Events

MOVING MINDS: The Next Transportation Infrastructure

November 9 - 12, 2009
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This November, SMART's Sustainable Urban Mobility & Accessibility Summit is back by popular demand at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Moving Minds: The Next Transportation Infrastructure will bring researchers together with business leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers from around the world.

This year's summit will give special attention to: "Moving Minds" -- understanding the cultural, psychological, and aspirational underpinnings of our relationship to transportation (for both users and leaders), and responding with innovative systems, policies, and business models that address these dimensions sustainability, equitably, and compellingly, including:

New policy frameworks and research directions for the next (integrated) transportation infrastructure,
New business and employment opportunities related to the emerging global New Mobility industry,
"Resilience" - designing and operating integrated transportation/communication systems with capacities for transformational learning, adaptation and creative renewal when confronted by crisis, surprise, stress and trauma,
Innovative Capacity Building - developing and sharing the knowledge and skills to address the growing global challenges and opportunities of New Mobility / sustainable transportation in urban regions.

The summit aims to build on the invaluable wisdom and experience of its participants, and on SMART's ongoing work to understand and accelerate development and implementation of sustainable, systems-based solutions to mobility and accessibility in global urban regions. Its aims are:

to share new knowledge and experience in piloting and implementing innovative, integrative sustainable urban mobility and accessibility in urban regions around the world
to share conceptual and theoretical foundations, research, and methodologies related to implementing sustainable urban transportation
to build on an evolving collaborative research network to study and support sustainable transportation integration and implementation
to build on a collaborative industry network (a collaboratory, or "link tank") to support and accelerate private sector innovation and new business development related to New Mobility (sustainable urban transportation).