EPTA Annual Conference 2002The EPTA Conference is an annual event hosted by the EPTA Presidency. In 2002, the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and technology (POST) hosted the conference in Westminster, London. Some 70 delegates from 18 different countries attended and observers came from as far afield as Japan and Canada.The EPTA conference provided an opportunity for Parliamentarians and officials from different countries to come together and share experiences and expertise in providing advice on science and technology issues to Parliaments. In 2002, the overarching theme of the conference was transport and mobility. By bringing people together, the conference also enabled people to network and make useful contacts that could inform their future work. Summary of presentations given at the conference (PDF files)Road traffic in 2020 (Tore Tennøe, Norwegian Board of Technology)The Networked Vehicle – Transport Telematics for Road and Rail (Katrin Schneeberger, Centre for Technology Assessment, Switzerland) Galileo: the European project on satellite navigation (Malcolm Harbour MEP, Scientific and Technological Options Assessment, European Parliament) New technologies, policy-making and parliament: the case of transportation (Alessandro De Franciscis MP, Committee for Scientific and Technological Assessment, Italy) Measures for a sustainable energy supply in the field of mobility (external HTML file) (Dr Reinhard Gruenwald, Office of Technology Assessment, Germany) Which problems do light railways solve? (Professor Pia Koskenoja, Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Urban mobility debates in Flanders: the need for participatory technology assessment at the local level (Dirk Holemans MP, Flemish Institute for Science and Technology Assessment) Summary of workshops at the conference: Public Trust and Science, Visions of the Future
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