Sticky: An Earthcast web based seminar on ‘Sustainable Transport Policy’ on 11 August 2010

Earthscan are holding a one hour earthcast on Sustainable Transport Policy on 11 August 2010 at 5 pm.  This earthcast allows you to experience an audio-visual presentation on your computer.  To attend this presentation register here.

Free seminars are offered by Earthscan to promote the books they publish.  The Sustainable Transport Policy earthcast will present Paul Mees, who is a senior lecturer in transport planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Preston Schiller who is adjunct lecturer in the school of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Paul Mees is author of “An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation” and Preston Schiller is author of Transport for Suburbia.

The seminar will explore the problems that sustainability poses for transport planners and innovative solutions from around the world.

• Discover the cultural, historical and political challenges to creating sustainable transport systems
• Explore different policies that work at local, regional and national levels
• Learn about successful and unsuccessful solutions from cities across the world

Preston L. Schiller and Paul Mees will present the latest thinking on transport policy from global, regional and local perspectives.