Visitors Expertise Worldwide (TTi) and Kapsch TrafficCom are proud to announce that they’ll host a groundbreaking webinar, dwell from Kapsch TrafficCom headquarters in Vienna, bringing collectively main consultants face-to-face in a studio to sort out considered one of city society’s most urgent challenges: visitors congestion.
Registration is now open for the free on-line occasion, titled The Way forward for Motion: Rethinking Congestion within the Age of Sensible Cities, which is able to happen on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 3:00pm CET (2:00pm BST, 9am EDT). The one-hour panel dialogue will probably be streamed globally and have a dwell Q&A session with the digital viewers, who can have the prospect to place their inquiries to the business consultants.
Kapsch TrafficCom HQ in Vienna, Austria. Picture ©Kapsch TrafficCom
Throughout the webinar specialist audio system from Kapsch TrafficCom and researchers from the famend Comillas Pontifical College in Spain will discover research-backed options for managing city congestion.
One space for focus will probably be Kapsch TrafficCom’s 2023 strategic partnership with Comillas Pontifical College, which established a Chair for Sensible and Sustainable Mobility to advance smarter and extra eco-friendly mobility options.
Vienna skyline panorama at sundown. ©AdobeStock
The panel will study three main devices cities make use of to cut back congestion: regulating amount by low and 0 emission zones, implementing focused pricing administration by tolls, and incentivizing modal shift towards public transportation. Attendees will achieve insights into successfully utilizing amount devices, strategic pricing administration, modal shift incentives, and the facility of capability focus.
Meet the presenters
Pedro Linares
Pedro Linares serves as Professor of Industrial Engineering on the ICAI Faculty of Engineering and researcher on the Institute for Expertise Analysis (IIT) at Comillas Pontifical College. He holds positions as affiliate researcher at MIT CEEPR and College of Cambridge EPRG, senior fellow at Esade EcPol, director of the Worldwide Doctoral Faculty of Comillas Pontifical College, and editor-in-chief of The Power Journal. His analysis focuses on the connection between power, economics, and the surroundings, particularly sustainable power, transportation, and industrial coverage evaluation and modeling.
Natalia Collado Van-Baumberghen
Natalia Collado Van-Baumberghen is pursuing her PhD on the ICAI Faculty of Engineering whereas conducting analysis on the Institute for Analysis in Expertise (IIT), at Comillas Pontifical College. Her doctoral thesis examines demand-side administration’s function in transport sector decarbonization, significantly financial devices. As a quantitative economist specializing in regulation and coverage analysis for power and transportation sectors, she beforehand labored as a analysis economist at EsadeEcPol, main consulting initiatives for establishments together with the European Funding Financial institution.
Alfredo Escriba
Alfredo Escriba is chief expertise officer at Kapsch TrafficCom AG, and brings over 20 years of expertise in technological innovation and enterprise development. Since becoming a member of the Govt Board in 2019, he has reworked the corporate’s portfolio towards next-generation visitors and tolling options. Beforehand serving as govt vice chairman for the City Visitors & Mobility Administration Resolution Heart, he joined Kapsch TrafficCom by the 2016 acquisition of Schneider Electrical’s transportation enterprise. He holds grasp’s levels from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Texas A&M College, plus an MBA from Instituto Argentino de la Empresa in Buenos Aires.
A primary for TTi
Tom Stone
“I’m very excited to be chairing what guarantees to be an interesting dialogue with Pedro, Natalia and Alfredo, wherein we are going to get to the very coronary heart of one of many main issues of contemporary city dwelling – visitors congestion,” says Tom Stone, editor of TTi. “Throughout the roundtable session we are going to have a look at the newest applied sciences and strategies being employed to sort out this drawback, in addition to taking questions from the web viewers in a dwell Q&A.
“It’s significantly thrilling, and a primary for TTi, to be internet hosting this roundtable face-to-face with all individuals, dwell from Kaspch TrafficCom HQ in Vienna. Cameras will stream the occasion on our webinar platform for our on-line viewers to view from wherever they’re on this planet. All they need to do is register without spending a dime and log in at 3pm CET (2pm within the UK and 9am in New York). It’s definitely one to not be missed.”
Registration for the free webinar is now open, providing professionals worldwide the chance to have interaction immediately with main consultants in sensible metropolis mobility options.
