Following the 3rd Regional EST Forum being held in Singapore during March 17-19 2008, GTZ and LTA Academy (supported by UNCRD, and as part of the SUMA project) will jointly organize a 2-day training course on Travel Demand Management (TDM) and related measures in Singapore on 19-20 March, 2008. The event will be hosted by LTA Academy of Singapore. The training will cover various TDM measures such as congestion pricing, parking schemes, fuel pricing, taxes and charges (vehicle ownership and registration management), repricing mobility services, physical restraint measures, land use measures and public transport complementary measures. Resource persons for the course will include Mr Michael Replogle (Environmental Defense, USA), Prof Gopinath Menon (Singapore), Mr Manfred Breithaupt (GTZ, Germany), Mr Chow Kuang Loh (LTA Academy, Singapore) and Prof. Paul Barter (NUS Singapore). There will be half day tour through Singapore’s TDM and public transport facilities on 19 March 2008 morning as a part of Regional EST Forum to which the participation is free of charge. Expected participants to the course are policymakers, planners and engineers from Asian cities or other interested parties. There are only 35 vacancies for the course, which will be filled up as registrations are received.

The registration deadline is 28 Feb 2008.

Course details are posted and updated in http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1058/1/lang,uk/ . If further information is required, please email sutp[at]sutp.org

Please visit http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1058/1/lang,uk/ for full information on program and other details of this course. Please register by sending an email with your contact details (full name, position, nationality, phone number, email) to carlos.pardo[at]sutp.org copied to santhosh.kodukula[at]sutp.org

(Important note for the participants of the 3rd Regional EST Forum: No financial support is available from the organizers to cover the additional day/s stay in Singapore to participate in this training course. Therefore the Forum participants, who wish to participate in this additional activity, should bear the extra cost by themselves)