• Challenges and Opportunities of Hong Kong’s Aviation Industry

    Challenges and Opportunities of Hong Kong’s Aviation Industry

    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…

  • Career Strategies in Transport and Logistics

    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…

  • Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management in the New Millennium

    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…

  • How much is too much for tolled road users: toll saturation and the implications for car commuting value of travel time savings

    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…

  • Tackling Traffic Congestion from both the Control and Demand Perspectives

    Tackling Traffic Congestion from both the Control and Demand Perspectives

    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…

  • On the Geography of Road Accidents: Challenges and Opportunities

    Date: 24 NOV 2015 (TUE) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong. Speaker: Professor Isabelle ThomasResearch Director of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Isabelle Thomas (PhD in geography) is research director of the…

  • Time Determinant in Container Shipping and Port Competitiveness

    Date: 20 NOV 2015 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: LG.34, LG/F, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:Time is a key component of supply chains. As ocean shipping becomes integrated increasingly in global supply chains the question of ocean transit times between ports and ship dwell times within ports…

  • The Future of our Roads to 2020 and Beyond

    Date: 02 OCT 2015 (FRI) Time: 19:00-20:00 Venue: LE9, Library Extension, The University of Hong Kong. Speakers: Abstract:Paying a toll to use parts of the road network has been familiar to many Hong Kong motorists since 1990. However, imposing a fee to manage travel demand has been more controversial wherever…