. Ulrich PAETZOLD,
President of FIEC (European Construction Industry Federation)
• Mr. Cesar Augusto RUIZ,
Transport Director, City of Bogota
• Mr. Jack SHORT,
Secretary General of the International Transport Forum
1st World Forum on sustainable mobility • International Convention Centre • Nantes - France •10/11/12 December 2007
> Contributions, terms of participation
Governance & mobility aims at :
Identifying innovative issues, facilitating fruitful discussions and building long-term exchanges that will
permit transcontinental cooperation projects combining “research” and “territory”.
To do so and in conclusion to the work of the Scientific Committee, the forum has addressed two calls
towards the following actors:
• elected representatives or technicians working for a local or regional authority and in charge of transport and
mobility policies, climate plan, Agenda 21, environment, urban and regional planning,
• scientists or researchers in a public or private organisation, research & development departments of private
companies, people in charge of a research programme with possible applications in the field of mobility,
• members of a non governmental organisation specialised in environment, social issues, mobility and transport,
> A call for contributions
showing the various actions put in place locally and the past or current research programmes
along the following themes:
1 > Position, instruments and impact of sustainable mobility policies
The energy crisis, the drastic climate changes and the unfavourable development of territories are driving decisionmakers to think of new mobility policies that take sustainable development into account and that consider mobility in its
different aspects and as part of other local policies.
2 > Mobility and governance
The very challenging implementation of sustainable mobility that decision-makers, citizens, social and economic actors
together with transport companies are facing requires radical changes in the very short term and on a very large scale.
Converting the new approaches on mobility into reality relies on means and on the agreement from both population and
business to meet the objectives of sustainable mobility.
3 > Sustainable mobility and controversial issues
What are the issues that split today’ s actors on the question of sustainable mobility?
As part of the Forum, we wish to open an area devoted to public discussion on those controversial issues, in order to
broaden our collective understanding of these issues
Reply or contact :
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> Agenda - Forum 2007
Sunday 9 decembre > Welcome and registration / Opening ceremony
Monday10 decembre
Tuesday 11 decembre
Wednesday12 decembre
> Keynote Opening Address
> 1 thematic Plenary Session
> 8 Workshops
> Mobility coffee
> 2 thematic Plenary Sessions
> 8 Workshops
> Mobility coffee
> Mobility official dinner
> 1 thematic Plenary Session
> Keynote Closing Address
> Mobility coffee
> Technical visits
To participate and contribute : www.governance-mobility.org
> A call for research projects
expressing your needs and your proposals for research projects around the following five themes :
1 > What are the possible scenarios for sustainable territories in 2030?
How to go towards more accessible territories that consume less energy, emit less greenhouse gases, present a higher
potential for acceptable growth, with new concepts of mobility for people and goods?
2 > What type of governance to generate new behavioural patterns in mobility of people and
goods in order to face challenges : how to act, with whom, with what results?
The challenges that decision-makers, citizens, social and economic actors together with transport professionals are
facing will require radical changes in a very short time and on a very large scale. If everyone’s behaviour is to change, the
political leadership is the one that has to put these necessary changes into action, in the group’s interests and in respect
of individuals.
3 > Harmonised time periods for decision and for action
Trying to reconcile the time periods of citizens (short timing), politicians (mandate), researchers (programme) and
economic actors (product or service cycle).
4 > The coherence of actions in the territories for local and global sustainable mobility
Political responsibility is exercised first at the level of a territory and its population. Sustainable mobility questions the
political choices in regional planning. Political decision-makers need to set priorities to share space, to locate activities,
to define the type and the level of energy dependence, to apply technologies and to set out programmes of sustainable
development. Their choice of governance affects the population and the actors in the territory.
5 > Sustainable mobility for all and for a sustainable development
Sustainable mobility is also equitable. It aims at reinforcing social integration as well as equity amongst people, notably
by taking into consideration the cost of localisation and land availability, with a view to offering the best conditions for
human and economic development and to keeping the economic actors within the territory.
Reply or contact :
[email protected]
> Forum - For whom?
• The scientific world: scientists, researchers in fundamental sciences or in human and social
sciences, working in a public or private organisation, research & development departments of
private companies, people in charge of research programmes with possible applications in the
field of mobility.
• Local authorities: elected representatives or technicians working for a local or regional
authority and in charge of transport and mobility policies, climate plan, Agenda 21, environment,
urban and regional planning.
• Citizens: members or representatives of a non governmental organisation specialised in
environment, social issues, mobility and transport, citizens’ associations, economic actors,
representatives of transport users and trade unions, teachers.
> Location
International Convention Centre
Nantes Métropole
TGV
Railway
Station
Nantes Atlantique International Airport
Nantes Atlantique International Airport > about 20 direct flights abroad
TGV railway station: 21 high speed trains every day > every half-hour at peak times
International Convention Centre Nantes Metropole > 5 minutes from the railway station – at the heart of the city – public transports nearby
> Information and registration
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www.governance-mobility.org
> General organisation
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