Urban Transport: Can Countries in Transition Avoid the Mistakes Made by Western Countries?

来源:交通运输与物流学院 发布日期:2012-05-29 浏览次数:

活动/讲座时间:2012-05-30 下午15:30

活动/讲座地点:九里校区信息楼01213

活动/讲座嘉宾:VUKAN R. VUCHIC教授

嘉宾介绍:

Dr. Vuchic is Emeritus Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering and of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. In 1967 he founded the Transportation Systems Engineering program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also lectured at over 90 other universities and at many professional conferences. His research, focusing mostly on urban transportation systems, planning and policies, has been published in the “Transit Trilogy:” Transportation for Livable Cities (1999), Urban Transit Operations, Planning and Economics (2005), and Urban Transit Systems and Technology (2007). Several of these books have been translated into Japanese, Serbian, Russian, Chinese and Turkish languages. He has been consultant to US Department of Transportation, cities of Belgrade, Beijing, Lima, Naples, Perth, Philadelphia, Rome, Singapore and others.

In 1982 Vuchic became the first recipient of the "Dr. Friedrich Lehner Medal" in Germany. In 1990 he was awarded the University of Pennsylvania‘s UPS Foundation Chair in Transportation. He is a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of . the Russian Academy for Architecture and Construction Sciences.

主要内容:

An overview of several stages of transportation/city relationships will be followed by a review of transportation modes and their characteristics. Serious problems of traffic congestion and methods for achieving a balanced transportation system, particularly between private cars and public transportation, will be defined. Bus, rail and automated modes will be reviewed.

Valuable lessons from successes and mistakes will be described and illustrated by examples from many world cities and different countries. Great need for better understanding of the complex problems of urban transportation will be emphasized. The final focus will be on a review of methods for achieving more efficient and sustainable solutions - balanced intermodal transportation systems.