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• Rome, Italy, Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.
  First Forum on Car Sharing: New cities, new mobility. Draft program available
  Contact: Francesca Sallusto, Forum Secretariat (icsforum@yahoo.it)
  Meeting Background notes:
  Car Sharing was identified by the Italian Ministry of Environment in 1998 as one of the measures contained in a package of strategic interventions to improve the environmental sustainability of mobility. At the same time, the crucial importance of Local Authorities involvement in the activation of services in individual towns has been recognized. The creation of a national organism which guarantees the respecting of service standards and stimulating the development of Car Sharing has also been high lighted as a strategic factor in the growth of Car Sharing. I.C.S. - Iniziativa Car Sharing, was created for this purpose in October 2000 in the form of a "consortium of Municipalities". I.C.S. brings together many of the most important Italian cities: including Bologna, Brescia, Florence, Genoa, Modena, Palermo, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Turin, Venice, Novara, Milan, Rome and the Provinces of Milan and Rimini.
  
• Antibes, France, 10-11 Juin 2004, 2004.
  European CyberCars Project presentation Draft program available
  Contact: Michel Parent, Coordinator of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
  Conference Web page: http://www.cybercars.org/ Meeting Background notes:
  Auto congestion and pollution is an ongoing dilemma for Europe’s cities, but small electric automated CyberCars that run on the existing urban infrastructure promise to make Europe’s crowded capitals cleaner, safer, and easier to manoeuvre. The development and adoption of vehicles running autonomously without a driver on city streets at low speed (up to 30 km/h at the moment), while avoiding fixed and mobile obstacles, is the goal of IST-project CYBERCAR. This concept of using automobiles in a public system evolved out of car-sharing in Switzerland and Germany, where a small fleet of cars is shared among a large number of users, who can even take a car at both ends of a train trip.
  The CYBERCAR consortium has brought together European players that have been long involved in this field to test and exchange best practices, share some of the development work, and progress faster in the experiments. So far, project manager Michel Parent says, "We have developed new technologies for navigation, vehicle control, obstacle avoidance, fleet management, and we have integrated these technologies in several automated vehicles, now available on the market." He adds: "There is no equivalent on the market. These vehicles can be used in existing sites (as long as there are not too many cars around) to offer a transportation system for everyone and on-demand."
  
• Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 19-24 July 2004 .
  Towards Carfree Cities IV. Draft program available
  Contact: Conference Secretariat (info@worldcarfree.ne)
  Conference Web page: http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/
  Meeting Background notes:
  Towards Carfree Cities IV will bring together people from across Europe and beyond who are promoting practical alternatives to car dependence - walking, cycling and public transport, and ultimately the transformation of cities, towns and villages into human-scaled, pedestrian environments rich in public space and community life. The focus will be on strategy, collaboration and exchange, assisting the practical work of conference participants - whether it be organising car-free days, promoting urban cycling, or building the carfree cities of the future.

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• Estoril (Lisbon), Portugal, March 17-20 2004
  2004 European ELE-DRIVE Transport Conference & Exhibit: "Urban Sustainable Mobility is possible - now!" - Sustainable transport/carsharing conference
  Contacts: Robert Stüssi and Jorge Esteves, Co-Chairmen
  Conference Secretariat: APVE - Associação Portuguesa do Veículo Eléctrico
  Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa PORTUGAL
  Telefone: +351 969 864 626 -- E-Mail: 2004eet@apve.pt
  Conference Web page: http://www.apve.pt/conteudo_index/2004eet/index.asp
  Meeting Background notes:The two-day European Conference offers you an opening session with top keynote speakers, a round table with the presence of major actors from the field of sustainable mobility and electric driven vehicles technology; 22 parallel sessions with some 100 papers will illustrate practical solutions as well as the latest technical and scientific progress. The European conference will be preceded by a 1-day national conference.

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