SS10 Bike Rapid Transit (BiRT) for Green Transportation

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Monday, October 17, 2011: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
S220B (Orange County Convention Center )
Organizer:
Heechul Shin, Research Fellow, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)
Invited Moderator:
Sang-Min Lee, Senior Research Fellow, The Korea Transport Institute

Session Description

This session will present the preliminary phase of worldwide research and development for the bicycle systems to be one of the major modes in urban transport. “Bike Rapid Transit (BiRT)" projects in Germany, USA, Canada, Korea, and/or other countries will be reviewed. This session will focus on how BiRT could be developed as a significant transport mode and what technology would need to be adopted for improving the conventional bicycle systems and infrastructure worldwide.

Invited Speakers:

Heechul Shin, Research Fellow, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)

Gabe Klein, Director, District Department of Transportation (DDOT)

Lennart Olsson, Project Manager, Swedish Transport Administration

Nam Cheol Baik, Director, Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT)

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