Agenda - Lectures and Speeches

Towards smarter urban mobility

09:30Opening of Registration and welcome coffee
10:30Welcome
Nicolas Doucet, Director ITS Sales, PTV, Germany
ITS for Smarter Urban Mobility
Thomas Schwerdtfeger, Member of the Board,
PTV, Germany
10:45Personal and Commercial Mobility in Mega-Cities
Franck Leveque, Vice President Growth Consulting, Frost&Sullivan, Germany
  • The top 20 mega-cities in 2025
  • Future mobility concepts
  • Main protagonists
11:15Urban Traffic Management in Düsseldorf – Status and Challenges
Heiko Böhme, Project Manager, Traffic Management City of Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Integrated strategy management for the conurbation of Düsseldorf
  • Strategy-conform routing
  • Model-based estimation of traffic state and forecast
11:45Coffee Break
12:15Maximobility through Multimodality in Denmark
Jørgen Sinding, Project Manager,
Rejseplanen A/S, Denmark
  • Integrating a public transport planner and car planner
  • Conciliating urban and national constraints to offer an homogeneous service throughout the country
  • Technical challenges and solutions
  • Results of user surveys
13:00Lunch
14:45Future ITS Developments in Europe
Hermann Meyer, CEO
ERTICO – ITS Europe, Belgium
  • ITS projects and initiatives
  • Future needs for stakeholder cooperation
  • European frameworks for ITS deployment
15:15Coffee Break
16:00Future Scenarios for Electric Vehicles
Michael Speh, Direction des Marques, Sales and Business Development Electric Vehicles
PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN, France
  • Electric Vehicles (EV) Scenario Europe
  • Intermodal Approach
  • PSA EV Strategy
16:30Urban and Suburban Mobility in North America
Mike Ostrom, CEO, Mygistics, USA
  • Facts, trends and challenges
  • Bridging the gap between public policies and consumer applications
  • Traffic, the big picture
17:00Closing Session
18:00Departure for the evening programme