Haifa meeting Agenda

4MC & WGs meetings 

14-15.10.15 

The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Segoe Bld. 

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology 

Haifa, Israel 

Agenda 

 

Wednesday, October 14th 2015

09:00 Registration 

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome and opening, Prof. Pnina Plaut 

09:45 – 10:30 "State-of-the-art" presentation and discussion by Prof. Isabelle Thomas (BE): "Urban Models" and "Social Networks": do we converge? 

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break 

10:45 – 13:30 Task Group meetings 

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch 

14:30 – 15:30 Task Groups assembly – discussions and summary 

15:30 – 17:00 Management Committee Meeting 

17:00 Guided tour and dinner in Isfiya, Druz village near Haifa.

 

Thursday, October 15th 2015 

09:00 Opening 

09:15 – 09:45: "State-of-the-art" presentation and discussion by Mr. Andrew Nash, GreenCityStreets.com (Vienna): "Apps and Shared Transport Planning" 

09:45 – 10:30 Presentation of works (STSM- Short Term Scientific Missions): 

  •  Joao Abreu e Silva (PT): Development of a web survey about travel behavior and the use of web based social networks 
  •  Emmanouil Chaniotakis (EL): Capturing the effect of social networks on human mobility behaviour using data from Social Media 
  •  Or Caspi (IL): Exploring Twitter Data for Better Understanding Hotspots and Public Transportation  

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break 

10:45 – 13:00 Work Groups internal discussions 

  •  WG1 : Social networks and travel behaviour analysis (Prof. Rein Ahas, Estonia) 
  •  WG2 : Scenario building and simulations (Prof. Sven Kesselring, Germany) 
  •  WG3 : Urban Analysis (Prof. Isabelle Thomas, Belgium) 
  •  WG4 : Dissemination, uptake and policy measures (Ms. Lucia Cristea, Romania) 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 

14:00 – 17:00 Work Groups internal discussions