Transit Oriented Development ( 09.03.2010)

Invitation

You are cordially invited to

To

TOD - Transit Oriented Development

Urban Planning around Accessible Rail Transit

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

9 am to 16:15 pm

Butler Auditorium, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa

TOD - Transit Oriented Development

Urban Planning around Accessible Rail Transit

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Butler Auditorium, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa

09:00 – 09:30      Registration and coffee

09:30 – 10:00      Welcome addresses:

Prof. Moshe Moshe, Director, Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology,  Technion

Tzvika Gringold,  Mayor, Ofakim

10:00 – 11:15      TOD – An Emerging Innovation in Urban Planning and Real Estate

Prof. Yehuda Hayut, Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology - Chair

Speakers:

Prof. Shlomo Maital,  Senior Research Fellow, S. Neaman Institute --  TOD as an Emerging Innovation

Prof. Daniel Gat, Center for Urban and Regional Studies --   National Benefits of Transit Oriented Districts for Israel

Dr. Yodan Rofè, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and the Movement for Israeli Urbanism – Urban Planning and Design Aspects of TOD

11:15 – 11:45                                                      Coffee break

11:45 – 13:00      Keynote Address:

Mobility and the Modern Metropolis: Making TOD a Reality

                                Peter Katz, Director, Smart Growth / Urban Planning Sarasota County, Florida; Founding Director, Congress for the New Urbanism and Author, The New Urbanism

13:00 – 14:00                                                      Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00      Mayors` Roundtable

                                Tzvika Greengold, Mayor, Ofakim - Chair

Speakers:

 Yariv Katz, Vice-Chair for Infrastructure, Israel Railroads

Mayors from the Haifa Metropolitan Area and the Gallilea

16:00 – 16:15      Summary and the way forward