The national Campaign for Free Public Transport (after a a few false starts!) has now set a date and booked a venue for our inaugural conference. Taking a somewhat broader approach than has been outlined in previous communications, we now wish to invite any and all academic speakers who wish to debate the merits of Free Public Transport specifically, but also issues around transport and society more broadly. Core themes are as follows:
*Evaluating Public Transport in the UK
*Transport Economics
*Transport and Social Inclusion
*Transport and Climate Change
*Evaluating the merits of public transport subsidies
*Campaigning on Transport Issues
I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise to those researchers who responded to our first call for presentations for the changing of dates, but I'm sure many of you will appreciate the difficulties of assembling a campaign with a truly national scope (we now have members or affiliates in Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich, The Isle of Wight, Bristol, London and many other places as well as ties to international free public transport campaigners - for instance the ambitious plan to finance free public transport in New York City by Charles Komanoff has recently featured in Wired magazine http://www.wired.com/magazine/
Presentations should last no more than 10-15 minutes and all efforts should be taken to make papers accessible to a lay audience. Abstracts can be sent to fptresearchgroup@googlemail.
Your sincerely,
Bob
