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Flows of Finance and the Flows of a City: How One Corporation Came to Control Australia’s East Coast
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Date: 18 NOV 2016 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: CPD-2.14, 2/F, Central Podium Level, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:Transurban is one of the world’s largest motorway corporations and the operator of the major tolled motorways in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. The seminar examines the reasons for the…
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Towards the Next Generation of Integrated Urban Models
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Date: 09 DEC 2016 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Kwan Fong Lecture Theatre, Room 223, 2/F Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:Integrated models of urban transportation and land use have evolved from the pioneering models of the 1960’s and 1970’s to operational implementation in many urban regions worldwide.…
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How Many Cars are Too Many?
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Date: 14 OCT 2016 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong Speaker: Abstract:Drawing on on-going work with A. Loder, the talk will sketch a model system able to give a first answer to this question. The work was inspired by the predicament of…
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Challenges and Opportunities of Hong Kong’s Aviation Industry
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Date: 20 SEP 2016 (TUE) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Abstract:This seminar will discuss the opportunities and challenges for Hong Kong’s aviation industry. Important recent developments include: 1) the 2008 global financial crisis; 2) the growth of Mainland China’s aviation sector…
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Career Strategies in Transport and Logistics
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Date: 29 APR 2016 (FRI) Time: 19:30-21:30 Venue: CILTHK Office Speakers: Mr Anthony S H Wong Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong Mr. Anthony Wong is a professional accountant qualified in 1974 and has been a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of…
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Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management in the New Millennium
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Date: 20 APR 2016 (WED) Time: 18:00-19:00 Venue: Room Y302, 3/F, Lee Shau Kee Building (Block Y), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Speakers: Abstract:The presentation will discuss the motivation for developing an integrated transportation asset management (TAM) tool as a system of infrastructure systems, in the context of challenges and…
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How much is too much for tolled road users: toll saturation and the implications for car commuting value of travel time savings
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Date: 15 JAN 2016 (FRI) Time: 18:30-19:30 Venue: Room 2.58, Central Podium Level, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:The current practice of forecasting the demand for new tolled roads typically assumes that car users are prepared to pay a higher toll for a shorter journey, and they…
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Tackling Traffic Congestion from both the Control and Demand Perspectives
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Date: 16 DEC 2015 (WED) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Professor Gang-Len ChangProfessor and the Director of Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, U.S.A. and Manager of the Applied Technologies for…









