The conference will last three days and will be organized in 7 plenary sessions, 7 sub-plenary sessions and 11 workshops.

Plenary Sessions

1. Linkages of urban transport to climate change and air quality
2. What are the experiences and lessons learned in implementing cleaner transport in cities outside Latin America?
3. What are the experiences and lessons learned in implementing cleaner transport programs in Latin American cities?
4. Sustainable transport indicators and assessment methodologies
5. Financial sustainability and financial schemes for a cleaner urban transport in Latin America
6. Roundtable: Sustainable transport marketing and decision making
7. Presentation and discussion of outputs from workshops

Sub-plenary sessions

1. How to enhance integrated sustainable public transport systems
2. How to improve land use and transport planning coordination?
3. How to reduce emissions in existing public transport fleets by enhancing technology and fuel options?
4. Travel demand management
5. Technologies and fuels options for reducing emissions in new public transport vehicles
6. Emission baselines and measurement of cost-effectiveness
7. Cultural, political and socio economical factors that hinder sustainable transport

Workshops

1.1 Instruments for enhancing public transport system operation and management
2.1 Instruments for enhancing transport and land use coordination
3.1 Experiences, requirements an benefits of using natural gas in existing public fleets
3.2 Experiences, requirements an benefits of using biofuels in Existing Public fleets
3.3 Inspection and maintenance and fuel efficiency programs in Latin American Cities
4.1 Managing urban mobility in a sustainable way
5.1 Emission standards and harmonization of fuel specifications, cleaner technologies, low sulfer
and ultra low sulfur fuels
5.2 Electrical traction in urban transportation
6.1 Air quality monitoring and indicators.
6.2 Emission Inventories as tools for identifying and track progress
6.3 Air quality and traffic impacts related to aiport

Program below (pdf) updated on 07/20/07.

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