TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
OECD International Conference, Vancouver Canada, 24-27 March 1996

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Session 1D

Looking Down the Road

This session with explore three visions of sustainable transportation: the incremental technology vision of the automobile industry, a vision based on the introduction of major technological advances in vehicles and fuels, and a vision that focuses on achieving sustainable transport through reducing the amount of movement of people and goods.

Co-Chairs:

• Don Fast, B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Canada
  
• Al Cormier, Canadian Urban Transit Association, Canada

• Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, U.S.A.
  
• Peter Newman, Murdoch University, Australia
  
• Achim Diekman, International Association of Automobile Industry, Germany

• Gunther Ellwanger, International Union of Railways, Paris
  
• Ricardo Neves, Institute of Technology for the Citizen, Brazil
  
• Deborah Bleviss, International Institute for Environmental Conservation, U.S.A.
  
• Martin Kroon, Ministry of Housing, Planning, and the Environment, Netherlands
  
• Roberta Nichols, formerly with the Ford Motor Company, U.S.A.

• Mary Thynel, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Sweden
  
• Jay Barclay, Global Air Issues Branch, Environment Canada
  

Discussion from the floor

Abstracts of Presentations:

• Amory Lovins, Hyper Cars and Negatrips: The Next Transport Revolution
• Peter Newman, Reducing Automobile Dependance
• Achim Diekman, Difficult Times Ahead for Public Transport
• Gunther Ellwanger, External Effects of Transport
• Deborah Bleviss, Looking Down the Road
• Martin Kroon, Downsizing Power and Speed: the Safe Road to Fuel Economy and Sustainability
• Roberta Nichols, Sustainable Transport in the Twenty-First Century

Rapporteurs' report and ongoing discussion of session topic(s)

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