Views and reflections on how recent developments in planning policy, including the Planning and Local Government White Papers, are (or are not) knitting together in practice, and the implications for integrating transport strategy in the UK.
Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP, Minster for Transport, Department for Transport
Rt Hon John Gummer, MP for Suffolk Coastal
Rt Hon Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Does the planning system help or hinder transport integration?
Chris Shepley, Principal - Chris Shepley Planning & former Chief Planning Inspector & Past President - RTPI
Leonora Rozee, Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Policy - The Planning Inspectorate (PINS)

Practical implications of sustainable development for transport
How will our approach to transport need to change? Pt1
Chaired by Stephen Joseph, Executive Director - Campaign for Better Transport
Prabhat Vaze, Head of Integrated Transport Economics and Appraisal, DfT
Karen Dee, Head of Infrastructure - Confederation of British Industries
Ben Plowden - Transport for London

Workshops
Lynda Addison - Addison Associates
Alan Bain - JMP
John Barratt - Stockholm Environment Institute & Gordon Baker - JMP

Challenges of securing funding for sustainable transport infrastructure
Neil Scales, Chief Executive and Director General - Merseytravel

One transportation planet
Antipodean Contrasts or one Transportation Planet - how politics and community preferences are affecting good practice as NZ interprets integrated and sustainable transportation planning for this millennium.
Malcolm Douglass - DCS Ltd New Zealand

Embedding travel demand management into US policies - lessons for the UK
Recently the US has changed planning requirements for the use of federal transportation funds and has focused on tolling and pricing to address traffic congestion. Is the king of car culture now showing the UK how TDM should be done?
Jon W. Martz, Vice President - Government Relations for VPSI Inc. President - Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT-USA)

Implications of the New Guidance on Transport Assessment
(in association with www.TransportAssessment.org)
Find out how the new TA guidance has changed the way the process now works. The session will detail what is now expected from planners, development control officers and applicants, and emphasise the importance of the relationship with travel plans.
Richard Pettitt, Director - JMP Consultants Ltd
Tim Jones - Barrister

Implications of the New Manual For Streets
A thought-provoking session to explore whether the much hyped new manual is helping to create the sorts of places we aspire, or potentially creating a dangerous new breed of professional robot.
John Dales, Director - Urban Initiatives