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06 DEC 2021 (MON) | 13:00-14:00pm HK time (16:00-17:00pm Melbourne time)

    Placemaking Sandbox for Transport Practitioners

    This seminar will be via ZOOM only.


    SPEAKER:

    Dr Iderlina Mateo-Babiano Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne


    DATE & TIME:

    December 6 (Monday) 13:00-14:00pm HK time (16:00-17:00pm Melbourne time)


    ABSTRACT:

    Cities are changing very rapidly. Vibrant public spaces make for inclusive, engaging and resilient cities. Strategies and methods traditionally implemented to better manage public spaces, including our public transport environments, may no longer be appropriate to address these unpredictable transformations. In this presentation, I will introduce the Placemaking Sandbox program as a way of fostering a greater understanding of “placemaking” within and outside of transport environments --- the walking, waiting and riding environments --- and the benefit of providing a “sandbox” environment to design and test council-supported, community-led initiatives before and as they are implemented in our cities and communities.


    ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

    Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. She is also Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion. An architect, urban planner and transport planner by training, she teaches Urban Design and Place Making for The Built Environment. Her research is concerned with improving our understanding of how people interact with place, creating unique challenges and opportunities for positive place-based change. She has also advanced a significant body of knowledge in streets as places, active transport, gender and transport, with theory and policy implications within the Australasian setting.


    HOST:

    Professor Becky P.Y. Loo, Director, Institute of Transport Studies


    ORGANIZER:

    Institute of Transport Studies, The University of Hong Kong


    REGISTRATION:

    OR

    Email to hkits@hku.hk

    [CALL FOR PAPERS] HK-Swiss Symposium on Future Cities (16th – 17th May 2022)

      This is to invite you to submit high-quality research papers for the HK-Swiss Symposium on Future Cities to be held online and in-person (circumstances permitting) in Hong Kong and the Switzerland in parallel on 16th – 17th May, 2022. In particular, the event will take place concurrently in Hong Kong and the Switzerland in the afternoon of 16th May, 2022 to allow real-time interactions of the speakers and audience in both places.

      PhD students, early career researchers, industry practitioners, and senior researchers working on all topics related to future cities are strongly encouraged to participate and network in this event. The scope of this symposium is wide-ranging, including but not limited to:

      1. Autonomous vehicles

      2. Global warming and climate mitigation

      3. Behavioural changes and new urban form under COVID-19 challenges

      4. Big data computing and communications

      5. Shared mobility and mobility-as-a-service

      6. Internet of things and multi-sensor data fusion

      7. Public health

      8. Urban infrastructure

      Authors are hereby invited to submit the list of following information and document(s) by email to the Institute of Transport Studies (hkits@hku.hk) on or before 27th September, 2021, 23:59 (HKT).

      1. Paper title, author(s) and affiliations

      2. Presenter’s name and contact email

      3. Full abstract (500 – 800 words)

      The language of this symposium is English. Selected papers may be invited for expansion/revision and further peer reviews for inclusion in Special Issues under preparation. More details will be announced in due course.

      The registration fee is HK800 / CHF80 for physical attendance; and HKD200 / CHF20 for online attendance. Special support and a prize may be given to one PhD student based in Hong Kong to join the event at ETH Zurich (circumstances allowing).

      Enquiries: hkits@hku.hk


      26 MAY 2021 (WED) | 20:00-21:30

        Transportation Responses to the COVID-19:

        a dialogue between the East and the West

        This seminar will be held on ZOOM only.




        SPEAKERS:

        PROFESSOR PATRICIA MOKHTARIAN, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

        Patricia Mokhtarian is the Susan and Christopher Pappas Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in the study of travel behavior for 40+ years. She is a past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, and a National Associate of the US National Academies.


        PROFESSOR SUGIE LEE, Hanyang University, South Korea

        Dr. Sugie Lee is a professor at the Department of Urban Planning & Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include urban form, walkability, urban design, smart mobility, and spatial analysis of urban big data.


        DATE & TIME:

        26 May 2021 (Wednesday) 8:00 – 9:30 pm (HKT) / 12:00 – 1:30 pm (GMT) / 8:00 – 9:30 am (EDT)


        MODERATORS:

        DR. JIANGPING ZHOU

        Chairperson of Transport Policy Committee, Institute of Transport Studies


        DR. YONGSUNG LEE

        Deputy Chairperson of Transport Policy Committee, Institute of Transport Studies


        REGISTRATION:

        Please register by email to hkits@hku.hk before noon on 26 May 2021. Confirmation emails with ZOOM link will be sent to participants in due course.

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