Location

Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland

Date

May 15-17, 2024

Details

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Organisation

• FHNW | University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Institute of Civil Engineering: Prof. Dr. Alexander Erath & Dr. Michael van Eggermond
• HSLU | University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne HSLU, Institute for Tourism and Mobility, Competence Center of Mobility: Prof. Dr. Timo Ohnmacht & Noah Balthasar

Keynotes

About Prof. Dr. Becky Loo

Becky P.Y. Loo is Professor of Geography at the University of Hong Kong, and Chair Professor of Jiangxi Normal University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom. Becky also holds an Honourary Professorship at University College London (UCL) and Beijing Jiaotong University. Her core research interests are i) transit, walkability and urban form; ii) road safety and spatial analysis; iii) sustainability and transport decarbonization; and iv) smart cities.

Becky is Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Travel Behaviour and Society and Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Geography. Her research papers are advancing the state-of-the-art in transport geography and her papers are often published in top-ranking journals with impact beyond her discipline. She is committed to fostering people-oriented and place-based interdisciplinary research. Her outstanding contributions to the local community have been recognized by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government with the conferment of the Justice of Peace (JP) title.

About Prof. Dr. Travis Waller

Steven “Travis” Waller is the Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, as well as a Professor at the Australian National University (ANU). Until his relocation to Germany in March 2022 he was Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney with previous roles at UNSW including Deputy Dean of Research (Faculty of Engineering), Founding and Executive Director of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) and the Advisian Chair of Transport Innovation. He began his tenure-track career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001 and, subsequently, at the University of Texas at Austin (where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007 and full Professor in 2011).

Travis explores the modelling and simulation of complex transportation networks with particular emphasis of emerging technology and the inclusion of social values. Particular applications have emphasized inherent system characteristics (e.g., dynamic assignment, adaptive equilibrium, strategic equilibrium), ethical quantification (e.g., environmental justice, equity, resilience) and emerging technology for planning tools (e.g., automation, decision-support). Across the aforementioned and related areas, he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, supervised 43 completed PhD students and conducted over 60 funded research projects for 40 global sponsors.

About Prof. Dr. Bert van Wee

Bert van Wee is professor in Transport Policy at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, faculty Technology, Policy and Management (since 2003). His main interests are in long-term developments in transport, in particular in the areas of accessibility, land-use transport interaction, (evaluation of) large infrastructure projects, the environment, safety, policy analyses and ethics.

His research interests are in transport policy relevant issues, such as environmental impacts, accessibility, evaluation of policies, plans, and infrastructure projects, land-use and transport interaction, transport and ethics, and the role of technology in the transport system and related policy relevant effects.