REAL CORP 2008: Transport Hubs as Innovation Hubs, May 19-21 2008, Vienna International Airport

It is a pleasure to announce

REAL CORP 008: Mobility Nodes as Innovation Hubs
13th International Conference on Urban Planning in Information and
Knowledge Society

May 19th -21st 2008, Vienna International Airport
www.corp.at

Transport hubs are nerve centers of our modern mobile society and
rapidly become economic centers - the new "Airport Cities" are
remarkable examples - and of course geoinformation-technologies play a
key role in planning and maintainance of such structures.


Where many people come together information and knowledge is shared
and new ideas are created, and so airports, train stations, motorway
rests become knowledge- and innovation hubs.

The international conference REAL CORP 008 focuses on these 21st-
century-transport- and innovation-hubs that are exceptionally
challenging for urban and transport planning, architecture and real
estate development.

Some of the questions to be dealt with:

* How can the role of transport hubs as innovation hubs be
improved?
* Which technologies ensure the reliable functioning of the hubs
and what further improvement is needed?
* How can anticipatory planning ensure the sustainable development
of those structures?
* How can unmeant spatial developments be avoided and
environmental impacts be dealt with?

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The call for papers (reviewed und non-reviewed) is open, the deadlines
are

for REVIEWED PAPERS

* submission of abstracts until January 31st 2008
* full papers / draft until March 15th 2008
* print-ready papers until April 15th 2008

for NON-REVIEWED PAPERS

* submission of abstracts until February 29th 2008
* print-ready papers until March 31st 2008

General information on CORP-conferences:

* held annually since 1996, have become the biggest annual
conference on "Urban Development in Information and Knowledge Society"
* 450 participants from all over the world
* 100+ presentations and workshops, social program, exhibition
* experts and decision makers from private enterprises, politics,
science and administration
* all papers from 1996 on are published online at www.corp.at and
can be downloaded for free

I hope that this message is of interest for you and it would be great
if you could forward the message to other colleagues interested in the
subject.
It would even be better to welcome you to Vienna Airport in May 2008.
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Best regards,
Manfred Schrenk

CEO CEIT ALANOVA - Central European Institute of Technology,
Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information
Society

Am Concorde Park 2 / F, A-2320 Schwechat
fon +43 1 90360 1240 , fax +43 1 90360 1299
m.schrenk@ceit.at ________ www.ceit.at

Director CORP - Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning,
www.corp.at

Vice-President ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional
Planners, www.isocarp.org