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Community Engagement and Transport Planning : A Practitioner’s Perspective
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Date: 08 APR 2011 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:In Hong Kong, the use of community engagement (CE) models is gaining popularity as a means of helping secure public feedback to facilitate project implementation. The speaker will share…
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Using Strategy Maps to Achieve Corporate Goals in Transport Companies: the Cases of MTRC and HWL
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Date: 11 MAR 2011 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:Many companies are facing keen competitions in the globalized business environment. Transport and logistics firms are of no exception. How to be successful in the new decade is what…
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Let the Bullet Trains Fly – the Impacts of High-speed Train on Chinese Cities
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Date: 28 JAN 2011 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:This seminar presents some progress made in the early stage of our research project about the impacts of high-speed railways (HSR) on urban spatial dynamics in China. The presentation…
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Value Added Gateway and Global Supply Chain: Transforming North America Intermodal Transport
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Date: 25 JAN 2011 (TUE) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 211, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Prof. Claude Comtois Department of Geography Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation Claude Comtois is professor of geography at Montreal University, Canada. He has a degree in…
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Road Safety of Inter-urban Highways in China
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Date: 08 OCT 2010 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 211, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:Inter-urban highways are main roads connecting cities and towns. The current national standard of China defines inter-urban highways under five classes, namely Expressways and Classes 1, 2, 3 and…
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Challenges of the Supply Chain in High Technology Industry
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Date: 23 APR 2010 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:Starting from the change of the standardization with mass volume production to the mass customization with small and frequent volume demands in the dynamic high technology industry, the 7…
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A Review of the Travel Characteristics Surveys Conducted in Hong Kong
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Date: 16 APR 2010 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:After the completion of the first Comprehensive Transport Study in Hong Kong in 1976, the Hong Kong Government conducted three Travel Characteristics Surveys in 1981, 1992, and 2002. The…
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Understanding the Inland Waterways Transport in the Pearl River Basin, China
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Date: 12 MAR 2010 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:This presentation discusses the issues concerning the inland waterway transport (IWT) in the Guangxi and Guangdong in China, based on speaker’s research work in 2009 commissioned by the Planning…









