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Lisbon, September 2007

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International colloquium
Survey, demonstrators
Cultural events

In the frame of the european mobility week

Under the patronage of Jacques Barrot,
Vice-President of the European Commission

And of Michel Delebarre,
President of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union

In partnership with the city of Lisbon, Veolia Transport and the airline TAP

With the support of the Gulbenkian Foundation

The Festival event program is supported by a network of cultural and scientific partners, businesses, and public or private institutions.
L'Institut pour la ville en mouvement remercie pour leurs images :
Les correspondants de Peugeot en Afrique du Sud, France, Japon, Mexique et Russie. Chand Nirankari à New York. Federico Graf à Buenos Aires. Hou Mingming et Liu Zhao à Shanghaï. Remerciements à Andrès Borthagaray, Simone Duarte et José Manuel Viegas.

It is part of the collective imagination of our cities, of the colour of the city, of the traveller’s memories. The driver is sometimes the first person you meet when exploring a city, a kind of ambassador. A figure in our day-to-day lives, a character in the movies, the taxi driver plays an essential role both in urban travel and in our representations of the city. With an international conference on technical, organizational and institutional innovations relating to the taxi; a survey in France and abroad on the new roles of the taxi in urban mobility and the organization in September of this year of a taxi festival with cultural and performance events involving professionals and the public, the City on the Move Institute is keen to highlight the potential resources of this method of transportation. Some 200 urban transportation researchers, professionals and experts, together with municipal representatives from cities in 21 countries took part in the conference with the aim of opening up and and contributing to the debate on role of the taxi as an inherent component of sustainable urban mobility.

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International scientific and technical conference
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
September 20-21, 2007

Under the Management of Richard Darbéra, a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS / LATTS) and José Manuel Viegas, Professor at the Lisbon Higher Technical Institute.

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The festival

A festival of film at the cinema library, an international short-film competition (portuguese version) in partnership with FIKE at the Franco-Portuguese Institute, a taxi rank design competition for architecture and design students in Portugal, three photographic exhibitions at the municipal archives, a photo exhibition at the FNAC, focus on Strip Cartoons at the New French Bookshop, readings at the Ler Devagar bookshop, personal stories at the Cabaret Maxime, the TAXI + competition for Lisbon's cab drivers, theatrical shows, A Festival opening party in Santiago Alquimista...


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International survey on taxi use

Conducted by the GfK Institute in partnership with CIAO and IVM, this comparative survey with actual and potential taxi users aims to describe their expectations, identify the obstacles to greater use, and analyse new roles for the taxi in mobility systems. The aim is to identify and suggest urgent measures to match changing needs and to help implement the resources required to achieve this.
A survey carried out in May 2007 with 3000 actual or potential cab users in five big cities: Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, New York and Paris. GfK will present the findings of the survey to the press in Paris, then to those attending the scientific conference in Lisbon in September 2007.

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Taxis of tomorrow

Which of us, when travelling for business or pleasure, has not dreamed of using a taxi journey to find out about the city or obtain information on events, of relaxing to our favourite radio station, or getting news on the latest international events?
These are just a few examples of the services built into the demonstration vehicles constructed by PSA Peugeot Citroën in collaboration with Orange and Optimus as part of the “taxis of the future” programme. Through a 20 inch screen, a special amplifier for the rear seats and a “CarBox”, passengers can enjoy a range of audio and video content: several Internet radio and TV programmes (in the language of their choice!), online video games, access to e-mail, connection of portable music devices, WiFi access points, etc.
Taxi drivers are not left out of the loop, since they have the latest innovations in telematic systems, with Citroen’s NaviDrive and Peugeot’s RT4 technology. In addition to the audio, 3-D navigation and hands-free telephone functions, these systems include an emergency call function and real-time traffic information accessible through an Internet Webcam viewer.
As the two demonstration vehicles show, the latest innovations in multimedia and telecommunications systems, and in particular high-speed 3G/3G+ networks, offer unprecedented prospects for exciting new developments.


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