WATCH: Working Group 2 “The Automobile”
INRETS, Arcueil, July 1st, 10 am to 5 pm
(SAKURA members invited to attend) 

1. Welcome and Introduction of participants

2. Overview of WG 2 and specific research topics

3. Papers on land use, car ownership and travel behaviour (T5)

• Joyce Dargay & Mark Hanly (University College London): "Effects of land use patterns on car ownership and travel behaviour in Great Britain"

• Linda Christensen (Danish Transport Research Institute): "Land Use and travel behaviour in the Copenhagen area"

• Anne Aguilera (INRETS): "Urban polycentrism and car use"

• Jon Inge Lian (Institute for Transport Economics (TOI), Norway): “Urban sprawl and transport - the case of Oslo, a presentation of research activities at TOI”

4. Papers on sensitivity to fuel price and taxation (T2)

• Tuuli Jarvi (VTT, Finland): “Changes in car fleet characteristics and car taxation in Finland”

• Uwe Kunert, Bastian Chlond and Dirk Zumkeller (DIW and IFV ? University of Karlsruhe): “Taxation of car ownership and use in Germany”

5. Contributions of participants to other WG topics

6. Finalisation of research topics

7. Next meeting & suggestions for papers

8. Any other business

SAKURA Meeting (French-Japanese collaboration)
INRETS, July 2nd, 10am - 5pm
(WATCH members invited to attend)

 Papers to be presented:

• Toshiyuki Yamamoto (Nagoya University): "Inter-Temporal and Inter-Regional Analysis of Household Cars and Motorcycles Ownership Behaviours in Asian Big Cities" (Presentation, Manuscript)

• Roger Collet (INRETS-DEST): “Car ownership in France: a Bayesian analysis on panel data” (Presentation)

• Junyi Zhang (Hiroshima University): "Development of Car Ownership and Use Model Considering Intra-household Interaction" (Presentation)

• Kuniaki Sasaki (University of Yamanashi): "A study on the influences of Newly Opened Highway to car use and daily activities - A case study of activity diary panel data of South Kyoto area" (Presentation)

• Akli Berri (INRETS-DEST): “Urban sprawl and household car traffic growth in France: projections to the years 2010 to 2020” (Presentation, Manuscript)

• Hiromu Sakai (Institute of Community Revitalization Research): “A study of utilization and the reservation system of car sharing” (Presentation)