RUG UVA Workshop

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Ruimte en Mobiliteit Meeting 18 June 2010

Present
Mendel, Luca, Andrew, Marco, Thomas,  Guowen, Els, Jan, Paul  and Wendy (minutes)
Roel (absent with apologies)

Agenda

• Short introductions
• Announcements
• Presentation (Andrew): Transition strategies for sustainable integrated transport in the Randstad
• Presentation (Jan): 'Densification' and infrastructure planning

Announcement

• Andrew will take over Els coordinating role for the coming year. Wendy will keep supporting with the website and whenever needed.
• Thomas has contact with Curtin and Melbourne, to build accessibility models, with aim to build one for polycentric region (OV-Randstad). Thomas arranging funds and Jan Scheuerer will be here in July but based out of Goudappel Coffeng. To ask for presentation opportunity. 
• Thomas asked by APPM to participate in group to write about accessibility in Randstad, dealing with planning process and improvements.
• Luca was also involved in Spoorzoneontwikkeling group, possible lobby platform for TOD in Netherlands. 
• Thomas doing research for railway development for North Holland, in contact with Paul and Wendy.
• Paul is organizing a workshop in Zaanstad for MRA and perhaps its good to join up efforts. City region has sensitivity towards spatial development. Rotterdam Blaak will be next workshop topic in September - trying to unravel the success factors and together with private stakeholders.
• Els is going to join a summer course on ex-ante method on evaluation process, followed by a conference in Aalborg, Denmark. Els to pass around information for the group on conference.
• Wendy will have an evaluation symposium in September for her research project and Leonie Janssen-Jansen will be her other supervisor. To add Leonie to join group.
• Andrew's research will probably  have JG (from political science) as supervisor as his focus will also be based on transition theory. JG's group is interested in linking transition to transport/mobility issues.
• Mendel received email from TU Delft, if theme group would like to collaborate on workshops with TU Delft/YA from AESOP/practitioners. Brainstorm & proposals are welcomed. 
• Martin de Jong is comparing land use planning and decision making (NL vs China) - role of culture in decision making (Institutional transplantation) in Delft at 15:30 on 29th June. 
• COST action funding approved. COST Project: cross country networking fund. Research will be linked and possible collaboration and publications. Build up for EU funding. Based from AESOP Transport Planning group for YA. Workshops will be held on current accessibility measures used to support land use planning. Partners: 10 countries, open to others now. Structure of workshop to be homogenous and use results for publication. 
• Post doc advertisement closed this week. All application will be vetted by Marco and Thomas. Appointment has to be soon and for 2 years. International candidate who can easily integrate, possibly participate in new proposals. 
• Application ongoing for NWO sustainability for cities with W. Salet and TU Eindhoven. 
• Kevin Chung - visiting researcher from John Forester has arrived. He will do something in Almere. 
• Possible post-doc from China, but financial issues. Similar topic to Guowen.
• Carey Curtis will spend sabbatical in 2010 here with group. Luca might join her in Perth for collaboration in 2011. Closest group to us in terms of topic and approach. 
• Many of the group will be in AESOP in Finland this July. Luca will chair transport track. 10 min presentation and 20 min discussion. Each session is chaired with moderator. There will be transport planning round table at event but possibly coupled with the Airport City excursion. Interesting papers should be put on blog. Luca can send Thomas program of track.
• World conference on Transport in Lisbon, Portugal. Andrew, Marco and Mendel. 
• CVS congress deadline. 

Ruimte en Mobiliteit Meeting 19 March 2010

Present
Roel, Mendel, Luca, Marco, Els, Jan  and Wendy (minutes)

Agenda

• Announcements
• Presentation (Wendy): Results from Interviews/Workshop NICIS KEI: Barriers for Transit Oriented Development in Netherlands
• Presentation (Els): Theoretical model over technocratic and communicative approach conflict.

Announcement

• 15 Apr Railforum Matchmaking - Stakeholders from rail transport (Rail to Tram, Public Organisation) looking for students who are interested and busy with their issues and topics. (http://www.railpedia.nl), good for networking and knowledge exchange.
• Bachelor thesis (topics: Tram 1 and Amsterdam Habour) needs supervision and to be judged in April.
• Planning voor Ruimte en Mobiliteit, min 70 students applied. Syllabus has been revolutionized according to criticism from students from the year before (literature list and assignments). Blog will be set up for students as discussion platform and dissemination point (able to leave discussion point, view multimedia bits and track participation). New form of education will be more interactive and students will be judged on new criteria as in module guidebook. Students will be guided with an existing project to make the educational process more concrete and tangible.
• Marco is promoted. He will begin in 1st April with his new research. 
• Contact with Programma Spoorzone Ontwikkeling from VROM. Updates will follow.
• Jan has contact with Vereiniging Deltametropool for the tool SprintStad (serious gaming). Looking together with Paul Chorus to see if it is feasible to make deliverable products. 
• Verkeer and vervoer congress in Aalborg in end August. PhD workshop in Denmark.
• COST application in Brussels (Marco & Cecilia from Portugal), to be used for networking and travel costs for research initiatives. Luca is formal chair for this application. 
• Sustainable cities group in UvA (inter/intra faculty, inter discipline), Luca is leading the Mobility cluster (research and education).  Similar initiative will be set up on national level, with Peter Nijkamp (NWO) leading discovery phase. Inter and trans discipline approach.  Research institutes showing trend of inter/trans-discipline tendencies.
• Bereikbaarheid Randstad (3e ronde) - 2.5 year for 2 postdocs position. TU Eindhoven submitting an application together with our group. 
• Restructuring of Bachelor education, chance to identify what is interesting for us. Grouping of certain courses or new educational forms. 
• AMIDSt is now AISSR, with some concrete changes for the PhD students. More formal steps and products will be required. Compulsory educational courses are missing for planning subjects. Discussion needed what theory and method courses are required. NETHUR can still be pursued. 

2nd October 2009 - Ruimte en Mobiliteit Meeting: Minutes and Presentation

The theme group concluded a successful first meeting to set up a structure for future discussions and meetings. See below for more details.

Agenda

11:30	Introduction
12:00	General Discussion
12:30	Lunch
12:45	Presentation (J. Soria Lara –  guest PhD)
13:00	Discussion: Reaction to JS Presentation
13:15	Readings Reflection / Questions

Aim of meetings to have regular and structured contact and exchanges within theme group to enhance research and educational coordination. Theme group might be level of focus in new organisational structure; with more autonomy, involved in both teaching and research. Future discussion points include educational matters and research. Meetings as forum for internal/external guests.

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Minutes (2nd October 2009)

Presentation: Mobility and environmental quality in metropolitan areas: The case of Granada by Julio Alberto Soria Lara. Guest PhD Candidate from University of Granada (Spain)