Interactive Web Event Allows Networking with Top Industry Professionals-

A free, live, interactive web event is taking place on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 in which the authors of An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation and Transport for Suburbia will be exploring the difficulties that sustainability poses for transport planners. Preston L. Schiller and Paul Mees will introduce the latest opinions on transport policy from local, regional and global perspectives and offer innovative solutions. Join this event and discover the cultural, historical and political challenges to creating sustainable transport systems; explore the different policies that work at local, regional and national levels; learn about successful as well as ineffective solutions from cities across the globe; and ask questions to leading experts in transportation. “An excellent way of hearing about recent developments from leading thinkers in the field,” says Dr Sarah Dalrymple, Teaching Fellow in Ecology, University of Aberdeen. The web event will be taking place on Wednesday 11 August 2010, 17:00 (UK time – GMT +1), 12:00 (EDT), 9:00 (PDT). For more information, and to view archived versions of previous Earthcasts, please visit www.earthscan.co.uk/earthcasts. Click here for free registration.

Paul Mees is Senior Lecturer in transport planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.

Preston L. Schiller is Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.