InfoD: IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems 2008

      ** IIID Expert Forum Transport Guiding Systems 2008 **

         Infoconnectivity /=A0Intertwined information for
         interconnected transport networks


Dates: 4-5 September 2008

Place: Tech Gate Vienna, Donau-City-Stra=DFe 1, Wien/Vienna 1220 Austria

Website: http://www.iiid-expertforum.net/


** Theme:
Readily accessible and easy to understand =

customer information is key to the successful =

development of public transport. The Expert Forum =

serves the shared interests of =

designers/planners, researchers, educators, =

operating companies, transport authorities and =

the state that carries most of the costs of =

public transport networks.


** Organiser:
- International Institute for Information Design (IIID)
Partners:
- Oesterreichisches Bundesministerium fuer =

Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie / Austrian =

Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and =

Technology (BMVIT)
- OeBB-Personenverkehr AG / Austrian Federal Railways Passenger Transport


** Program:

Thursday, 4 September 2008

09:00  Registration and coffee
10:00  Welcomes - Peter Simlinger, IIID
                   Walter Wasner, BMVIT
                   Christian Eder, OeBB
        Opening remarks - Per Mollerup (Chairman)

Session 1: Cardinal questions
10:15 - Keynote: Hermann Knoflacher 'Infoconnectivity =AD the value of
         certainty and uncertainty for interconnected transport networks'

       - Hans-Joerg von Berlepsch 'Information and Communication Connectivi=
ty
         in Public Transport =AD The Frankfurt Experience'
       - Gerhard Besau 'Planning the new Vienna central railway station:
         Requirements on passenger information'

Session 2: Design Concepts
12:15 - Tim Fendley 'Legible London =AD A prototype wayfinding system for L=
ondon'
       - Martin Foessleitner 'In between. Travelling zones.'
       - Giuseppe Attoma Pepe 'Infoconnectivity: A Multi-modal Trip to Babel
         Methodological approaches: from information design to service desi=
gn'

Session 3: Solutions
15:00 - Alex Nelson 'Ideas above his station. How a small independent railw=
ay
         station helps travellers all over Britain
       - Robert N. Forsythe 'Messages from the Western European Fringe: an
         island, a city, a shopping mall

16:30 - Beat Huerzeler 'How to fulfil the promises made in the timetables?'
       - Uwe Boegge 'Managing traveller information at the new Berlin
         Hauptbahnhof'

End approx. 17:40

Friday, 5 September 2008

Session 4: Outlook
09:15 - Markus Ray 'PROVET - An approach for providing personalised
         information in multimodal transport systems'
       - Keiichi Koyama 'Personalized information systems in Japan'
       - Gerhard Weissinger 'Optimizing sales and sales related information'
       - Helmut Ness 'Be prepared for new environments'

11:40 - Josef Schneider 'Door to Door journeys: Current realities and
         future demands from passenger's view
       - Barry Roseman 'Interconnected Information for Unconnected Transport
         Networks: A Model for Education in Information Design
       - Frank Michelberger 'Research in progress - Research funding and
         promotion activities of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transpor=
t,
         Innovation and Technology'

End approx. 13:15


14:30 IIID Seminar: Introduction into traffic guiding systems

Seminar in German (with one exception)
- Yo Kaminagai 'Navigation in complex spaces (in English)'
- Peter Simlinger 'Design-Prinzipien, Design-Praxis'
- Thomas Valentin 'Vom Entwurf zur Ausschreibung zur Realisierung'
- Dietmar Radler 'Orientierungshilfen herstellen, befestigen, fundieren'

End approx. 18:00

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