Event Wrap Up: General Assembly at Thredbo15

Our General Assembly this year was held on Sunday August 13, 12:00 – 16:00 at the Ragnar room, Stockholm School of Economics.

We have the following attendees confirmed:

1. Allen, Jaime (PUC)
2. Aranda, Viviana (PUC)
3. Balbontin, Camila (USYD)
4. Bragdon, David (Transit Center)
5. Clifton, Geoffrey (USYD)
6. Currie, Graham (Monash University)
7. Dragicevic, Marina (PUC)
8. Galilea, Patricia (PUC)
9. Giesen, Ricardo (PUC)
10. Guarda, Pablo (UCL)
11. Gullberg, Anders (Cenre for Sustainable Communications)
12. Hensher, David (USYD)
13. Hidalgo, Darío (WRI)
14. Ho, Chinh Quoc (USYD)
15. Jackson, Jason (MIT)
16. Jiang, Sida (WSP Group)
17. Leishman, Adam (Tower Transit)
18. Lionjanga, Nahungu (UP)
19. Lonnroth, Mans (VREF)
20. Maia, Maria Leonor (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
21. Medeiros, Brenda (WRI Brasil)
22. Mokonyama, Mathetha (CSIR)
23. Moya, Jaime (PUC)
24. Mulley, Corinne (USYD)
25. Muñoz, Juan Carlos (PUC)
26. Nolmark, Henrik (VREF)
27. Peña, Elizabeth (PUC)
28. Royle, David (Forest Coach Lines)
29. Sagaris, Lake (PUC)
30. Schmidt, Alejandro (PUC)
31. Smith, Neil (Tower Transit)
32. Stanley, John (USYD)
33. Stone, Alastair (USYD)
34. Venter, Christo (UP)
35. Wilson, Nigel (MIT)
36. Wong, Yale (USYD)
37. Yen, Barbara (USYD)
38. Zegras, Christopher (MIT)
39. Ziebart, Jonathan (Tower Transit)

As in previous years, the General Assembly was proved to be a great success. Assistants had the chance to observe and give feedback to the progress reached by the projects in the Centre.

These were the projects presented during the meeting:

• Juan Carlos Muñoz – “When should an open (direct services) and or a closed (feeder‐trunk) BRT network be preferred”
• Chris Zegras – “Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning”
• Chris Zegras – “Crowdsourcing transport system performance and user satisfaction”
• Jaime Allen & Juan Carlos Muñoz – “Modelling satisfaction with public transport, a theory-driven approach”
• Camila Balbontin & Corinne Mulley – “Cross-Cultural drivers of preferences for Bus-Based and Rail-Based systems and Strategies to promote relevancy in PT investment”
• Juan Carlos Muñoz & Lake Sagaris – “Communications Plan”
• Ricardo Giesen – “Development of predictive models for public transport operations to improve user information, indicators and real-time forecast for operators and transit agencies”
• Juan Carlos Muñoz – “MOOCs and online strategy.”
• Juan Carlos Muñoz – “Start with: Design, operation and control of transit networks, including BRT systems”
• Darío Hidalgo – “The challenge of implementing BRT corridors”
• Chinh Ho & Corinne Mulley – “Mobility management for an integrated public transport system, including BRT”
• Jason Jackson – “Opportunities for integrating autonomous vehicles with public transportation/BRT systems”
• Brenda Medeiros – “Observatory”
• Lake Sagaris – “Strategic participation for diverse social contexts and sustainability transitions”