Welcome Address

- Michinari Hamaguchi, President of Nagoya University, Japan

Opening Address

- Werner Rothengatter, Ex-President of WCTRS, Professor Emeritus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Greetings

- Hikaru Kobayashi, Administrative Vice-Minister of Environment, Japan

Greetings

- Takashi Inagaki, Vice Governor of Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Scope of Symposium Topics

- Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Chair of WCTRS-SIG11 on Transport and Environment (Chair of Organizing Committee), Professor and Director, International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan

Recent Environmental Policies and Transportation Research Needs in Japan

– Motoyuki Suzuki, Chair of Central Environmental Council, Professor, the Open University of Japan, Japan

Results of the Poznan Conference and challenges for the post-Kyoto framework

- Wolfgang Schade, Manager, Business area transportation systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany

Equal CO2 Reduction Rates or Equal Marginal CO2 Mitigation Costs – fair and efficient contribution of the transport sector

- Ian Hodgson, Administrator, EU Commission

Transport, Energy and CO2: Moving toward Sustainability

- Pierpaolo Cazzola, Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Transformation Strategies towards Low-carbon Transport - Lessons and Innovations

–Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Professor and Director, International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan, Chair of WCTRS-SIG11 on Transport and Environment

Inter-modality and Co-modality as Lead Policies

- Hector G. Lopez-Ruiz, Researcher, and Yves Crozet, Professor, LET, University of Lyon II, France

"The Tokaido Shinkansen and Superconducting Maglev" - Contributing to a Low-Carbon Society -

- Toyonori Noda, Vice-President, Central Japan Railway Company, Japan

[Lead Policies for Land Use and Transport Systems: The Need for Integrated Strategies]

- Michael Wegener, Professor, Spiekerman & Wegener Urban and Regional Research, Germany (Contribution by paper only, no oral presentation)

Getting into the Right Lane for a Low Carbon Transport System in the EU

- Karst Geurs, Professor, Dutch Environmental Agency, The Netherlands

On Developments in Developing Countries for Developing Countries; Understanding the Realities of Developing Countries‘ Requisites for Energy/ Environment Favorable Transport Policies

- Ali Huzayyin, Professor, Cairo University, Egypt

Transport in Developing Countries – How to Get to a Sustainable Path

- Jamie Leather, Senior Transport Specialist, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Urban Spatial Strategy towards Low Carbon City

– Haixiao Pan, Professor, Tongji University, China

Transport and Energy – the Indian Perspective

- Sanjivi Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, The Energy Research Institute (TERI), Professor, TERI University, India

The Road from Copenhagen: Illustration of a new route for developing countries using the Transport/CO2 Link in Latin America

- Lee Schipper, Project Scientist, Global Metropolitan Studies, Univerity of California Berkeley, Senior Research Engineer, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford University, USA, Elizabeth Deakin, Professor, University of California Berkeley, USA and Carolyn McAndrews, University of California Berkeley, USA

CDM and the Problems for Applications in Asia

- Atsushi Fukuda, Professor, Nihon University, Japan

Greetings

- Satoshi Onishi, Vice Mayor of Nagoya City

Greetings

- Takuo Yamauchi, Director General, Chubu Economic Federation

Economic mechanisms for internalizing transport’s externalities

- Patrick Jochem, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Industrial Production, Fraunhofer Institute, and Werner Rothengatter, Professor Emeritus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Transport Sector Marginal Abatement Cost Curves in Computable General Equilibrium Model

– Hisayoshi Morisugi, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan

Regulation, Standard Setting and State Intervention

- Marco Ponti, Professor, Milan Polytechnic University, Italy

Pathway to Low Carbon Future: Is much of the Asia in an Advantageous Position to Low Carbon World?
- Shuzo Nishioka, NIES, Japan

A Low Carbon Transport System: How and to What Extent Can this Be Achieved? - Study of Transport Systems in a Low Carbon Society

- Jiro Hanyu, Chairman, Institution for Transport Policy Studies (ITPS), Yuki Tanaka, Director, International Affairs Office (IAO), Japan International Transport Institute (JITI), and Iwao Matsuoka, Researcher, IAO, JITI, ITPS, Japan

Bringing Transport into the Climate Change Negotiations: with a Focus on Financing

- Ko Sakamoto, Senior Consultant, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), UK

Financing Technology Transfer

- Reiner Koblo, Senior Sector Specialist, German Development Bank, Germany

Visioning and Backcasting on Transport and the Environment

- David Banister, Professor, University of Oxford, Director of the Transport Studies Unit, Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute, UK

BRT, bus and paratransit system for low carbonization of transport in Asia -- good practices and critical issues

– Fumihiko Nakamura, Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan

Automobile Technology towards Low Carbon Society

– Yoshihiko Masuda, Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation

Transport, Environment and Institutions: Why Good Science and Engineering Fail

– Louis S. Thompson, Principal, Thompson, Galenson and Associates, USA

- Coordinator: Werner Rothengatter, Professor Emeritus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

- Commentator: Katsutoshi Ota, Professor, Toyo University, Japan

- Commentator: Tae Oum, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

- Commentator: Hoshi Akihiko, Deputy Director, Environment Division, Road Transport Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

- Summarization: Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Professor and Director, International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan