PRT@LHR

Programme
Tuesday 21 April morning session: PRT at T5
Chair: Malcolm Buchanan, Director, Colin Buchanan
9.30am – 10.00am Tea / Coffee
10.00am – 10.15am Welcome / Introductions – Malcolm Buchanan, Director, Colin Buchanan
10.15am – 10.30am Keynote Address - Lord Soley of Hammersmith, Chairman of Future Heathrow
10.30am – 10.45am T5 & PRT – Mark Murphy, Operations Director T5, BAA
10.45am – 11.15am BAA’s business case for PRT – David Holdcroft, PRT Manager, and Hugh Fenn, Director of Retail Travel Services, BAA
11.15am – 12.00pm Development of the PRT concept and ULTra – Martin Lowson, Deputy Chairman, ATS Ltd
12.00pm – 12.20pm Commercial opportunities in the PRT industry – Nick Ford, Senior Consultant, Frost & Sullivan
12.20pm – 12.30pm The visits programme – how it works, what you will see - David Holdcroft, PRT Manager, BAA
12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Visit 1 — Bus Departs
Tuesday afternoon session: Development of ULTra and other PRT systems
Chair: David Holdcroft, PRT Manager, BAA
1.30pm – 1.50pm Architectural & Industrial Design for the Heathrow PRT – Michael Rodber, Jones Garrard Move Ltd & Peter Fennel, Architect, Gebler Tooth Ltd.
1.50pm – 2.10pm Heathrow Guideway Design – Tony Kerr, Director, ARUP
2.10pm – 2.30pm User centered design of ULTra for LHR - Karl Humphreys, Experience Designer and Momat Ltd and Gary Davis, MD, Gary Davis Associates
2.30pm – 2.50pm Preparing for Operations at London Heathrow - Phil Smith, Operations Director, ATS
2.50pm – 3.00pm Discussion / Questions
3.00pm – 3.30pm Tea / Coffee
3.30pm Visit 1 — Bus Returns
3.30pm – 4.00pm The Vectus PRT system - Jörgen Gustafsson, Technical Project Manager, Vectus
4.00pm – 4.30pm The "2 Get There" PRT system - Robbert Lohmann, Marketing and Sales Manager, 2 Get There
4.30pm – 5.00pm Taxi 2000 PRT system – TBC
Tuesday evening
6.30pm – 8.00pm Reception at Colin Buchanan London Office, 10 Eastbourne Terrace (direct connection by Heathrow Express from LHR)
Wednesday 22 April morning session 1 : Urban and regional roles of PRT
Chair: Martin Lowson, Deputy Chairman, ATS Ltd
9.30am – 9.50am The Economic Value of PRT - Henk van Zuylen, Delft University of Technology
9.50am – 10.10am PRT Plans in Swedish cities - Göran Tegnér, Transport Economist, WSP Analysis and Strategy
10.10am – 10.30am Emerging roles of PRT in the UK – Malcolm Buchanan, Director, Colin Buchanan
10.30am – 10.50am Emerging roles of PRT in Italy – Joerg Schweizer, Researcher, Universita di Bologna
10.50am – 11.00am Discussion / Questions
11.00am Visit 2 — Bus Departs
11.00pm – 11.30pm Tea / Coffee
Wednesday morning session 2: Implementation of PRT
Chair: Nick Ford, Independent Consultant
11.30am – 11.50am Daventry Implementation – Simon Bowers, Daventry District Council and David Jeffrey, Visiting Professor, University of Southampton
11.50pm – 12.10pm Design and operational issues in implementation - Ingmar Andreasson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
12.10pm – 12.30pm Pilot network design – John Hawthorne, Managing Consultant, Sinclair Knight Merz
12.30pm – 12.50pm Discussion / Questions
12.50pm – 1.45pm Lunch
1.00pm Visit 2 — Bus Returns
1.30pm Visit 3 — Bus Departs
Wednesday afternoon session 1: Developing PRT networks for urban areas
Chair: Tony Kerr, Director, ARUP
1.45pm – 2.10pm Urban Network Design Experience in Europe (the Anglo/Swedish angle) - Ingmar Andreasson, KTH, royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Richard Crappsley, Colin Buchanan
2.10pm – 2.40pm Social Acceptability of PRT - Paul Firmin, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
2.40pm – 3.00pm PRT networks as part of new developments - Nathan Koren, Project Studies Manager, ATS Ltd
3.00pm – 3.10pm Discussion
3.10pm – 3.30pm Tea / Coffee
3.30pm Visit 3 — Bus Returns
Wednesday afternoon session 2: . Acceptability of PRT tracks in urban areas and broader conclusions
3.30pm – 3.50pm Urban PRT Network Design in the US - Peter Muller, President, PRT Consulting
3.50pm – 4.10pm Introducing PRT guideway in UK urban areas – Jochen Rabe, ARUP
4.10pm – 4.30pm Key Messages on PRT from the CityMobil Project - Tony May, Research Professor in Transport Engineering, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
4.30pm – 4.50pm How good is the case for PRT outside airports? – Phil Bly, Independent Consultant
4.50pm – 5.00pm Discussion
Wednesday Evening
7.30pm – 10.30pm Conference dinner – Thames cruise, departs Westminster Pier
Thursday 23 April morning session: CityMobil
Chair: Tony May, Research Professor in Transport Engineering, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
9.30am – 9.50am The CityMobil project - Jan van Dijke, Senior Project ManagerTNO
9.50am – 10.10am The view of the European Commission on urban mobility research - Andras Siegler, Director of Transport Research, DG Research, European Commission
10.10am – 10.45am Advanced Technologies:
  • Cybercars - lMichel Parent, Programme Manager, INRIA
  • Advanced City Vehicles - Gianfranco Burzio, Project Manager, Centro Ricerche Fiat
  • Advanced buses - Juan Manuel Revuelta, Director General, Valencian Regional Representation to the EU
10.45am – 11.00am Discussion / Questions
11.00am Visit 4 — Bus Departs
Thursday morning session 2: CityMobil - Advanced Transport for the Urban Environment
Chair: Jan Van Dijke, Senior Project Manager, TNO
11.30am – 11.55am Deciding on and selecting an automated system - the City Application Manual - Tom Voge, Senior Consultant, TML
11.55am – 12.20pm Modelling and simulation - Tony May, Research Professor in Transport Engineering, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
12.20pm – 12.45pm Operational issues – integrating an automated system into the existing transport system - Antonio Marques, Director of New Technologies, ETRA
12.45pm – 1.00pm Question & answer session
1.00pm Visit 4 — Bus Returns
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm - 4.00pm CityMobil closed session