Sustainable Transport Day 2011

Transport alone is responsible for one third of the planet’s CO2 emissions. It is also an important component in many companies’ operations, in some cases representing a quarter of their carbon footprint.

The day’s objective is to share and pool expertise and experience in the area of sustainable transport, with three roundtables discussions on:

• Eco-mobility and the daily commute.
• The greenest trip is a trip without travel: utopian dream or tomorrow’s reality?
• Innovations and trends.

Sustainable Transport Day will be repeated each year in June, with the goal of informing French companies and employees and raising their awareness.

8:30 a.m.: Welcome /9:00 – 9:30 a.m.: “CO2, there’s no turning back”

Opening plenary session with Patrick Ollier, Minister in charge of relations with the French parliament and Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison.

The discussions will focus on resources for facilitating green commuting, including telecommuting, remote e-mail access, carpooling, car sharing and eco-mobility solutions. They will also cover related measures and services that can encourage employees to embrace these resources and drive change within organizations.
Participants
Fabienne Herlaut, President of Fonds Ecomobilité Partenaires (SNCF – French national railways)
Bruno Marzloff, Sociologist with mobility think-tank Groupe Chronos
Patricia Varnaison-Revolle, Head of the Sustainable Transport Department at the research center for networks, transport, urban planning and public buildings (CERTU), part of the French Ministry of Ecology
Gildas Besnou, Head of Marketing at Arval BNP Paribas
Francesco Serra, Area Sales Vice-President, EMEA - West (France & BeNeLux), Polycom (telecommuting)
The discussion will conclude with a five-minute videoconference with Brian Hansen, Transport Manager for the City of Copenhagen, speaking live from Denmark.

Roundtable led by Marcel Levy, Chief Editor of Déplacement Pro, on the topic of business travel.
The discussions will focus on videoconferencing and other non-travel solutions, mobility credits, and intermodal travel (rail, air, etc.).
Participants
Lionel Guerin, CEO of Transavia and Chairman of Fédération Nationale de l’Aviation Marchande (FNAM)
Thierry Koskas, Head of Renault’s Electric Vehicle Program
Franck Gervais, CEO of Thalys International
Agnès Rambaud, Founding Partner of consultancy Des Enjeux et des Hommes
Philippe Monfort, Managing Director, Orange Business Services Solutions Image
Olivier Laguitton, Founder of R-CO2
The discussion will conclude with a five-minute videoconference with Gary Rider, President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Polycom.

Roundtable led by Dominique Pialot, Green Business page reporter for La Tribune, on the topic of innovations in resources (airplanes, electric vehicles, etc.) and services (mobility credits, mobility convenience, etc.). The discussions will focus on ideas that should lead to tangible solutions in the short, medium and long term. Proposed avenues include:

• A qualitative leap forward in public transport (vehicles, routing, etc.)
• Upstream services in the travel chain.
• Innovations that eliminate roadblocks to the use of alternatives to cars.

Participants
Jean Perrot, Head of Institutional Relations at EADS R&T
Serge Yoccoz, Strategy and Planning Director at Renault
François Bellanger, Founder of Transit City/Urban & Mobile Think Tank
Gabriel Plassat, Transport and Mobility Unit (STM), Sustainable Cities and Regions Department (DVTD) of the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME)
Laurent Meillaud (car of the future)

Dominique Dron, Commissioner for Sustainable Development at the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Transport will officially announce National Sustainable Transport Day.

• Agora Fonctions
• Arval
• Covoiturage.fr
• Ekodev
• Microsoft
• Orange Business Services.
• Polycom
• Renault
• Schneider Electric