International Speakers and Panelists (Profiles in progress)
The Kaohsiung Task Force is the interdisciplinary expert team behind the conference, including the distinguished international speakers, contributors, lead panelists, and those directly involved in the organization of the event Each of these key players is identified by a short bio note and picture so that you will recognize them immediately when you come to Kaohsiung. Like sharing, Kaohsiung 2010 is intended to be a personal experience.
Paul Barter. National University of Singapore. Singapore
Dr Paul Barter is an Assistant Professor in the LKY School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches on infrastructure policy, urban policy and transport policy. His published research has focused on various dimensions of the interactions between urban transport policy and urban policy more widely. Geographically the work has focused on eastern Asia with a particular focus on Malaysia and Singapore (including their cross-border transport). His recent and current research focuses on innovation in transport demand management and the contested fundamental priorities of urban transport policy. Paul is one of the founders and gatekeepers at theSustran Global South forum, and author of 'topical blog' on urban transport in Asia or for Asia:
Reinventing Urban Transport
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Enrico Bonfatti, Managing Editor, Nuova Mobilitą, Bergamo Italy
As a long time activist and close observer of transport and environment conditions in his home city Bergamo, and more generally in Italy, Enrico came to realize that good ideas were not circulating well in Italy, not only concerning concepts and projects taking place in other parts of the world but even on leading edge developments in Italy itself. His professional training is in the health field, which brought him early to the idea of healthy transport, namely bicycles, public transport and . . . shoes. As editor of Nuova Mobilitą, the only Italian language newspaper solely devoted to sustainable and healthy transport, he has created a network of support for all working on challenging issues of sustainable transport throughout Italy. As a transport activist and reporter, he follows closely share/transport projects in Italy and Europe. Enrico will be leading the session looking into the possible creation of a similar publication in the Chinese language, drawing on the lessons learned with Nuova Mobilitą and World Streets. --> [more]
Eric Britton, Share Transport Program Chairman, Paris, France.
Managing Director of EcoPlan International, an independent advisory group in Paris specializing in providing counsel for government and business on policy and decision issues involving social-technical innovation and sustainable development. He is founder of the New Mobility Partnerships (1988), a founding editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice (1995) and editor of the international sustainable cities journal World Streets (2008). Eric's work has concentrated increasingly on the vital transport/environment link, and he has concluded that the most powerful means to achieve better and more sustainable transport is to master the fine art of sharing. Eric serves Kaohsiung 2010 with Jason Chang as Program Co-Chairs, with responsibility for program content, website development, overall coordination, international outreach, and the Future Leaders project. He is betting on youth to do better than we have. (And they better had.) -->. [More]
Charina is an environmental researcher, a writer and a cycling advocate who is working for sustainable urban transport in Kathmandu, Nepal. She is currently associated with the Clean Air Initiatives for Asian Cities, an organization that is active in 8 country networks and over 170 organizational members to promote and demonstrate innovative ways to improve the air quality in Asian cities through partnerships and sharing experiences. Charina currently leads the Walkability Index Survey in Kathmandu to promote improvements in pedestrianization infrastructures and services. She is also active in developing mass education, awareness and media campaign related to Air Quality Management issues in Nepal through the Clean Air Network Nepal. She is participating in Kaohsiung 2010 as one of our invited Future Leaders/Young Researchers from across Asia.
Dorothy Chan Yuen Tak Fai, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong
Dr. Dorothy Chan is Deputy Director, School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong and Head of Centre for Logistics & Transport. A fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, she chaired the Membership & Education Committee of the International Council for seven years. She is Fellow of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, the University of Hong Kong. She is engaged in the education field and research topics on China and overseas transport projects. She was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a Member of the Advisory Council on Environment in 2007. The Council is to keep under review the state of the environment in Hong Kong; and advise the Government, through the Secretary for the Environment, on appropriate measures which might be taken to combat pollution of all kinds, and to protect and sustain the environment. --> [more]
Hsin-Wen Chang, Chung-Hua University, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan.
Dr. Hsin-Wen Chang is an Associate Professor in College of Tourism, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan, and the Head of Department of Leisure and Recreation Planning and Management. Chang has been engaged for many years in researching tourism development and especially in bicycles as a mean of transportation and tourism. She has publications in a variety of journals including Environment and Planning, Journal of Transportation Research Record, etc. She is also involved in consulting and planning activities for both central and local governments in tourism, especially recreational bike routes choice, bicycle facilities design, and investment evaluation. Dr. Chang established the first Smart Public Bike System (PBS) in university campus in Taiwan. She is a member at the Committee on Bicycle Transportation of Transportation Research Board in the USA from 2009~2012, and will be a speaker in the Public Bike master class session III on the topic of "Feasibility study on Public Bike Development in Taiwan Communities", and a panelist in the session looking at the broader behavioral aspects and lessons of share/transport (Session VII). --> [More]
Jason S. K. Chang. Chairman of Asian Programme, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor of Civil Engineering in National Taiwan University, and Visiting Professor of the China Academy of Transport Sciences in Beijing. He has served as Executive Director of Transportation Institute in Taiwan, Chair of ITS Asia Pacific Forum, and Scientific Committee Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, among others. Advisor to the Mayor and Taipei City Government since 1994, Dr. Chang has on numerous occasions served as advisor for promotion of sustainable urban and transportation development to international institutes and NGOs. In April 2006, he created a program to train representatives from more than 80 cities for the first Car Free Day activities in China. He served as Principal Investigator to the program "Green Transport for Chinese Cities" from 2000 to 2003, coordinating demonstration projects in more than fifteen cities. He is now hard at work on and widely sharing his green transport theory of BBMW (Bike + Bus + Metro + Walk) in many cities across Asia. Jason is a member of the Executive Committee--> [More]
Ms. Chen is the mayor of Kaohsiung. She previously served as Director of East Asia Institute for Human Rights & President of Taiwan Association for Human Rights, was Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs between 2000 and 2005, and was one of the eighteen founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In 2006, she won the Kaohsiung mayoral elections and became the city's first elected female mayor. In order to develop Kaohsiung City as a livable and sustainable city, Mayor Chen has adopted the policy of linking mainline and shuttle buses for the Kaohsiung MRT and the High Speed Rail, purchasing new buses and weeding out old ones, adjusting bus routes, and establishing a public bicycle traffic network. She has been a strong supporter of the city's widely acclaimed annual Car Free Day celebration. In July of this year, Mayor Chen was awarded the first ranking in Taiwan's 2010 Chief Executive Satisfaction Survey.
Lewis Chen. Developing carsharing in Asia. Singapore.
Lewis Chen has been active in promoting the concept of carsharing in Asia. He became the General Manager for NTUC Income Car Co-Op in 2002. He grew the business from 17 locations to 77 with nearly 200 cars in 3 years and at same time maintained a healthy bottom line to build a viable service. He also helped to lead the growth of the Singapore carsharing market together with 3 other carsharing operators where the membership has grown by 5 times from 2002 to 2005. He is now the General Manager of INVERS Asia, where he is helping interested parties in Asian cities to setup and introduce car-sharing service to their community. He is now working on carsharing projects in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. From experience the road ahead can be challenging but it can be both fulfilling and rewarding. He believes in sharing as it helps to foster better resource utilisation and it empowers the society to build sustainable growth. --> [more]
Echo Cheng, President, City Image. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The CEO of City Image, Echo Cheng, and her staff have been engaged in improving Kaohsiung city's image for many years. Their experience and their successes in this field cover a wide range. Some of the recent larger City Image events include the International Summit of Waterfront Cities, Worlds Game Kaohsiung Pre-event, and the World Games First Anniversary. City Image insists on setting a high professional standard for the benefit of the city we love in order to create things worthy of recording and remembering. The City Image team is responsible for local management and support services for the 2010 conference. --> more
Ali Clabburn, Founder Managing Director of liftshare, Social Entrepreneur, UK
Ali has spent the last 10 years dedicated to helping communities to travel more sustainably.
In 1998 whilst in his final year at University, 2 weeks before Google was born, he set up liftshare.com - a clever website which helps people find others travelling the same way as them so they can share their journey. What started in a university bedsit has grown steadily and now he and his team of 20 run the UK's national network of over 600 liftshare schemes for communities and businesses. Membership hit 300,000 in 2009. Liftshare currently saves 40,000 car journeys a day. He is sure that if we make better use of what we have by sharing then we can make huge reductions in the re-sources we need.
Ali and his team have been awarded the Queen's Award for Innovation through Technology, Business Commitment to the Environment Award 2007, Business in the Community National Award for Excellence, Essence of the Entrepreneur Award and the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Katherine Freund. Independent Transportation Network, USA
Founder of the Independent Transportation Network (ITN), and founder and President of ITNAmerica, Katherine has an MA in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a BA in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, as a National Transit Institute Fellow and for nine years on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors. She Chairs TRB's Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors, and sits on the TRB Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons. Katherine received the 2006 Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, a 2006 award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas from the Social Enterprise Alliance, the 2004 Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good. In 2009 Katherine was named as an AARP Inspire Award Honoree. --> [more]
Michael Glotz-Richter. Senior manager: Sustainable Mobility. Breman, Germany
Michael Glotz-Richter is senior project manager for 'sustainable mobility' for the City of Bremen - responsible for the involvement in International pilot projects on sustainable transport and environmentally friendly mobility. Key objectives of all these projects are the integration of lifestyle issues and urban development with transport issues. Car-Sharing is an important element of many projects - as in the European moses-project and the ongoing momo-project - both coordinated by Michael.
With these project activities, Bremen became a world-wide recognized city for sustainable transport strategies - especially around Car-Sharing. Bremen is one of three selected showcases of sustainable mobility to be presented on the World Exhibition 2010 in Shanghai - which has with the theme "Better Cities - Better Life" the focus on sustainable urban development.
Michael lectures at the Bremen University of Applied Science and is involved in several international networks on sustainable mobility. --> [more]
Tan Hochen. Chairman, Taiwan Ecological Engineering Development Foundation. Taiwan.
Tan Hochen served as the Director General of Taipei City Department of Transportation, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taiwan as well as the Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom. Mr. Hochen has hands-on experiences on both transportation consulting and policy-making, and he was the major advocate of many human-oriented facilities in Taipei, such as Bike Lanes, Bus Rapid Transit and Mass Rapid Transit. Mr. Hochen, is now devoted on promoting ecological engineering with focus on sustainability.
Mark Hsiao. Vice president. Infoexplorer Co. Taiwan.
Mark Hsiao is the vice president of Infoexplorer Co. Infoexplorer is a leading system integration company specialized in ITS area. For the past 20 years, Mark Hsiao has been engaged with many large-scale ITS projects in Taiwan, such as ATMS of Taipei city, Taoyuan county and national freeway network, APTS of Highway Bureau, and ICT applications research. By using advanced information and communication technologies, these systems significantly improve the efficiency of traffic operation and energy consumption.
Susan Lin, Project Adminstration/Media. Taipei, Taiwan
Susan Lin is President of Mega Trans International Corporation. Previously she served as Deputy Director of the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum and prior to that was a veteran business news reporter and newspaper editor for the Commercial Times and national desk editor for the Independence Morning/Evening Post in Taipei, where she was a particularly influential press reporter looking at the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Today, besides running Mega Trans, she also volunteers as Advisor to the Motorcycle Safety Association of Taiwan. Susan hopes to bring Carsharing to Taiwan in the near future. She is serving as Senior Project Associate for both international and national coordination, and as advisor for media relations and communications for the conference.
Tai-hua Lin, Advisor to Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan
Miss Lin is currently one of the advisors to Kaohsiung City Government. She is a Ph.D candidate in Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University. She holds a master degree in Mass Communication from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and obtained her certificate in German Language Teaching and Research from University of Kassel, Germany. Lin previously served as the Legislator of 5th & 6th sessions in Legislative Yuan, the 8th & 9th terms national party representative in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Minister of National Youth Commission in Executive Yuan, and Committee Member of the 14th Central Advisory Council in DPP. In order to develop Fengshan as a livable and sustainable city in Kaohsiung, Lin has Impelled the policy of Fengshan railroad underground and promoted the whole development of Fengshan metropolis. She will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session IV on DRTS and Taxi/Small Bus Sharing.
Shyh-fang Liu, Advisor to Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan
Ms. Lin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Tamkang University and M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University. She was Chairperson of Research, Development and Evaluation Commission in Kaohsiung City Government, and Managing Director of The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung Organizing Committee between 2008 and 2010. She has served as Deputy Secretary General of National Security Council, Deputy Secretary General in Office of the President, Secretary General in Executive Yuan, Legislator of 5th session in Legislative Yuan, and Director of Environmental Protection Department in Taipei City Government. Engaged in promotion of environmental protection policies and making Kaohsiung a sustainable city, Liu is International Affairs Advisory Counselor of Democratic Progressive Party, Visiting Fellow of CNAPS program in Brookings Institution, and President of Cross-Straits Study Association (CSSA). She will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session II on Ridesharing.
Rory McMullan, Sustainable Transport activist, Taiwan/UK
The requirements in UK planning legislation to restrict parking allocation and encourage staff to travel sustainably to work, mean there are thousands of EST plans in place. Rory provides training and advice to professionals working in the workplace travel plan and travel behavior change fields. He currently serves on the steering committee for several voluntary organizations including; Local Government Technical Advisors Group Transport Committee, Carfree UK, and is European Mobility Week Coordinator for the UK.
Previously he worked in marketing roles in the bicycle business, and was based in Taiwan, global home of the bicycle industry, for seven years, where he also organized car free events.
Rory sees sharing as a common element of many sustainable travel campaigns, be it information, space, or vehicles. Rory is assisting Kaohsiung conference as Project Administrator, as well as leading the working group on Travel behavior/ Employer Shared Transport (EST) and the key contact for the Young Researchers program.
Paul Minett, Co-Founder and CEO, Trip Convergence Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Paul is co-founder of Trip Convergence Ltd, and co-inventor of flexible carpooling. Invented
without knowledge of the slug-lines, flexible carpooling can best be described as a formalisation of that unique method of carpool formation found in Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area (also known as "casual carpooling"). Arguing that for more carpooling we need meeting places rather than databases, Mr. Minett has been making steady progress towards testing of this alternative mode. A recent report by the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center estimated the energy saving potential and explored barriers to implementation. He is currently carrying out a feasibility study of flexible carpooling to transit stations in Seattle WA. The system of express carpooling will be launched under the brand name Raspberry Rideshare, and the service will be called the Raspberry Express. --> [more]
Dinesh Mohan, mobility and safety of people outside cars, New Delhi, India
Dinesh Mohan is Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety and Co-ordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, followed by a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Delaware and then a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan. He started his research career working on mechanical properties of human aortic tissue. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car he is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people's right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. Recipient of: Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award. He will be joining the conference by a video link. --> [more]
Takayuki Morikawa, Professor, Center for Sustainable Transport, Nagoya, Japan
Takayuki Morikawa is a professor and program leader for the Land Infrastructure and Transportation Management of the International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University. His fields of international expertise covers transportation systems analysis, travel behavior analysis, and environmentally sustainable transport. After completing a graduate program in the Dept. of Transportation Engineering of Kyoto University, (Master of Engineering), he went on to earn a PhD in the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Civil Engineering. More - http://www.trans.civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~morikawa/morikawa-e.htm
Jason Ni is originally from Taiwan. He obtained a bachelor degree from Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University (1998) and served in the Engineering Army (1998 ~ 2000). He holds Master degrees in Transportation Engineering and City Planning from University of California Berkeley (2003), and a Ph.D. in Transportation Technology and Policy from University of California Davis (2008). His dissertation is on the Motorization and Vehicle Purchase Behavior in China. Jason worked as a Transportation Planner/Engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff, USA (2007~2010), and interned with Metropolitan Transportation Commission (2003), City of San Leandro (2004), and Dowling Associates, Inc. (2005). He also worked as Graduate Student Researcher at University of California Transportation Center (UC Berkeley, 2001 ~ 2003).
CarlosFelipe Pardo. Urban transport strategies. Bogota Colombia
CarlosFelipe Pardo is a Colombian psychologist with an MSc in Contemporary Urbanism from the London School of Economics. He has worked in urban transport issues in Asia and Latin America since 2002 in work that has involved organizational, advocacy and policy-related activities. His work has also included the delivery of training courses on sustainable transport topics, editing and writing various chapters and books on these topics. He is currently Country Director for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) in Colombia. Previously he worked with a foundation in Bogotį as mobility coordinator and coordinated the GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project in Asia and Latin America. He will be one of our lead speakers in Session VII (Behavior) and IX (Conclusions, Recommendations, Next Steps, 2011).
David Ta-Wei Poo. Program Director. Banciao City, Taiwan
David Poo is Chairman of Mega Trans International Corporation, a company founded to create transit oriented development (TOD) projects. David has worked extensively in the Greater China region and Asia as a transport consultant. He is better known in Taiwan as the former Director General of Taipei's Department of Transportation, where he initiated a network of exclusive bus lanes that greatly alleviated travel congestion in Taipei some 15 years ago. A life-long proponent for pedestrian and transit priority in our cities, David continues to work on bringing sustainable transport concepts to the attention of city leaders and planning and engineering professionals. As a firm believer of creating win-win solutions, he is also working on the creation of business models that will allow for-profit businesses to have greater participation in sustainable transport development.
Bradley Schroeder received a BA in Environmental Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After university, he joined the Peace Corps and was stationed to Ghana where he did community outreach in the field of water and sanitation. Bradley was hired by ITDP to be the Program Manager for Ghana office, and later was promoted to Cape Town as California Bike Senior Project Director. While in Cape Town, Bradley received his MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix. He is a project manager who has worked on developing bicycle supply chain networks to various African countries, creating and certifying a national bicycle mechanic training program in South Africa, documenting and presenting best practices of bicycle sharing (public bike) globally but with an Asian focus and on the implementation of a public bike sharing program in Guangzhou, China.
Yu-tin Tu. Project Supervisor, City Image. Kaohsiung Taiwan
Yu-tin Tu is the Supervisor for the project at City Image. The City Image team is responsible for local management and support services for the 2010 conference. She majored in Mass Communication at university. Because of her love her hometown Kaohsiung, she decided to move from Taipei and back to Kaohsiung four years ago. Now she has joined the work to improve Kaohsiung city's image. She is responsible for setting Chinese website, registration etc. for the 2010 conference.
Kent K. T. Wang. Director General, Transportation Bureau. Kaohsiung Taiwan
Dr. Wang is Director General of Kaohsiung Transportation Bureau since 2007, leading operational reform policies to improve the utilization rate of Kaohsiung public transit, and reduce the growth of private transport and greenhouse gas emissions, the most important environmental and traffic issues in Kaohsiung. Kent has more than 20 years of experience in transportation field, specializing in traffic engineering & control, intelligent transportation system, public transit management, and is also a registered traffic engineer in Taiwan. He has served as Executive Director of Chinese Institute of Transportation (CIT), Director of Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan (ITS), Director of Taipei Society for Traffic Society (TSTS), Founding Director of Taipei Traffic Engineering Association, and Committee Member of the Taipei County Economic Strategy Council. Dr. Wang is serving as one of the hosts for the conference and associated events of Kaohsiung 2010.
Jih-hwa Wu. Public Affairs Management Institute. Taiwan
Dr. Wu is a professor of Public Affairs Management Institute in National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. He is an adviser of Kaohsiung County Government since 2001. In the past ten years, Professor Wu has been invited as Director of Association of Local Development, Committee member of Kaohsiung City and Harbor Construction, Committee member of Regional Planning Commission, Ministry of Interior, Committee member of Pingtung County Urban Planning Commission, Committee member of Tainan City Urban Planning Commission, Committee member of Ministry of Examination, Associate Chairperson of Kaohsiung Urban Planning Commission, Associate Chairperson of Kaohsiung City Sustainable Development Network, Adviser of Industrial Technology Research Institute. Dr. Wu's research focuses on Urban & Regional Economics / Policy Analysis, & Multicriteria Decision Analysis. He will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session VI on Street/sharing
Hua Zhang is a Ph.D candidate of Lanzhou University, China. While a doctoral candidate, she received a variety of awards, including the First Rank Scholarship of Lanzhou University, the National Second Class Scholarship of China, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship. She performed a two-year survey on informal car/sharing in Beijing, China from 2005 to 2007, and published some papers on this topic. She conducted research as a visiting Doctoral student in the Sustainable Transportation Research Center (TSRC) in University of California, Berkeley from 2008 to September 2010. Her research at TSRC focuses primarily on bike/sharing all over the world, especially attention was given to the world's biggest bike/sharing system in Hangzhou, China. She will be participating in our Future Leaders/Young Scholars program, and will be making contributions in the car/share and bike/share sessions.
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close observer of transport and environment conditions in his home city Bergamo, and more generally in Italy, Enrico came to realize that good ideas were not circulating well in Italy, not only concerning concepts and projects taking place in other parts of the world but even on leading edge developments in Italy itself. His professional training is in the health field, which brought him early to the idea of healthy transport, namely bicycles, public transport and . . . shoes. As editor of Nuova Mobilitą, the only Italian language newspaper solely devoted to sustainable and healthy transport, he has created a network of support for all working on challenging issues of sustainable transport throughout Italy. As a transport activist and reporter, he follows closely share/transport projects in Italy and Europe. Enrico will be leading the session looking into the possible creation of a similar publication in the Chinese language, drawing on the lessons learned with Nuova Mobilitą and World Streets. --> [
government and business on policy and decision issues involving social-technical innovation and sustainable development. He is founder of the 
Kathmandu, Nepal. She is currently associated with the Clean Air Initiatives for Asian Cities, an organization that is active in 8 country networks and over 170 organizational members to promote and demonstrate innovative ways to improve the air quality in Asian cities through partnerships and sharing experiences. Charina currently leads the Walkability Index Survey in Kathmandu to promote improvements in pedestrianization infrastructures and services. She is also active in developing mass education, awareness and media campaign related to Air Quality Management issues in Nepal through the Clean Air Network Nepal. She is participating in Kaohsiung 2010 as one of our invited Future Leaders/Young Researchers from across Asia.
Logistics & Transport. A fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, she chaired the Membership & Education Committee of the International Council for seven years. She is Fellow of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, the University of Hong Kong. She is engaged in the education field and research topics on China and overseas transport projects. She was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a Member of the Advisory Council on Environment in 2007. The Council is to keep under review the state of the environment in Hong Kong; and advise the Government, through the Secretary for the Environment, on appropriate measures which might be taken to combat pollution of all kinds, and to protect and sustain the environment. --> [
Management. Chang has been engaged for many years in researching tourism development and especially in bicycles as a mean of transportation and tourism. She has publications in a variety of journals including Environment and Planning, Journal of Transportation Research Record, etc. She is also involved in consulting and planning activities for both central and local governments in tourism, especially recreational bike routes choice, bicycle facilities design, and investment evaluation. Dr. Chang established the first Smart Public Bike System (PBS) in university campus in Taiwan. She is a member at the Committee on Bicycle Transportation of Transportation Research Board in the USA from 2009~2012, and will be a speaker in the Public Bike master class session III on the topic of "Feasibility study on Public Bike Development in Taiwan Communities", and a panelist in the session looking at the broader behavioral aspects and lessons of share/transport (Session VII). --> [
Professor of the China Academy of Transport Sciences in Beijing. He has served as Executive Director of Transportation Institute in Taiwan, Chair of ITS Asia Pacific Forum, and Scientific Committee Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, among others. Advisor to the Mayor and Taipei City Government since 1994, Dr. Chang has on numerous occasions served as advisor for promotion of sustainable urban and transportation development to international institutes and NGOs. In April 2006, he created a program to train representatives from more than 80 cities for the first Car Free Day activities in China. He served as Principal Investigator to the program "Green Transport for Chinese Cities" from 2000 to 2003, coordinating demonstration projects in more than fifteen cities. He is now hard at work on and widely sharing his green transport theory of BBMW (Bike + Bus + Metro + Walk) in many cities across Asia. Jason is a member of the Executive Committee--> [
Rights & President of Taiwan Association for Human Rights, was Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs between 2000 and 2005, and was one of the eighteen founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In 2006, she won the Kaohsiung mayoral elections and became the city's first elected female mayor. In order to develop Kaohsiung City as a livable and sustainable city, Mayor Chen has adopted the policy of linking mainline and shuttle buses for the Kaohsiung MRT and the High Speed Rail, purchasing new buses and weeding out old ones, adjusting bus routes, and establishing a public bicycle traffic network. She has been a strong supporter of the city's widely acclaimed annual Car Free Day celebration. In July of this year, Mayor Chen was awarded the first ranking in Taiwan's 2010 Chief Executive Satisfaction Survey.
business from 17 locations to 77 with nearly 200 cars in 3 years and at same time maintained a healthy bottom line to build a viable service. He also helped to lead the growth of the Singapore carsharing market together with 3 other carsharing operators where the membership has grown by 5 times from 2002 to 2005. He is now the General Manager of INVERS Asia, where he is helping interested parties in Asian cities to setup and introduce car-sharing service to their community. He is now working on carsharing projects in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. From experience the road ahead can be challenging but it can be both fulfilling and rewarding. He believes in sharing as it helps to foster better resource utilisation and it empowers the society to build sustainable growth. --> [
staff have been engaged in improving Kaohsiung city's image for many years. Their experience and their successes in this field cover a wide range. Some of the recent larger City Image events include the International Summit of Waterfront Cities, Worlds Game Kaohsiung Pre-event, and the World Games First Anniversary. City Image insists on setting a high professional standard for the benefit of the city we love in order to create things worthy of recording and remembering. The City Image team is responsible for local management and support services for the 2010 conference. --> 
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from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a BA in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, as a National Transit Institute Fellow and for nine years on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors. She Chairs TRB's Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors, and sits on the TRB Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons. Katherine received the 2006 Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, a 2006 award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas from the Social Enterprise Alliance, the 2004 Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good. In 2009 Katherine was named as an AARP Inspire Award Honoree. --> [
sustainable transport and environmentally friendly mobility. Key objectives of all these projects are the integration of lifestyle issues and urban development with transport issues. Car-Sharing is an important element of many projects - as in the European moses-project and the ongoing 
Tan Hochen served as the Director General of Taipei City Department of Transportation, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taiwan as well as the Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom. Mr. Hochen has hands-on experiences on both transportation consulting and policy-making, and he was the major advocate of many human-oriented facilities in Taipei, such as Bike Lanes, Bus Rapid Transit and Mass Rapid Transit. Mr. Hochen, is now devoted on promoting ecological engineering with focus on sustainability.
Mark Hsiao is the vice president of Infoexplorer Co. Infoexplorer is a leading system integration company specialized in ITS area. For the past 20 years, Mark Hsiao has been engaged with many large-scale ITS projects in Taiwan, such as ATMS of Taipei city, Taoyuan county and national freeway network, APTS of Highway Bureau, and ICT applications research. By using advanced information and communication technologies, these systems significantly improve the efficiency of traffic operation and energy consumption.
of the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum and prior to that was a veteran business news reporter and newspaper editor for the Commercial Times and national desk editor for the Independence Morning/Evening Post in Taipei, where she was a particularly influential press reporter looking at the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Today, besides running Mega Trans, she also volunteers as Advisor to the Motorcycle Safety Association of Taiwan. Susan hopes to bring Carsharing to Taiwan in the near future. She is serving as Senior Project Associate for both international and national coordination, and as advisor for media relations and communications for the conference.
University. She holds a master degree in Mass Communication from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and obtained her certificate in German Language Teaching and Research from University of Kassel, Germany. Lin previously served as the Legislator of 5th & 6th sessions in Legislative Yuan, the 8th & 9th terms national party representative in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Minister of National Youth Commission in Executive Yuan, and Committee Member of the 14th Central Advisory Council in DPP. In order to develop Fengshan as a livable and sustainable city in Kaohsiung, Lin has Impelled the policy of Fengshan railroad underground and promoted the whole development of Fengshan metropolis. She will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session IV on DRTS and Taxi/Small Bus Sharing.
Research, Development and Evaluation Commission in Kaohsiung City Government, and Managing Director of The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung Organizing Committee between 2008 and 2010. She has served as Deputy Secretary General of National Security Council, Deputy Secretary General in Office of the President, Secretary General in Executive Yuan, Legislator of 5th session in Legislative Yuan, and Director of Environmental Protection Department in Taipei City Government. Engaged in promotion of environmental protection policies and making Kaohsiung a sustainable city, Liu is International Affairs Advisory Counselor of Democratic Progressive Party, Visiting Fellow of CNAPS program in Brookings Institution, and President of Cross-Straits Study Association (CSSA). She will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session II on Ridesharing.
steering committee for several voluntary organizations including; Local Government Technical Advisors Group Transport Committee, Carfree UK, and is European Mobility Week Coordinator for the UK.
Previously he worked in marketing roles in the bicycle business, and was based in Taiwan, global home of the bicycle industry, for seven years, where he also organized car free events.
Rory sees sharing as a common element of many sustainable travel campaigns, be it information, space, or vehicles. Rory is assisting Kaohsiung conference as Project Administrator, as well as leading the working group on Travel behavior/ Employer Shared Transport (EST) and the key contact for the Young Researchers program.
a formalisation of that unique method of carpool formation found in Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area (also known as "casual carpooling"). Arguing that for more carpooling we need meeting places rather than databases, Mr. Minett has been making steady progress towards testing of this alternative mode. A recent report by the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center estimated the energy saving potential and explored barriers to implementation. He is currently carrying out a feasibility study of flexible carpooling to transit stations in Seattle WA. The system of express carpooling will be launched under the brand name Raspberry Rideshare, and the service will be called the Raspberry Express. --> [
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, followed by a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Delaware and then a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan. He started his research career working on mechanical properties of human aortic tissue. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car he is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people's right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. Recipient of: Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award. He will be joining the conference by a video link. --> [
Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Nagoya University. His fields of international expertise covers transportation systems analysis, travel behavior analysis, and environmentally sustainable transport. After completing a graduate program in the Dept. of Transportation Engineering of Kyoto University, (Master of Engineering), he went on to earn a PhD in the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Civil Engineering. More - http://www.trans.civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~morikawa/morikawa-e.htm
served in the Engineering Army (1998 ~ 2000). He holds Master degrees in Transportation Engineering and City Planning from University of California Berkeley (2003), and a Ph.D. in Transportation Technology and Policy from University of California Davis (2008). His dissertation is on the Motorization and Vehicle Purchase Behavior in China. Jason worked as a Transportation Planner/Engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff, USA (2007~2010), and interned with Metropolitan Transportation Commission (2003), City of San Leandro (2004), and Dowling Associates, Inc. (2005). He also worked as Graduate Student Researcher at University of California Transportation Center (UC Berkeley, 2001 ~ 2003).
America since 2002 in work that has involved organizational, advocacy and policy-related activities. His work has also included the delivery of training courses on sustainable transport topics, editing and writing various chapters and books on these topics. He is currently Country Director for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) in Colombia. Previously he worked with a foundation in Bogotį as mobility coordinator and coordinated the GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project in Asia and Latin America. He will be one of our lead speakers in Session VII (Behavior) and IX (Conclusions, Recommendations, Next Steps, 2011).
projects. David has worked extensively in the Greater China region and Asia as a transport consultant. He is better known in Taiwan as the former Director General of Taipei's Department of Transportation, where he initiated a network of exclusive bus lanes that greatly alleviated travel congestion in Taipei some 15 years ago. A life-long proponent for pedestrian and transit priority in our cities, David continues to work on bringing sustainable transport concepts to the attention of city leaders and planning and engineering professionals. As a firm believer of creating win-win solutions, he is also working on the creation of business models that will allow for-profit businesses to have greater participation in sustainable transport development.
Wilmington. After university, he joined the Peace Corps and was stationed to Ghana where he did community outreach in the field of water and sanitation. Bradley was hired by ITDP to be the Program Manager for Ghana office, and later was promoted to Cape Town as California Bike Senior Project Director. While in Cape Town, Bradley received his MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix. He is a project manager who has worked on developing bicycle supply chain networks to various African countries, creating and certifying a national bicycle mechanic training program in South Africa, documenting and presenting best practices of bicycle sharing (public bike) globally but with an Asian focus and on the implementation of a public bike sharing program in Guangzhou, China.
Yu-tin Tu is the Supervisor for the project at City Image. The City Image team is responsible for local management and support services for the 2010 conference. She majored in Mass Communication at university. Because of her love her hometown Kaohsiung, she decided to move from Taipei and back to Kaohsiung four years ago. Now she has joined the work to improve Kaohsiung city's image. She is responsible for setting Chinese website, registration etc. for the 2010 conference.
public transit, and reduce the growth of private transport and greenhouse gas emissions, the most important environmental and traffic issues in Kaohsiung. Kent has more than 20 years of experience in transportation field, specializing in traffic engineering & control, intelligent transportation system, public transit management, and is also a registered traffic engineer in Taiwan. He has served as Executive Director of Chinese Institute of Transportation (CIT), Director of Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan (ITS), Director of Taipei Society for Traffic Society (TSTS), Founding Director of Taipei Traffic Engineering Association, and Committee Member of the Taipei County Economic Strategy Council. Dr. Wang is serving as one of the hosts for the conference and associated events of Kaohsiung 2010.
University in Taiwan. He is an adviser of Kaohsiung County Government since 2001. In the past ten years, Professor Wu has been invited as Director of Association of Local Development, Committee member of Kaohsiung City and Harbor Construction, Committee member of Regional Planning Commission, Ministry of Interior, Committee member of Pingtung County Urban Planning Commission, Committee member of Tainan City Urban Planning Commission, Committee member of Ministry of Examination, Associate Chairperson of Kaohsiung Urban Planning Commission, Associate Chairperson of Kaohsiung City Sustainable Development Network, Adviser of Industrial Technology Research Institute. Dr. Wu's research focuses on Urban & Regional Economics / Policy Analysis, & Multicriteria Decision Analysis. He will be taking an active role in the Mayor's Round Table and Session VI on Street/sharing
First Rank Scholarship of Lanzhou University, the National Second Class Scholarship of China, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship. She performed a two-year survey on informal car/sharing in Beijing, China from 2005 to 2007, and published some papers on this topic. She conducted research as a visiting Doctoral student in the Sustainable Transportation Research Center (TSRC) in University of California, Berkeley from 2008 to September 2010. Her research at TSRC focuses primarily on bike/sharing all over the world, especially attention was given to the world's biggest bike/sharing system in Hangzhou, China. She will be participating in our Future Leaders/Young Scholars program, and will be making contributions in the car/share and bike/share sessions.