MOBILITY IN PROGRAM Moderator: CONTACT METROPOLITAN REGIONS – Kai Rüsberg Journalist (WDR et al.) TOKYO AND THE RUHR AREA 16.00 PANEL DISCUSSION Kai Rüsberg The 20th annual East Asia Day will focus on Moderation mobility in two metropolitan areas: Greater Tokyo J. Alexander Schmidt and the Ruhrgebiet. Panelists: André Sorensen Despite being quite different in size, structure J. Alexander Schmidt Mamoru Taniguchi and historical development, they also share University of Duisburg-Essen, quite a few similarities: Both are the biggest Hans-Werner Wehling Professor of City Planning and economic areas in their respective countries Urban Design, Director Main Research Area Urban Systems with a rapidly aging population. The two regions 18.00–20.00 RECEPTION face the enormous challenge of organizing the transportation of goods and people in a sustain- André Sorensen able manner. The combustion engine driven car 15.00 REGISTRATION University of Toronto Scarborough as most important mean of transport has al- Professor of Urban Geography ready reached its limits. 15.00–20.00 SUPPORTING PROGRAM – 20th DUISBURG EAST ASIA DAY EXPERIENCING THE MOBILITY The panelists, all renowned scholars in their OF THE FUTURE: field, will address the following questions: How • Driving Simulator (Mechatronik, UDE) / is the transport of people and goods organized? Mamoru Taniguchi assisted driving MOBILITY IN What does the public and private transport infra Tsukuba University, structure look like and how further developed? • Exoskeleton (Cyberdyne Care Robotics) Professor of Policy and Planning METROPOLITAN REGIONS – Sciences TOKYO AND THE RUHR AREA How are new and old means of transport linked? • Age Simulation Suit GERT How do the various players in the transportation • Rickshaw (Initiative Radeln ohne Alter) Please register by November 14, 2016 Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST sector coordinate and cooperate with each other? • Cargo bike Dein-RUDOLF.de (in cooperation Friday, November 18, 2016 | 16.00 –20.00 h Stefanie Ridder, Event Management How do inhabitants cope with (and survive) the with Zentrum für Logistik & Verkehr, UDE), Hans-Werner Wehling Fraunhofer-InHaus-Zentrum growth in the volume of transport? How will fac- University of Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg | 47057 Duisburg • “Bicycle Highway Ruhr” – Radschnellweg Forsthausweg 1 tors such as structural economic change, the Professor of Geography – Geogra- T 0203 379-1945 Ruhr – RS 1 (Metropoleruhr). Campus Duisburg aging population, new technical developments phy of Old Industrialized Regions E [email protected] • Match the Maps Registration and Supporting Program and environmental needs change mobility in Venue: from 15.00 h metropolitan areas? Fraunhofer-InHaus-Zentrum Forsthausweg 1 | 47057 Duisburg Bus 933 or 924 to Universität or Bus 926 to Uni-Nord/Lotharstraße
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