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UBC’s Centre for Transportation Studies and Transport Canada sponsor International Conference on Gateways and Corridors

Dates: May 2-4, 2007

Times: Day 1, 12:00-20:00; Day 2, 08:00-23:00; Day 3, 08:00-16:30

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver

Registration

Conference information:
CTS - Centre for Transportation Studies, Sauder School of Business, UBC
Phone: 604-827-3197
E-mail: conference2007@cts.ubc.ca
Website: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/cts

Price (includes GST, meals and all conference materials):
Regular: $553.32 (until March 31st)
Academic/Government: $424.72*

March 31st onward:
Regular: CDN: $614.80*
Academic/Government: CDN: $445.20*

This conference forms part of the Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Consortium which is exploring the economic and theoretical foundations of Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor concept . The Conference has been designed to generate major, high quality, policy relevant discussions and academic study providing a basis for future policy direction on Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor concept.

32 renowned speakers from Canada, the United States, Hong Kong , Singapore, China, New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK will provide presentations exploring the Asia-Pacific Gateway concept and the implications for transportation and infrastructure policies to realize gateway and corridor related development opportunities.

The themes included in the conference are:

- The theory of gateways and corridors

- Gateways, corridors and competitiveness

- Supply chains and gateway and corridors

- Gateway Governance and regulation

- Urban Land Use, Gateways and Sustainability

- Security, Risk and information management

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