Study Visit by delegation from Ministry of Transport, China

Director-General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Transport, China (view profile)

A delegation from the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) will visit Cambridge on Wednesday 16 November 2011, as part of this year's working group meeting between the MOT and the Department for Transport under a UK/China Memorandum of Understanding on transport cooperation.

The visiting party will consist of 9 people:

  • Mr JU Chengzhi, Director-General, Department of International Cooperation MOT
  • Mr WANG Hongwei, Director, Department of International Cooperation, MOT
  • Ms HAN Xiaoming, Official, Department of International Cooperation, MOT
  • Mr SHI Shiwu, Deputy Director-General, Waterborne Transport Research Institute, MOT Academy
  • Ms TANG Hui, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Highway, MOT Academy
  • Ms LI Guanyu, Consultant (Interpreter), Department of International Cooperation, MOT
  • Mr Paul Lin, BYD Corporate Spokesman, Head of Global Marketing; Business Director of BYD Europe BV
  • Mr Graham Pendlebury, Director of Greener Transport and International, DfT
  • Mr Marvin Antah, International Cooperation team, DfT

The visit organiser is Dr Nick Gray, Associate Adviser of the Centre for Science and Policy (contact number: 07880 741538), assisted on the day by Mr Yanbo Jia (research student in the Department of Engineering)

  • 16 Nov 2011 09:30 – 10:45

    Meeting with Jeremy Smith, Transport Strategy Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council

    Management of transport difficulties created by affluence and high transport demand in a constrained historic environment

    Shire Hall, Castle Street, Cambridge

    Directions to next meeting: taxis will pick up outside Shire Hall at 10:45

  • 16 Nov 2011 11:00 – 11:45

    Meeting with Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

    dc29@cam.ac.uk

    Presentation to cover developments in heavy vehicle technology for improving safety, productivity and sustainability

    Cambridge University Engineering Department (Oakley Room 1)

  • 16 Nov 2011 11:50 – 12:20

    Meeting with Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Service and Support Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

    dcm@eng.cam.ac.uk

    Presentation to cover tracking technologies and applications to transport

    Cambridge University Engineering Department (Oakley Room 1)

    Directions to next meeting: taxis will pick up from outside Engineering Department at 12:20

  • 16 Nov 2011 12:30 – 14:00

    Meeting with Professor Frank Kelly, Professor of the Mathematics of Systems, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

    f.p.kelly@statslab.cam.ac.uk

    Lunch in Mountbatten Room, Christ's College, hosted by the Master of the College, Professor Frank Kelly, who will join the delegation from approximately 13:00 to 13:45.

    Professor Peter Landshoff and Yanbo Jia will also join for lunch.

    Mountbatten Room, Christ's College (in the front right-hand corner of First Court; turn left through the archway at Porter's Lodge)

    After lunch there will be an opportunity to walk through the historic centre of Cambridge before taxi pick-up at 14:45. Yanbo Jia will accompany the group.

  • 16 Nov 2011 14:00 – 14:45

    Visit to Historic City Centre

    An opportunity to walk through the historic centre of Cambridge, with views of King's College Chapel and other landmarks

    Taxis will pick up from the north end of King's Parade, near Great St Mary's church, at 14:45

  • 16 Nov 2011 15:00 – 15:30

    Meeting with Professor Alastair Beresford, Professor of Computer Security and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge and Dr Richard Gibbens, Professor in Network Modelling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

    arb33@cam.ac.uk Richard.Gibbens@cl.cam.ac.uk

    Presentation to cover transport monitoring, data sharing and applications

    Computer Laboratory (Room SS03)

  • 16 Nov 2011 15:35 – 16:05

    Meeting with Professor Peter Landshoff, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

    PVL@DAMTP.CAM.AC.UK

    Presentation to cover transport information, with particular reference to the East of England

    Computer Laboratory (Room SS03)

  • 16 Nov 2011 16:10 – 16:40

    Meeting with Dr Adam Boies, Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

    aboies@gmail.com

    Presentation to cover infrastructure, energy efficient cities and transport

    Computer Laboratory (Room SS03)

  • 16 Nov 2011 16:45 – 17:15

    Meeting with Dr Patrick Palmer, Reader and Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

    prp@eng.cam.ac.uk

    Presentation to cover optimising ship propulsion systems for reduced energy consumption, and other relevant research

    Computer Laboratory (Room SS03)

    Taxis will pick up from Computer Lab at 17:15 and take the visiting party to Cambridge Station