7th PTV Vision UK User Group Meeting
Summary
IntroductionTraining
User Group Meeting
How to become a presenter
Social event
How to book a place
Location/Times
Directions
Car Parks
Hotels
Contacts
Major updates to this page
Main documents at a glance
Online registrationPDF registration
UPDATE-070327: The programme
UPDATE-070330: The leaflet
UPDATE-070406: The abstracts
Introduction
PTV organizes this event on April 19th and 20th 2007 to which you are invited. The User Group Meeting, which is part of a series of worldwide events advertised here, pertains mainly to the VISSIM microscopic traffic simulator and the VISUM strategic modeling software plus related tools (www.ptv-vision.com ). It will address state-of-the-art modelling work by the users, development plans by PTV and more specifically the latest new versions of the software. People with no previous experience would find it useful too.
The current page will be kept up-to-date with information on the event as the preparation progresses. To help tracking the changes, the most important ones will be tagged with the date in the format UPDATE-YYMMDD (YY=year; MM=month; DD=day). At the bottom of this web page there is the list of those major updates.
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Training
Prior to the user group meeting parallel training classes will be offered on April 19th 2007. The number of participants per course will be 5 (minimum) and about 20 (maximum). Staff from PTV-Karlsruhe (Germany), PTV-UK and Faber Maunsell will run the courses, possibly with more than 1 trainer per session. Indicative topics for the training are:
At this stage we plan to have all 5 courses. If you cannot book your chosen course because the entry in the book form is not available anymore, please don't hesitate to contact us anyway as often places can free up before the event.
To cover costs, the charge is £ 180 for the Training (£ 120 for students, including PHDs). Bookings will be made on a first-come-first-served basis.
User Group Meeting
The 7th UK PTV Vision User Group Meeting will be held at Imperial College London on April 20th 2007. UPDATE-070327: A new draft programme is available here. Abstracts of the presentations will follow soon.Should you wish to access presentation outlines etc. from previous years, they are reachable from the links at the top of this page.
We calculate that to cover the costs of the User Group Meeting, which include lunch, refreshments and documentation, a fee of £ 180 will be required (£ 100 for students/PHDs and presenters, first author). The maximum number of participants is set to 100.
How to become a presenter at the UK PTV Vision User Group Meeting
Presentations are invited from a variety of working backgrounds, be they consultancies, public sector or University. If you have applied VISSIM or VISUM (or tools linked to those) to any problem that could be of interest to other participants, please get in touch.We will need to have a title accompanied by an abstract of 200-300 words by March 9th 2007. Presenters should then submit their papers and/or handout slides by March 30th.
The compliance with these deadlines will enable us to prepare the documentation to be circulated at the User Group Meeting well in advance (papers and/or handout slides not received on time might not be part of the proceedings and/or excluded from the programme). Presentations will last 15-25 minutes, with some time for questions at the end.
Social event
A social event is organized on the evening of April 19th in London. There is an entry for it in the booking form. Please let us know if you wish to participate. We ask those attending to register because we need to secure the place. We expect to pay in the range of 25-30 pounds.UPDATE-070316: For the social event this year we have chosen "Spacca Napoli" (101 Dean Street, London, W1D 3TG; Telephone: 0871 0757853; map; closest tube station: Tottenham Court Road; some reviews). The meeting will be at the restaurant at 19:45.
How to book a place (User Group Meeting and/or Training)
Please either use the following online form or fax a completed registration form to PTV, Market Development at: +49/721/9651-562. Special requirements such as, for example, 'vegetarian meal', 'allergy to nuts' or 'wish to learn how to model road user charging' should be noted in the remarks field.An invoice will be sent to you by email upon registration. Should you not be able to pay by the deadline of April 16th 2007, please bring either cash or a cheque made payable to "PTV AG" at the venue.
Location/Times
The event will take place at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine - Exhibition Road - London SW7 2BU (map ). The training (April 19th) will be held in the Skempton Building (building 28 in this map). The 5 classes are allocated as follows:- VISSIM beginners: room 609;
- VISSIM advanced: room 208;
- VISUM beginners: room 610;
- VISUM advanced 1: room 207;
- VISUM advanced 2 - Python: room 227.
Directions
If travelling by metro from King’s Cross St. Pancras, the Piccadilly line can be used to get to South Kensington, which is about 500 m from Imperial College. This trip requires about 40 minutes (see this map for more details).Car Parks
If parking in the vicinity of the event is required, the contact details for the closest National Car Parks are as follows:- London and Country Car Parks (T) 0207 581 3371; 396 Kingston House North, Princes Gate, SW7
- Royal Garden Hotel Car Park (T) 020 7938 1101; Kensington High Street
- NJA Limited (T) 020 7589 9815; 244 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
Hotels
Details of hotels can be found here: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7].Contacts
- PTV Newcastle: Sergio Grosso (Info@ptv-newcastle.co.uk); 1, Abbotsford Terrace – Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3AD, UK tel.: +44 (0) 787 9442480; fax: +44 (0) 191 2814356
- PTV AG: Agathe Kominek ( Agathe.Kominek@ptv.de;) tel: +49 (0) 721 9651 332; fax: +49 (0) 721 9651 562
- Faber Maunsell: Andy McGregor (Andy.McGregor@fabermaunsell.com); tel.: +44 (0) 131 311 4000; fax: +44 (0) 131 311 4090.
Major updates to this page
UPDATE-070406: The abstracts.UPDATE-070409: Slightly reorganized the contents of training.
UPDATE-070330: The leaflet.
UPDATE-070327: The programme is now available.
UPDATE-070316: Decided on location for social event