July 24

Agenda and Presentations and Synopses of Breakout Sessions on Shanghai, Santiago, Nairobi and Chengdu

Session 1. Moderator: Carlos Daganzo, Director, UC Berkeley for Future Urban Transport (all presentation links are to PowerPoint slides)

• Welcome and Overview (Carlos Daganzo, Director)
• China Trip: Findings and Collaborative Opportunities (Yuwei Li, Deputy Director)
• "Mobility Benefits of Accessibility Planning" (Mobility & Accessibility Track, Robert Cervero)
• "Implications of Electric Bicycle Use in China: Analysis of Costs and Benefits" (Mobility & Accessibility Track, Chris Cherry)
• "Rail Transit Impacts on Trip Making and Land Development in Shanghai, China" (Guest Presentation, Haixiao Pan, Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China)

Session 2. Moderator: Michael Cassidy

• "Urban Transportation Physics: BLIPS, Green Logistics, Gridlock, Self-Synchronizing Buses, Evacuation, Safety" (System Physics/Adapting to Urban Form Track, Carlos Daganzo, Nik Geroliminis, Josh Pilachowski, Stella So, Offer Grembek)
• "Gridlock in Cities" (System Physics/Adapating to Urban Form Track, Nik Geroliminis)

Session 3. Moderator: Robert Cervero

• "Building a Transport Policy for Nairobi," (Guest Presentation, Elliott Sclar, Director, and Julie Touber, Assistant Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University)
• Guest Presentation (Ronaldo Ballasiano, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute, Graduate School and Research in Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• "Current and Future Research in Urban Transport Problems at the Transportation Engineering Group Universidad Católica de Chile" (Guest Presentation, Juan Carlos Munoz, Universidad Católica de Chile)

Session 4. Moderator: Yuwei Li

• "Green Logistics" & "Life-Cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation" (Nakul Sathaye and Mike Chester)
• "Congestion Mitigation" (Anthony Patire)
• "Toward a New Generation of Traffic Control Systems" (Marco Zennaro)

Session 5. Moderator: Samer Madanat

• Brainstorming to define breakout themes and organize sessions

• Breakout sessions on synergy, future directions, etc.
• Summary (290 HMB)

Synopses of Breakout Sessions

• Shanghai Breakout Group: "Rationalizing Metro Stations"
• Santiago Breakout Group: "Increasing Transit Use"
• Nairobi Breakout Group: "Bus Rapid Transit and 'Matatu' Rapid Transit"
• Chengdu Breakout Group: "Land Use, Congestion Management and Transit Networks"