The ESM’2010 (The 24th annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference) is the original international European conference concerned with state of the art technology in modelling and simulation. ESM’2010 aims to provide an overview of academic research in the field of computer simulation. A number of major tracks of simulation research are presented next to specific workshops, which capture the art and science of present-day simulation research.
ESM’2010 consists of four major parts. A part concerns itself with simulation methodology, another with simulation applications, then there are the workshops, the exhibition and last but not least the poster sessions for students.
Selected papers will appear in journals especially tailored to EUROSIS.
I will be attending and presenting two papers at this conference.
Here you can download the he ESM’2010 final programme in pdf format.
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I am currently busy with establishing a consortium to prepare a project proposal for the following FP7 call:
TPT.2011.2-3. Modelling of co-modality quick-wins: Roadmap towards comodality
Content and scope
Current socio-economic trends and challenges in various fields (climate change, oil and energy, pollution and health, decongestion of transport, population ageing, etc.) call for accelerated uptake of technological advances in the transport industry. This relates to transports modes considered individually, but even more importantly, to technical achievements in the field of inter/co-modal integration, particularly between high capacity and usually long-distance modes (road, railways, air, waterborne) with local/urban modes.
In order to quickly unlock the value of technological advances, joint business drivers and synergies must be the force behind their adoption by all the stakeholders in the transport chains. The purpose of this activity is hence to analyse, identify and model, from economic, managerial, operational and technological viewpoints, specific opportunities for inter/co-modal transport, both for passengers and goods, that show evident unaddressed needs, value add opportunities, or new business models, based on R&D achievements as well as on the analysis of socio-economic trends.
The activity should identify the major thresholds for inter/co-modal transport and present roadmaps to overcome these thresholds and that are endorsed by the different ETPs active in Transport. The roadmaps should point out and describe the required integration of R&D results and activities as well as policy options, so that the different stakeholders can materialize the identified quick-wins in concrete technology development and integration roadmaps and take the necessary actions to bring inter/co-modality further.
Expected impact
This research will contribute to new or improved services to customers (either passengers or SMEs and big enterprises) and to identify ways to improve transport efficiency, sustainability and costs.
Funding scheme: Collaborative Projects – small or medium-scale focused research projects; or Coordination and Support Actions aiming at supporting research activities
Note: Limits on the EU financial contribution apply. These are implemented strictly as formal eligibility criteria. You must refer to the call fiche for details of these limits
Travel is an essential part of everyday life and today most journeys are multimodal. It is the total travel experience that counts and integrated transport must reduce the inconvenience of transfers between modes. Most research and many publications on transport policy advocate sustainable transport, but the priority given to integration has been negligible. Yet integration is one of the most important means to advance sustainable transport and sustainability more generally.
While integrated transport systems are seen to be an ideal, there is a failure to make the transition from policy to practice. The authors argue that the achievement of sustainable transport is still a dream, as an integrated transport policy is a prerequisite for a sustainable transport system. It is only when the two concepts of sustainability and integration operate in the same direction and in a positive way that real progress can be made.
In this book, transportation experts from across the world have addressed the questions about what is integration, why is it so important and why is it so hard to achieve? The book provides an in-depth analysis of these issues and it aims to provide a better understanding of the subject, about what should be strived for, about what is realistic to expect, and about how to move forward towards a more integrated provision of transport infrastructure, services and management.
Selected Contents: 1. The Need for Integration in Transport Policy and Practice Section 1: The Main Issues in Integrated Transport 2. Integrated Transport Policy: A Conceptual Analysis 3. Planning For a Sustainable Travel: Integrating Spatial Planning and Transport 4. The Need for Integrated Institutions and Organisations in Transport Policy – the Case of Transport and Climate Change 5. Integrated-Transport Policy in Freight Transport 6.The Value of Reliability and its Relevance in Transport Networks 7. Appraisal of Integrated Transport Policies Section 2: Application of Integrated Transport Policy 8. Integrating Individual Travel Desires in Transport Planning: What is Too Far and What is Too Close? 9. Planning Walking Networks and Cycling Networks 10. The Role of ICT in Achieving Integrated-Transport Networks 11. Developing the Rail Network through Better Access to Railway Stations – the Need for Integration Section 3: Assessing the Potential Benefits of Integrated Transport Polices 12. Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Integrated Transport Policies and Schemes 13. A Decision Analysis Framework for Intermodal Transport: Evaluating Different Policy Measures to Stimulate the Market 14. Integrating the Railways – Key Assessment Issues 15. Assessing Iintermodal Re-Balance and Integration in Urban Transportation Planning: An Illustration on the Basis of a Sub-Lagoon Tube Plan for Venice 16. The Effects of Weather and Individual Characteristics on the Speed of Public Transport Trips: An Empirical Study Section 4: The Challenges in Achieving Integrated Transport at National, Regional and City Levels 17. Impediments to Integrative Transport Policies: Lessons from the Case of Modiin 18. Integrating Public Transport Management in France: How to Manage Gaps Between Mono-Scale Policies 19. Intermodalism in the U.S.: Issues and Prospects 20. The Pursuit of Integration: How Far and What Next?
About the Editors Moshe Givoni is a Senior Researcher at the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) which is part of the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) at Oxford University. He is also a Research Fellow at Wolfson College. Before joining Oxford he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam.
David Banister is Professor of Transport Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the Transport Studies Unit. He is also currently Director of the Environmental Change Institute in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Until 2006, he was Professor of Transport Planning at University College London.
ESM’2010, October 25-27, 2010, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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