EcoMobility

8:00 Registration opens

9:30-11:00 Opening and welcome address

• Chair: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability 
• Wan-Su Park, Mayor, Changwon City (Republic of Korea) 
• Manfred Breithaupt, director of the Sustainable Urban Transport Project, GIZ – deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit: Sustainable transport in developing cities: Factors for success 
• Gil Peñalosa, Executive Director, 8–80 Cities: Creating vibrant and healthy cities for all: from 8 to 80

11:30-13:30 Plenary session: EcoMobile cities around the World

Senior city representatives presented some of the best EcoMobility case studies from around the world. Participants learned how cities’ achievements were reached, which challenges were faced during the implementation of mobility plans and how environmentally friendly modes such as walking, cycling and public transport were favored so citizens can move without a private car. Moreover, Changwon presented its achievements towards EcoMobility such as the implementation of the public bicycle sharing system NUBIJA, and introduced new and comprehensive plans to transform the city into the Environmental Capital of Korea.

• Chair: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
• Jong-Boo Kim, deputy Mayor, Changwon City (republic of Korea): Sustainable green transport city: Environmental Capital, Changwon
• Masashi Mori, Mayor, City of Toyama (Japan): Creation of a compact city through the renovation of public transport
• Hyonshik Kim, Assistant Mayor of Environmental Protection Headquarters, City of Seoul (republic of Korea): Eco-friendly transportation - Bus system reform: Median bus lane and introduction of eco-friendly buses
• Tracy Winfree, director of Public Works for Transportation, City of Boulder (USA): Transportation to sustain a community: The Boulder story
• Akira Murakami, director of the Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan): Traffic management policies

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-17:00 Plenary session: Mainstreaming EcoMobility

This plenary explored why EcoMobility is important as a contributor for sustainable development, and the social, environmental and economic benefits it delivers. Excellent examples of integrated EcoMobility approaches were presented.

• Chair: Fernando Nunes da Silva, deputy Mayor, City of Lisbon (Portugal)
• Eric Britton, New Mobility: Future of the automobile in the city: Vision, governance, opportunity
• Bernhard Ensink, Secretary General, European Cyclists’ Federation: Cycling: a key mode of transport for sustainable cities
• Bert Fabian, Transport Program Manager, CAI-Asia: Walkability in asian cities: State and issues
• Philippe Crist, Administrator, International Transport Forum: Irresistible or irrelevant? Ensuring the uptake of Ecomobility

17:00-17:30 EcoMobility exchange

The marketplace space served to provide visuals and facilitate interaction by displaying videos and images of various EcoMobility projects and encouraging participants to talk to experts, producers, and service providers.

17:30-19:00  Parallel sessions

A1 Bike sharing systems: Integrating bike sharing with the transportation system

A bicycle sharing system can play a major role to play in the city’s overall transportation system, such as increasing the use of public transport by providing an efficient solution to the “last mile” problem. This session focused on seamlessly integrating a bike sharing system with the overall transportation system in order to fully tap into its EcoMobility potential.

• Chair: Bernhard Ensink, Secretary General, European Cyclists’ Federation
• Syhy-Fang Liu, deputy Mayor, City of Kaohsiung (Chinese Taipei): Public Bike of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
• Hendrik Mlasowsky, Choice GmbH / OBIS project: Bike sharing and public transport: Individual meets collective
• Santhosh Kodukula, Senior Technical Expert, GIZ – deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit: Bike sharing systems in India

B1 EcoMobility innovation: Services and systems to promote EcoMobility

Various services and systems are needed to support a coherent EcoMobility strategy. This session looked at such innovations as integrated ticketing, car-sharing, car-pooling and flexible door-to-door transports.

• Chair: Tracy Winfree, director of Public Works for Transportation, City of Boulder (USA)
• Robin Chase, Founder & CEO, Buzzcar; Founder, Zipcar: how to quickly and cheaply finance, build and operate motorized transportation solutions: The old new secret
• Frits Lintmeijer, deputy Mayor for Transport, City of Utrecht (The Netherlands): Utrecht attractive and accessible: a new strategy for sustainable urban mobility in Utrecht
• Debra Efroymson, regional director, HealthBridge: Cheap and easy: Eco-solutions for door-to- door transport of people and goods
• Susan Zielinski, Managing Director, SMART
• Robert Paddon, Vice President, TransLink, Metropolitan Vancouver (Canada): Innovation and an integrated system

C1 Overcoming barriers: Solutions for challenging situations

Sometimes people try to find good reasons to make their private cars seem indispensable. However, there are in fact excellent EcoMobility solutions for situations where the private car appears to be the only option. Examples include public elevators in hilly cities, efficient pavement cleaning in snow affected cities, bicycle trailers to transport kids to school or goods from the grocery store, etc.

• Chair and presenter: Waltraut Ritter, research director, Hong Kong Foresight Centre: hot, hilly and crowded: EcoMobility for difficult cities
• Stephen Yarwood, Lord Mayor, City of Adelaide (Australia): Preparing an Integrated Movement Strategy to promote a less car-dependant city
• Oravit Hemachudha, Deputy Director-General of Traffic and Transportation, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration: Towards Bangkok as an EcoMobility city
• Michael Szeiler, Rosinak & Partner ZT GmbH: Bike & Buy: Promoting shopping by bicycle
• Jürgen Perschon, Executive director, EUrIST – European Institute for Sustainable Transport: Urban cable propelled transit systems: “high flying solution” to urban transport problems?

19:00 Dinner