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:
- Allen, Jaime (PUC)
- Aranda, Viviana (PUC)
- Balbontin, Camila (USYD)
- Bragdon, David (Transit Center)
- Clifton, Geoffrey (USYD)
- Currie, Graham (Monash University)
- Dragicevic, Marina (PUC)
- Galilea, Patricia (PUC)
- Giesen, Ricardo (PUC)
- Guarda, Pablo (UCL)
- Gullberg, Anders (Cenre for Sustainable Communications)
- Hensher, David (USYD)
- Hidalgo, Darío (WRI)
- Ho, Chinh Quoc (USYD)
- Jackson, Jason (MIT)
- Jiang, Sida (WSP Group)
- Leishman, Adam (Tower Transit)
- Lionjanga, Nahungu (UP)
- Lonnroth, Mans (VREF)
- Maia, Maria Leonor (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
- Medeiros, Brenda (WRI Brasil)
- Mokonyama, Mathetha (CSIR)
- Moya, Jaime (PUC)
- Mulley, Corinne (USYD)
- Muñoz, Juan Carlos (PUC)
- Nolmark, Henrik (VREF)
- Peña, Elizabeth (PUC)
- Royle, David (Forest Coach Lines)
- Sagaris, Lake (PUC)
- Schmidt, Alejandro (PUC)
- Smith, Neil (Tower Transit)
- Stanley, John (USYD)
- Stone, Alastair (USYD)
- Venter, Christo (UP)
- Wilson, Nigel (MIT)
- Wong, Yale (USYD)
- Yen, Barbara (USYD)
- Zegras, Christopher (MIT)
- 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”
