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Where do you think you’re going…?

Thursday, June 25, 2009 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (GMT)

Newcastle Upon Tyne,

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Event Details

  • 25th June 2009 Newcastle upon Tyne

10:00am – 6pm

Newcastle University and Imperial College would like to invite you to participate in a different sort of Workshop to help shape future research into sustainable intelligent transport.
Person using Handheld Sat Nav Electric Vehicle being Re-charged Congestion Charging Camera

It will be sparky; it will be challenging; it will think the unthinkable – and it will be FREE with refreshments provided.
You’ll not want to miss it, will you?

- Will the internet and technology influence how we travel? Whether we travel at all?
- Can technology help mobility?
- How useful is “user-generated content”?
- How far can mobile internet and Web2.0 get you? – literally
- Where is transport research going?
- Did Beethoven have a food processor?

Come and listen to new thoughts on old problems; share with us what you think matters; show us what you’re up to; join in when people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to pose on transport and the internet; suggest the areas you think need investigation.

Proceedings will be live blogged and tweeted from the event; together with remote contributions. These will be forwarded to EPSRC as the outcome of the workshop and the SIMM final report.

If you’d like details about attending, exhibiting, making a short presentation or demonstrating a product or technology, or following the workshop online please contact Hannah Bryan: hannah.bryan@newcastle.ac.uk at Newcastle University ( 0191 222 6420 ).

Programme

 

The agenda for the day is below. Please think about what you want to hear, post comments and suggestions to the blog, and come armed with questions and bright ideas.

09:30:   Arrival and registration, coffee will be available

10:30:   Housekeeping – Hannah Bryan, Newcastle University

10:35:   Welcome to Hoults Yard – Charlie Hoult

10:40:   Introduction to the day – Phil Blythe, Newcastle University

10:45:   Introduction to SIMM - John Polak, Imperial College London 

10:50:   Live Blog and Tweets during the event – Justin Souter, Souter Consultancy

10:55:   Session 1 – Directions of Travel, Chair – Eric Sampson, ITS (UK)

Digital Transport – Nick Illsley, Chief Executive, Transport Direct

Digital Economy – James Burke, Deburca

How far can you go? The Twitchiker’s tale – Paul Smith

11:55:   Open debate on Session 1

12:25:   First review of activities on digital and analogue blogs

12:30:   Pyromaniacs’ lunch

13:15:   Session 2 – Building Blocks of the Digital Economy, Chair – Jennie Borg, Detica

This has been divided into 3 broad sessions, each speaker has 5 minutes to stun the audience, following which the audience can fire questions back.

Block 1: “Geet loadsa data” (Managing large datasets)

Freeflow Project – John Polak, Imperial College London

Transport Observatory – Margaret Bell, Newcastle University

Block 2: “Dee it yersel’ ” (User Generated Content)

Social Media - Mike Parker, Orangebus       

Word of Mouth Influences – Caroline Bartle, UWE

Maintaining Commercial Reputation Online – Helen Mathews, Nexus

Block 3: “Whorr we Gannin’?!” (Pedestrian Localisation, Navigation and Tracking)

Indoor/Outdoor navigation – Chris Kray, Culture Lab, Newcastle University

Vulnerable user tracking – Ray Sherrington, Digital Challenge, Sunderland City Council

14:30:   Highlights of activities on digital and analogue blogs

14:40:   Coffee

15:00:   Session 3 – Responses to Session 2

Privacy and identity – Conn Crawford, Sunderland City Council

Transport Futures – Mick Pierson, Central Government (IT and Transport)

Open discussion – all attendees

15:30:   Session 4 – Pre-aperitif Discussion

Closing remarks – The SIMM perspective from digital and anologue blog, John Polak, Imperial College London

Taking the Digital Economy forward – Newcastle’s Digital Economy Hub, Phil Blythe, Newcastle University

16:00:   Last session – Final views from the audience and Summing Up – Eric Sampson

16:30:   Booze and Banter

18:00:   Gannin’ ‘yem