Helsinki Summer School in Transportation 2011, August 8–12

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Helsinki Summer School in Transportation 2011
Rethinking the Transportation Planning Process
Executive Course
August 8–12, 2011

The Helsinki Summer School in Transportation has established itself as a premier institution offering innovative and practical approaches to understand and solve complex transport problems. The Summer School presents an intensive learning experience to mid-career professionals of transport engineering and planning, and graduate students. Following the very successful Summer Schools in past four years, the theme in 2011 will be Rethinking the Transportation Planning Process in the presence of uncertainty and the participatory decision-making environment.

The Summer School 2011 will take place in August 8-12, 2011 on the beautiful campus of Aalto University Otaniemi (formerly Helsinki University of Technology) in Espoo, Finland. The five day course will bring transport executives, managers and graduate students of varying backgrounds together to a common theme of the Transport Planning Process. A field visit is planned to the Finnish Transport Agency, a multimodal transport administration with a new multimodal approach to transport planning. The class includes a team exercise to apply the concept and approaches to the real world transport planning.

Expected Audience, Tuition and Credits
The Summer School is intended for transportation professionals, managers in transport agencies, transport and traffic engineers, planners, transport consultants, citizen advocates, educators, and graduate students. Expected class size is 40; in the past the participants were from many countries.

The registration fee of EURO 600 includes course material and banquet. After June 1, 2011, the fee is EURO 800.
The attendees may earn continuation education credits in Aalto University School of Engineering (3 ECTS-credits). A limited number of scholarships for registration fee is available for graduate students.

For further information, visit the event's website.