final program



06. September 2009


14:00 - 16:00Early Registration (Vienna City Hall, Entry Lichtenfelsgasse 2, 1010 Vienna)
16:30 - 23:30Twin City Liner Tour (Vienna-Bratislava-Vienna)


07. September 2009



08:00 - 09:00 REGISTRATION (Grand Staircas II, Mezzanine)
  
09:30 - 10:00OPENING SESSION
• Moderator: Otto Schwetz (President, PIANC Austria)
• Karl Hora, Chairman of the committee for urban development, traffic and transport
• Eric van den Eede, President, PIANC International
• Terrance "Rock" Salt, PIANC USA, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army - Civil Works
  
10:00 - 12:30PLENARY SESSION
• Moderator: Manfred Seitz (Managing Director, via donau)
• Pawel Stelmaszczyk, Head of Unit on Logistics, Co-modality, Inland Waterways, Motorways of the Sea & Marco Polo, European Commission - DG TREN
• Herbert Stepic, CEO Raiffeisen International
• Bernd T๖rkel, Head of Division Inland Waterway Navigation, Ministry of Transport, Germany
• Daniel Mecklenborg, Chairman, Waterways Council, Inc.; SVP Ingram Barge Co.
• Robert Plymale, CEO Rahall Transportation Institute – Senator of West Virginia
• Bruce Lambert, Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies U.S.
  
12:30 - 14:30INDUSTRY EXHIBITION & LUNCH
  
14:30 - 16:15PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
A1
Financing of waterway infrastructure
A2
Framework and Development of ITS in waterborne transportation
A3
Success stories of transportation services on inland waterways I I
A4
Prospects for economic development of inland waterway transport


16:15 - 16:30Break


16:30 - 18:15PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
B1
Efficient operation of waterway infrastructure
B2
Success stories of transportation services on inland waterways II
B3
Status and Implementation of River Information Services
B4
Future of Education and Training in Inland Navigation


20:00GALA DINNER


08. September 2009



09:00 - 10:45PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
C1
Ports - intermodal nodes for efficient logistic chains I
C2
Electronic Navigational Charts for inland navigation (Inland ENC)
C3
Inland Navigation Policy as driving force for a more sustainable transport system
C4
Climate Change


10:45 - 11:00Break


11:00 - 12:45PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
D1
New developments in ship technology
D2
Development trends in the river cruise industry
D3
Benchmarks in the field of performance measurement
D4
Ports - intermodal nodes for efficient logistic chains II


12:45 – 14:30INDUSTRY EXHIBITION & LUNCH
  
14:30 – 17:30PLENARY SESSION
• Moderator: Ronald Barazon
• Helen Brohl, Committee on Marine Transportation – U.S. DOT
• Oleg Schachmardanov, Federal Agency for Sea- and River Navigation, Russia
• Cesare Bernabei, TEN Coordination for Inland Waterways
• Erhard Busek, Coordinator Southeast European Cooperative Initiative SECI, Austria
• Representative of the Ministry for Transport, Austria
  
17:30 – 18:00CLOSING SESSION
• Otto Schwetz, President, PIANC Austria
• Terrance "Rock" Salt, PIANC USA, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Civil Corps
• Reinhard Pfliegl, Austria Tech


09. September 2009


Technical Tours 1 or 2



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Technical exhibition:
cargo shipping, ports, services: September 07 - 08 2009
(only for participants of the congress)


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Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is closed now. Thank you for your interest and your many papers!
Listed below please find the Template for the Final Papers.


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Guidelines for paper submission

The official congress language is English. Papers not submitted in English will automatically be rejected.

Submission deadline of papers is 29th May 2009. For submitting please provide following information:
• Draft paper title
• Topic
• Full contact details of the Author
• Paper abstract (10-12 lines)
• Draft paper: min. 3, max. 7 pages

Authors whose draft papers have been selected must submit their final paper online by the end of July 2009.

After notification of the selected papers at the end of July 2009, speakers and moderators are requested to register and pay accordingly for the congress. Speakers and moderators will receive a reduced registration fee.



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Downloads:
Paper Submission Form (doc, 170 kB)
Call for Papers - Information & Deadlines (pdf, 150 kB)
Template for Final Papers (doc)
FINAL PROGRAM (pdf, 329 kB)