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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 11, 2010
Summary Sentence:
Sustainability Forum Focuses on Swiss Technology
Full Summary:
Switzerland claims the best transportation system in the world. In the Sustainable Transportation Policy Forum held on campus January 20-21, the Swiss light rail system was presented as a model of best practices that could help resolve the southeast's growing traffic congestion.
Switzerland claims the best transportation system in the world. In the Sustainable Transportation Policy Forum held on campus January 20-21, the Swiss light rail system was presented as a model of best practices that could help resolve the southeast's growing traffic congestion.
Co-organized by the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Consulate General of Switzerland, the forum brought together a distinguished roster of business and political leaders, regional planners, advocates, and policy makers from Georgia and the southeast to evaluate the challenges and choices facing Georgia.
Georgia Tech President G. P. "Bud" Peterson offered welcoming remarks and a toast to the Swiss Ambassador at the forum's reception.
The Swiss offered lessons from their long history of building and operating public transportation. They've invested heavily in transit system sciences and technologies including tunnel and bridge construction (through the Alps), clean-energy transportation vehicles, and long lasting infrastructures. Their technologies are exported around the world.
Remarks were also made by Urs Ziswiler, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States, and Steve McLaughlin, Vice Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia Tech. Panelists and moderators included EUCE Director Vicki Birchfield, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs; Michael Meyer, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Catherine Ross, Professor, College of Architecture; mayors from Athens and Charlotte, NC; Georgia state senators Doug Stoner and Jeff Mullis; as well as regional, national and Swiss experts in transportation planning and policy.
The Forum is part of the U.S.-wide outreach program ThinkSwiss "" Brainstorm the Future which promotes exchanges and the sharing of know-how related to "sustainable transportation" between the United States and Switzerland.
