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This list in just getting underway. Bionotes and photos are being added daily as they come in. For a more complete listing check back again in the weeks immediately ahead.
John is emeritus professor of geography at University College London. London on whose challenging streets he
has got around by bike daily for the about last thirty years. He was a member of the original Board of Directors of Friends of the Earth and has been involved in debates about environmental issues ever since. He has written extensively about transport issues. Transport Planning: vision and practice was his first book; more recently he has explored The Social Consequences of Hypermobility. John has taken a close interest in the way different road users - pedestrians, cyclists and motorists - relate to each other, a subject first examined in Risk and freedom: the record of road safety regulation and in numerous publications since.
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Jan is one of the two Greenwheels founders who first came across car sharing when they read about Berlin-based StattAuto Car Sharing. They liked the concept but were convinced that it could be improved upon with the help of modern ICT applications such as on-board computers, chip cards and mobile telephony. Realising their ideas, they put their first three cars on the Rotterdam roads in June 1995. Undoubtedly helped by a partnership
with the Dutch Railways, their success soon surpassed that of their German example. They took over StattAuto in 2004 - the acquisition of Shell
Drive Deutschland was announced in January 2006.
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Born in Mississippi, educated in New England and Europe, Eric studied science and economics at Amherst and Columbia College,
and later the PhD program of the Graduate Faculty of Economics at Columbia (PhD Cand.), with work on a dissertation on technology, development and job creation as Fulbright Fellow in Italy. In 1967 co-founded EcoPlan, a consultancy/network providing decision counsel to government, industry and the volunteer sector on issues involving the management of technological change as it affects people in their daily lives. Has served as advisor to numerous offices of the UN, OECD, European Union, and government agencies. Founded The Commons in 1974, the New Mobility Agenda in 1988. In 2000 he and Enrique Peñalosa, mayor of Bogotá Colombia, were co-awarded the Stockholm Environment Challenge Prize for 'outstanding socio-technical innovation'. In 2002 he was awarded the World Technology Environment Prize.
Eric's job here is as editor, organiser and co-author.
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Dave founded the first commercial carshare in the United States
in 1998 with the launch of CarSharing Portland in Oregon. The
following year he was a co-founder of Flexcar. In 2001 he sold his company to
Flexcar and continued working for them in various capacities, as
Portland manager, in national development and special projects until
2003. He stays in contact with carsharing around the world and posts
news about developments in carsharing and new mobility at his website
Carsharing.US. Dave provides consulting services to start up and
operating carsharing companies and new mobility services, using his
experience as an entrepreneur and in the corporate environment.
Recently, he joined two other carsharing entrepreneurs, Tracy Carroll
in Seattle and Conrad Wagner in Switzerland to form an international
consulting firm: Carsharing International.
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Ali has spent the last 10 years helping communities set up effective car share schemes. His mission is to 'encourage and enable more efficient use of the car'.
In 1998 he set up the www.liftshare.com whilst still at university and now he and a team of 15 run the UK's national network of over 1,000 liftshare schemes. liftshare now has over 250,000 members, saving over 55 million car miles and 17,000 tonnes of CO2.
In 2006 liftshare piloted their first international version and are set to roll out a number of mutli-lingual liftshare schemes overseas in 2008.
Ali was UK Transport Planner of the year 2006, winner of the Enterprising Young Brits Award 2005, presented by Chancellor Gordon Brown, and of numerous other prestigious awards for his work in bringing ridesharing to Britain.
Now in its 10th year liftshare have received a Queen's Award for Innovation and were selected to represent the UK in the 2008 European Business Awards for Environment.
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| Sharing: cars, rides, and wireless networks |
| Robin Chase, GoLoco, Meadow Networks, United States |
Robin was the founding CEO of Zipcar, now the largest carsharing company in the world. Its success is largely due
to careful marketing and branding, as well as its disruptive use of the internet and wirieless technologies to make getting a rental car as easy and convenient as getting cash from an ATM. Robin is founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community that uses social networking, sophisticated online search and alerts, as well as PayPal to make finding and sharing car travel as easy and rewarding as possible. Through Meadow Networks, Robin advises state and national governments on ways to use wireless technologies, and in particular mesh networks, in their transportation systems. Robin has won numerous national awards for design, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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| The space between buildings |
| Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants, Denmark |
Jan is an internationally recognized urbanist, planner and world expert on public spaces.
He and his colleagues have worked extensively to improve the conditions of walking, cycling andpublic spaces in many cities, building on their extensive hands-on experience in their own city of Copenhagen and the other many places.
His special work started in 1966 when he received a research grant for "studies of the form and use of public spaces." Jan is a founding partner of Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants.
His book Public Spaces, Public Life describes how incremental improvements have transformed Copenhagen from a car-dominated city to a pedestrian-oriented city over 40 years
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| Jasper Lim, Merlien Institute, Netherlands |
Jasper is the director of Merlien Institute, an independent organisation dedicated to facilitating dialogue among academics,
businesses and government organisations on issues related to information and communication technologies. Jasper holds a Master degree in Transport and Maritime Management from the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Since 2001, through the funding from the Dutch Ministry of Transport, he has been researching on ways travellers could reduce their travel time losses through eWorking. Apart from his research activities, he is also freelance consultant at the European Networking Group (ENG). His other professional activities include serving as the Managing Editor of The Journal of eWorking and also as a Board Member of the International Telework Academy (ITA).
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| Markus Heller, Carfree Living, Germany |
Markus works as freelance architect in Berlin, Germany. In recent years he has worked as project director of the "Carfree Quarter at the Panke" in Berlin-Mitte.
From 1995-2001 he was an independent consultant for the Green Party in the parliamentary council of the district Berlin-Mitte for "City Development, Building and Transportation", since 2006 is serving there again. From 1997-1999 he worked as developer and controller for new trade projects of "METRO AG" in Poland. Markus is on the Advisory Board of World Carfree Network (WCN) since 2007 and the head of Autofrei Wohnen (carfree living.
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| Traffic engineering/Modeling |
| Mikel Murga, Center of Transportation and Logistics, USA & Spain |
As President and CEO of Leber Planificación e Ingeniería in Bilbao since 1988, Mikel leads the international transportation planning and traffic engineering
activities of the firm, with strong background in computer modeling and systems engineering. The scope of services ranges from strategic advice on public transportation policies or road networks to detailed traffic or transit proposals. This competence is critical for planning new city bike projects. His work has received several awards for the transformation of several cities through a comprehensive approach involving proposals for new traffic, transit, bike and walk access, parking and public spaces policies. Mikel is a Research Associate and Lecturer of the Center of Transportation and Logistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA
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Peter is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. While teaching at the University of Virginia he completed his latest book: "Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change". In 2001-3 Peter directed the production of WA's Sustainability Strategy in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. It was the first state sustainability strategy in the world. In 2004-5 he was a Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney advising the government on planning issues. Peter invented the term 'automobile dependence' to describe how we have created cities where we have to drive everywhere. For 30 years since he attended Stanford University during the first oil crisis he has been warning cities about preparing for peak oil. Peter's book with Jeff Kenworthy 'Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence' was launched in the White House in 1999. He was a Councillor in the City of Fremantle from 1976-80 where he still lives.
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| Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa, Colombia & Canada |
Gil is Executive Director of the Canada based non-profit Walk & Bike for Life, as well as a sought-after international speaker and consultant.
Gil earned a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA. As Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for Bogota, he led his team to design and build over 200 parks, as well as to open 91 kilometers of car-free city roads on Sundays, Ciclovia, where over 1.5 m. people come out weekly to walk, run, skate and bike. He also works as Senior Associate with NYC's Project for Public Spaces, and serves as Senior Consultant for the renowned Danish firm Gehl Architects. He serves on the Boards of Directors of American Trails and City Parks Alliance. Gil lives with his wife and their three children in Ontario, Canada.
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Danijel is co-founder of the Maribor Cyclists' Network, a local NGO striving for sustainable transportation and higher quality of living in Slovenia and throughout Europe
In his day job he is Vice Dean for education and holder of the Chair of Construction and Transportation Informatics at the University of Maribor. From a technical perspective his work keys on the integration of new informatics technologies and applications to transport planning and management, while from a community perspective his work involves organizing and leading public interest groups to support needed sustainability implementations, such as shared bikes, carsharing and other more environmentally effective uses of public space and resources. He can be reached directly here.
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Susan Shaheen became interested in carsharing in the mid-1990s and focused her dissertation research on CarLink the first "smart" carsharing service in the U.S. As part of her post-doctoral research at the University of California - Berkeley she led the CarLink II pilot program and research evaluation. Over the last decade, she has written over 25 reports and publications on carsharing in North America, Asia, and the world. She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on technology management and the environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis (1999). She is the chair of the Emerging and Innovative Public Transport Systems and Technology Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and served as founding chair of the Carsharing/Station car subcommittee from 1999 to 2004.
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| New Mobility/Industry Partnerships |
| Susan Zielinski, Managing Director of SMART, United States
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Sue is Managing Director of University of Michigan's SMART project, a program that undertakes research, demonstration projects, education, and global learning exchange on a range of issues related to the future of transportation in city regions around the world. A former Harvard Loeb Fellow, she co-founded Moving the Economy, a Canada-wide "link tank" that works to catalyze and support sustainable urban transportation innovation as well as New Mobility industry development. She has advised on a range of local, national, and international initiatives, including Transport Canada's Sustainable Development Advisory Committee, the Gridlock Panel of the Ontario Smart Growth Initiative, the OECD's Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Project, the King of Sweden's jury of the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities, and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT).
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