Workshop 2
24-25 January 2008, PragueTransport and the Environment
Barriers to the take-up of more efficient transport and logistics planning and training and awareness raising methods
ETTAR (Environmental Technologies, Training and Awareness-Raising) has been established to identify and assess training needs, methods and activities for the wider use of environmental technologies in the transportation sector. ETTAR runs from April 2007 to September 2008 comprising three workshops and a final conference. ETTAR is a coordinated action plan under the 6th EU Framework Programme.
The Workshop will deal with the better use of intelligent logistics planning (information technologies) and management as a means to reduce the negative environmental impact of freight transport. The Workshop will lay its focus on the related awareness raising and training for and within the industries concerned. For this reason, it will bring together the different actors in the freight transport field having a stake in the supply chain, such as producers of goods (transport buyers) and logistics companies (transport sellers). Other stakeholders include transport policy makers, technology developers and urban planners. The workshop will examine and review approaches to spread and enhance knowledge and awareness of logistics information technology (technology training) throughout the logistics supply chain.
The activities of industrial networks gathering and diffusing this knowledge/awareness will be discussed as well as the potential establishment of a working group beyond ETTAR. This working group is supposed to describe tools and training activities, common projects and forums that help maintain and strengthen a constructive dialogue.
