International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport
International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport
The 18th conference of the International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (The Thredbo Series) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 September to 3 October 2024.
The Thredbo conference series has garnered a formidable reputation for being the premier international forum dedicated to the analysis and debate of competition and ownership issues in land passenger transport. This influential forum attracts high quality participation and delivers a large portfolio of impressive material synthesising developments not only from developed economies but increasingly from developing economies.
The conference series is directed towards a broad audience of industry players (government and public transport operators), policy makers, planners, decision makers on infrastructure and service operators, consultants, researchers, academics and students. The mix at Thredbo 17 was: Industry (17%), government (14%), consultants (5%), and academics (64%).
As with past conferences, Thredbo 18 will feature plenary sessions and a series of intensive workshops based around keynote papers and a series of resource papers providing a range of international perspectives on each issue.
| Sunday 29 September 2024 | ||
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| 4.00pm | Delegate Registration | Ground Floor, UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 6.00pm | Welcome Reception | Ground Floor, UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 8.00pm | End | |
| Monday 30 September 2024 | ||
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| 8.00am | Delegate Registration | Ground Floor, UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 9.00am | Opening of Conference | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 9.15am | Keynote Address (TBC) | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.00am | Morning Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.30am | Roundtable and Plenary Session | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 12.15pm | Workshop Rules | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 1.30pm | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 3.30pm | Afternoon Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 4.00pm | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 6.00pm | End | Free evening |
| Tuesday 1 October 2024 | ||
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| 9.00am | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.30am | Morning Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 11.00am | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 1.30pm | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 3.00pm | Afternoon Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 3.30pm | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 5.00pm | End | Free evening |
| Wednesday 2 October 2024 | ||
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| 9.00am | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.30am | Morning Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 11.00am | Workshop Sessions | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 1.30pm | Technical Tour | TBC |
| 4.30pm | Return to Protea Hotel | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 6.00pm | Conference Dinner | TBC |
| 9.00pm | End | |
| Thursday 3 October 2024 | ||
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| 9.00am | Keynote Speaker Presentation (TBC) or Roundtable #2 | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.00am | Morning Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 10.30am | Workshop Reports 1-4 | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 1.30pm | Workshop Reports 5 -7 | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 3.30pm | Afternoon Break | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 4.00pm | Michael Beesley Award and Presentation | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 5.00pm | Closing Remarks | UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre |
| 5.15pm | End | |
Perched between the ocean and the mountain, with a national park as its heart, Cape Town is the oldest city in South Africa and has a cultural heritage spanning more than 300 years. The unique topography of the region makes it easy to orientate oneself as long as you remember that with Table Mountain behind you and Robben Island before you, you are facing north, looking across Table Bay and up the west coast of Africa. It is in Cape Town that the Rainbow Nation really covers the spectrum. Between beautiful Cape Dutch homesteads, traditional dancers with painted faces performing in the streets, the smell of spicy Malay cooking and the taste of a well-made wine, this city will fill your senses. It has the top five national attractions in South Africa, including Table Mountain and the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, one of the city's main tourist attractions, offers the visitor a unique shopping and holiday experience on a scenic working harbour. Looking further offshore, visitors can take a boat ride to Robben Island, the former home of Nelson Mandela and several other political prisoners who fought against the apartheid government. The city has also recently developed tourism routes such as the Cape care route, which showcases sustainable development by taking tourists to destinations including a community-based bicycle workshop and a community weaving centre, and the Southern Line tourist train route between Cape Town and Simon's Town.
Sources: City of Cape Town, South African Tourism, Tourism Cape Town
The conference will be held at the Breakwater Campus situated in the heart of Cape Town at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The campus incorporates an UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre with accommodation at the Protea Breakwater Lodge, a historic 19th century building.
The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Transport Studies at Cape Town University in conjunction with the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney Business School.
