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Invited Presentations

“Adelantos en la investigación del uso de suelo y la movilidad.” 2008. IV Congreso Internacional de Transporte Sustentable

Movilidad y Salud: de cara al futuro, Ciudad de México, World Trade Center, 27 de octubre.

“Mobility & Urban Development “AS IF” Kyoto Mattered: What Role for the Clean Development Mechanism?” 2008. MIT Industrial Liaison Program Future of Mobility Conference, 23 September.

“Instrumentos financieros y económicos para el manejo sostenible de la movilidad: hacia donde ‘se debe’ y hacia donde se mueven las ciudades.” 2008. Conferencia Internacional Andina sobre Movilidad Urbana Sostenible, Quito, Ecuado, 30 de julio.

“’AS IF’ Kyoto Mattered: Transportation and the Clean Development Mechanism.” 2008. University of Connecticut, Depts. of Geography and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Spring Graduate Transportation Seminar Series, 25 April.

“Mobility and Sustainable Cities.” 2008. Changing Cities: Celebrating 75 Years of Planning Better Futures at MIT, 4 April.

“La Planificación Integrada de Transporte y el Desarrollo Urbano.” 2008. Latin America Mayor’s Conference, Ash Institute and John F. Kennedy School of Government, 31 March.

“Responsive Urban Mobility in Innovative and Sustainable Regions.” 2008. Grenoble, Digital City-Region: Innovation et conception de l’espace habité contemporain, School of Architecture of Grenoble, France, 27 March.

“Transporte Público: Hacia la Reforma.” 2007. Primer Seminario para la Modernizacion del Transporte, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 7-8 July.

“The Clean Development Mechanism and Transportation.“ 2007. Urban Climate Change Research Network: An International Symposium, Columbia University, 11 May.

“Como involucrar el sector privado en el financiamiento de sistemas de transporte sustentable.” 2006. 2do Congreso Internacional de Transporte Sustentable, Ciudades en Movimiento, Ciudad de México, World Trade Center, 17 de octubre

“Indicadores de Transporte Sustentable y Metodologías de Evaluación: Antecedentes.” 2006. Plenary presentation at Clean Air Initiative-Latin America, Biannual Conference, Transporte Sustentable: Vínculos para Mitigar el Cambio Climático y Mejorar la Calidad del Aire, sponsored by the World Bank, São Paulo, 26 July.

“Transportation and City Design.” 2006. Invited Lecture at Tsinghua University, School of Architecture, Beijing, 30 June.

“Transporte y Uso de Suelo: Teoría y Ejemplos.” 2005. Presented at the International Conference, Transporte Urbano y Usos de Suelo, organized by the Peruvian National Environment Fund (FONAM) and sponsored by the World Bank, Lima, Perú, 1 December.

“Aspectos técnicos: Desde la perspectiva de movilidad y uso de suelo.” 2005. Presented at the International Forum, De las ciudades a las regiones - Desarrollo regional integrado en Bogotá – Cundinamarca, sponsored by the United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD), Bogotá, Colombia, 28 November.

“Evolving Metropolitan Structures and their Impact on Personal Mobility.” 2005. Presented at Critical Barriers to a Sustainable Energy Future, Technical Meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability, Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden, 8 November.

“Hacia una Ciudad “Pedaleable” y Saludable: Perspectiva desde Lejos.” 2005. Presented at the Seminar Chile en el Mundo, el Mundo en Chile, organized by Ciudad Viva for the Bicivilízate Campaign, Santiago, 2 November.

“Transportation Finance in the Mexico Mega-City Charting a Path towards Sustainability?” 2005. Presented at Workshop 126 Sustainable Transport in Latin America: From Theory to Practice, held at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January.

“Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: Exploring the Land Use-Transportation System in Santiago de Chile.” 2004. Presentation at the Conference on Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries, Monte Verità, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland, 2 November.

“Location Efficiency and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): The Potential for Reducing Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Changing Patterns of Urban Development.” 2004. Presentation at International Seminar on Transportation and the

Clean Development Mechanism, sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency, UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, 25 August.

“Dos Ciudades Latinoamericanas: Perspectives on and Prospects for Sustainable Urban Mobility.” 2004. Presentation at Sustainable Urban Transportation Panel Session at the Boston Social Forum, U. Mass-Boston, 25 July.

“Hacia una San Joaquín Sustentable: Resultados del Taller de Planificación Urbana.” 2004. Presentation at Expovivienda, Santiago, Chile, 30 April.

“Megacities, Developing Cities, and Sustainable Transportation.” 2003. Keynote Presentation at the Innovative Transport Strategies Working Group at the Conference Megacities III: Action Models and Strategic Solutions. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Schloss Eicholz, Sankt Augustin, Germany, November.

“Developing Country Cities: Towards a Sustainable Mobility?” 2003. Presentation at Sustainable Mobility Meeting, British Petroleum, London, October.

“Potentials for Integrating Travel Forecasting Models with Land Use & Emissions Models: Relevance to the Mexico City Project.” 2002. Seminar for the MIT Integrated Program on Local, Regional and Global Air Pollution, Cambridge, May.

“Urban Mobility in the United States: Trends, Challenges & Where We Stand.” 2002. Presented at the Working Group The Future of Mobility – Transportation, Annual Meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS), San Jose, Costa Rica, March.

Panel Session on Transportation and Urban Development, as part of Symposium on Transportation and Sustainability. 2002. Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January.

“Telecommunications and Travel.” 2001. Cooperative Mobility Program Sponsor Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, June.

“Transportation and Mobility.” 2000. Presented at the Third US-Mexico Joint Workshop, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June.

“Concessions for Urban Transportation Infrastructure in Developing Countries.” 1999. Presented at United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Workshop Deals on Wheels: Sustainable Transportation Initiatives in Developing Countries, San Salvador, El Salvador, July.

“Transporte, Mantenimiento, y Ciudades Sostenibles.” 1997. Presented at HABITAT Seminar, Organized by Coalition of Peruvian NGOs, Lima, Perú, October.

“Transporte Urbano, Economía, y Medio Ambiente 1997.” Presented at the IV Conferencia LAC de ONGs de Medio Ambiente Urbano, March.

“Transporte de Pasajeros y Medio Ambiente en Santiago de Chile.” 1996. Presented at the Seminar Transporte y Medio Ambiente, National Environment Council of Peru, Lima, August.

“Energía y Transporte.” 1996. Presented at the Segundo Taller Latinoamericano de Organizaciones no Gubernamentales Sobre Cambios Climáticos, Colonia, Uruguay, April.

“Sustainable Santiago: An Urban Transportation Vision.” 1995. Presented at the Cooperative Housing Foundation’s Workshop on Partnerships for Livable Urban Environments, Washington, DC, November.