Annex: Outline Visit Programmes
VISIT TO USA 11 - 16 JANUARY 2004
Monday 12 January
Washington. Meetings with
Dr Jeffrey Runge, Administrator, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
Mary Peters, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration
Emil Frankel, Assistant Secretary for Transportation,
and Linda Lawson, Director, Office of Transportation Policy Development,
US Department Transportation
Annette Sandberg, Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration
Reception hosted by Tony Brenton, Deputy Head of
Mission, British Embassy
The Committee missed this day's programme as
their flight was diverted to Iceland.
Tuesday 13 January
0900 - 1030 Meeting with Bob Dixon, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Energy
Flight to Detroit
15.00 - 17.30 Visit North American International
Auto Show, Detroit
19.00 Dinner hosted by HM Consul-General, Chicago,
for automotive industry guests, (including analysts, research
institutes e.g. Toyota Technical Centre; Daimler Chrysler; Centre
for Automotive Research)
Wednesday 14 January
The morning was spent in meetings with Ford and General
Motors.
The rest of the day spent in travel to Sacramento
Thursday 15 January
am: Visit to CALTRANS (the California Transport
Authority)
Lunch: Working Lunch with representatives of
the California Air Resources Board (responsible for the zero emissions
vehicles mandate which is driving the introduction of clean cars
in California)
pm: Visit to California Fuel Cell partnership
Friday 16 January
am: Visit to California Partners for Advanced
Transit and Highways (PATH), University of California at Berkeley
VISIT TO KOREA AND JAPAN 18 - 22 OCTOBER 2004
Monday 18 October
Embassy briefing
Meeting with Ministry of Construction & Transport
officials
Meeting with Transport Minister
Meeting and lunch with European Union Chamber of
Commerce in Korea (Logistics and Transport Committee)
Visit Olympic stadium
Tuesday 19 October
Travel to World Cup Stadium by subway
Briefing on World Cup Stadium, transport policy and
transport management measures used during the 2002 World Cup
Meeting with Mayor of Seoul and officials about Seoul
public transport and transport measures during major sporting
events
Visit to and demonstration of Seoul Metropolitan
Government Bus Management System Centre
Press interviews
Reception with local transport and other experts
Wednesday 20 October
Travel to and between appointments on KTX High
Speed Train
Meeting with Acting Administrator, Korean National
Railroad (KNR)
Briefing on urban Maglev at Korea Institute of Machinery
and Materials (KIMM)
Briefing and Plant Tour at rolling stock manufacturer
Rotem
Thursday 21 October
Briefing and tour of Incheon Airport Free Zone (Integrated
freight handling and non-customs duties area)
Travel to Japan
Friday 22 October
Breakfast briefing meeting at Embassy
Briefing from Japanese academic expert on "third
sector" rural railways
Briefing, tour and test ride at JR Central high speed
Maglev centre
Return to Tokyo by standard intercity train
"Future of Rail" dinner and discussion
with guests from Japan's railway sector
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