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Conferences & Seminars

(2010) "The Corporate Geography of Global Terminal Operators", with T. Notteboom, forthcoming, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2010 Conference, Lisbon (Portugal).
(2010) "The Financialization of the Terminal and Port Industry: Rediscovering Risk", with T. Notteboom and T. Pallis, forthcoming, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2010 Conference, Lisbon (Portugal).
(2010) "Green Logistics: Breaking the Paradoxes", forthcoming, 2010 Army National Guard Logistics Management Seminar, Louisville (USA).
(2010) "Round Table on Innovation and Visions for the Future of Transport", forthcoming, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Transport Forum, Paris (France).
(2009) “The Governance of Intermodal Terminal Assets” and “Logistics and Terminalization”, Advanced Port Economics Seminar, University of Antwerp, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA), Antwerp (Belgium).
(2009) "The First Crisis of Globalization: Legacy Scenarios for Maritime Container Trade and Ports", Terminal Operators Conference Americas, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
(2009) "Gateways, Inland Ports and Logistics Zones in North America", Operations and Logistics Seminar, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).
(2009) "La façade atlantique et l’interface maritime / terrestre nord américaine", Séminaire EMAR-INRETS, Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, Laboratoire Systemes Productifs, Logistique, Organisation des Transports et Travail, Paris (France).
(2009) "Moving Inside the Box: The Containerization of Commodities", International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2009 Conference, Copenhagen (Denmark).
(2009) "Economic Cycles and the Organizational and Geographical Attributes of Global Value Chains: Is the Pendulum Changing Direction?", with T. Notteboom, Integrating Maritime Transport in Value Chains Workshop, Montreal (Canada).
(2009) "Foreland-Based Regionalization: Integrating Intermediate Hubs with Port Hinterlands", with T. Notteboom, International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA 2009), Hong Kong (China).
(2009) "Poles Logistiques et Ports Intérieurs: Enjeux Nord Américains" (Logistic Poles and Inland Ports: North American Challenges), Colloque de l’Association Québécoise du Transport Routier, Montreal (Canada).
(2009) Participation to the workshop "The Future of Human Mobility and its Impacts on Aviation 2020-2025", Embraer Corporation, São José dos Campos (Brazil).
(2009) “Transportation, Supply Chains and the First Crisis of Globalization”, keynote speech, International Multimodal Conference, Windsor (Canada).
(2009) "Les ports intérieurs et les pôles logistiques: Montréal dans le contexte nord américain" (Inland Ports and Logistics Poles: Montreal in the North American Context), Colloque « En route vers un pole logistique », Conférence Régionale des Élus de la Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent, Vaudreuil (Canada).
(2009) "Inland Terminals, Logistic Clusters and Global Commodity Chains: Looking Into the Eye of the Storm", 5th Annual Supply Chain Connections Conference, Winnipeg, (Canada).
(2008) “The Governance of Intermodal Terminal Assets” and “Logistics and Terminalization”, Advanced Port Economics Seminar, University of Antwerp, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA), Antwerp (Belgium).
(2008) "Transport Trends and Inland Hubs", 3rd European Conference and Exhibition on Inland Terminals, Paris (France).
(2008) "Port Regionalization: Towards a New Phase in Pacific Asian Port Development", 2008 International Logistics Forum, Incheon (Korea).
(2008) "Terminals and Logistics: The Terminalization Thesis", The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), Seoul (Korea).
(2008) "Transportation and Oil Prices: From Modal Shift to Supply Chain Propagation", New Jersey Department of Transportation, In-House Lecture Series, Trenton (USA).
(2008) "Freight Distribution Clusters: The North American Setting", Roundtable on Logistic Poles, Government of Quebec, Montreal (Canada).
(2008) "Hanging by a Thread? Transportation Challenges to the Efficiency of Global Value Chains", Canada’s Asia-pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative Workshop "Towards a Value-Added Strategy", Government of Canada, Transport Canada, Vancouver (Canada).
(2008) "Gateways and Corridors: Divergence along the North American Eastern Seaboard", Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Halifax (Canada).
(2008) "The Terminalization of Supply Chains: Assessing Terminals within Freight Distribution Systems" and "The Terminalization of Supply Chains: North American and European Perspectives", joint presentation with Theo Notteboom, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston (USA).
(2008) "Round Table on Port Competition and Hinterland Connections", Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Transport Forum, Paris (France). Comments.
(2008) "The Terminalization of Supply Chains: Reassessing Port / Hinterland Logistical Relationships", joint presentation with Theo Notteboom, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Dalian (China).
(2008) Participation to the roundtable "Drivers of Change: North America’s Freight Transportation System in 2030 Agenda", Arizona State University, Tempe (USA).
(2008) "Gateways and Corridors" and "Hinterland Logistics", Hinterland Transportation Seminar, University of Antwerp, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA), Antwerp (Belgium).
(2008) "Inland Ports: Perspectives for Western Canada", Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Inland Port Roundtables, Edmonton, Kamloops and Prince George (Canada).
(2007) "Maritime Gateways as Paradigms of Globalization", keynote speech, Spatial Impacts of Multimodal Corridor Development in Gateway Areas: Italy-Greece-Turkey Conference (SIMECODE-IGT), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greece).
(2007) "Port Hinterland Divergence along the North American Eastern Seaboard", with Changqian Guan, International Congress on Ports in Proximity: Competition, Cooperation and Integration, Antwerp / Rotterdam.
(2007) "Logistics and Global Commodity Chains", Fall Summit, HSH Nordbank, Hamburg (Germany).
(2007) Invited speaker, Thinking Bigger: New York and Transportation in the Northeast Megaregion Symposium, Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, New York University (USA). Click here to see a PodCast version of the roundtable.
(2007) "The Insertion of BostWash within the Global and National Freight Frameworks", Anticipating 2025: Changing Technologies and Intermodal Linkages in Aerial, Highway, Marine, and Rail Transportation in the Northeast Corridor, University of Delaware, Newark (USA). Click here to see a PodCast version of the presentation.
(2007) "The Future of Containerization: Box Logistics in Light of Global Supply Chains", joint presentation with Theo Notteboom, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Athens (Greece).
(2007) "Intermodal Transportation and Commodity Chains: New York and the Global, Regional and Local Nexus", New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, New York (USA).
(2007) "Ten Global Trends Impacting North American Rail Freight Distribution", keynote speech, Rail-Government Interface (RGI) Conference, Railway Association of Canada (RAC), Ottawa (Canada). Material from this presentation used by the RAC for their report to the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications (Government of Canada).
(2007) "The Bostwash Corridor: Global and National Dimensions", Projecting and Planning for the Movement of Goods and People Into, Out of, and Within, the Northeast Corridor, 2007 – 2025, University of Delaware, Newark (USA).
(2007) "Corridors and the Maritime / Land Interface: North America and the Pacific", Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Research Consortium, Vancouver (Canada).
(2007) "Hinterland Transportation: Gateways and Corridors" and "Hinterland Transportation: Intermodal and Transmodal Operations", Hinterland Transportation Seminar, University of Antwerp, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA), Antwerp (Belgium).
(2007) "The Next Fifty Years of Containerization: Container Vessels, Liner Shipping and Seaport Terminals", and "The Next Fifty Years of Containerization: Inland Freight Distribution" joint presentation with Theo Notteboom, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco (USA).
(2007) “Gateways, Corridors and Global Freight Distribution: Transpacific Issues”, Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Research Consortium, Gateway and Corridor Workshop, Regina (Canada). Accompanying paper.
(2007) “Shared Intermodal Terminals and the Potential for Improving the Efficiency of Rail-Rail Interchange”, joint presentation with J. Lanigan, J. Zumerchik, R. Guensler and M.O. Rodgers, Transportation Research Board, Committee on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design and Operations, Washington, D.C. (USA).
(2006) "Intermodal Transportation and Integrated Transport Systems: Spaces, Networks and Flows", Flowpolis: The Form of Nodal Space conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Accompanying paper.
(2006) “Transmodal Rail Operations and the Thruport Concept”, Mid-Continent Transportation Research Forum, Madison, (USA).
(2006) "Global Production Networks and Transport Gateways", Hinterland Transportation Seminar, University of Antwerp, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA), Antwerp (Belgium).
(2006) "Transport, Logistics and Global Production Networks: A Geographical Perspective", Chalmers University of Technology, Division of Logistics and Transportation, Gothenburg (Sweden).
(2006) "The Thruport Concept: Reconciling Time and Flows in Freight Distribution", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago (USA).
(2006) "Viewpoint (Transport Geography Rant): Follow the Freight", Transport Geography: Assessing the Current State of the Subdiscipline, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago (USA).
(2006) "Inter-metropolitan Rail Corridors and Regional Development", keynote speaker, Building Inter-metropolitan Rail Corridors: A Public Policy Forum, University of Delaware, Institute of Public Administration, Newark (USA). Click here to see a PodCast version of the presentation.
(2005) “New Port-Hinterland Relationships: Experiences from North America”, International Workshop on New Generation Port Cities and Global Supply Chains, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China).
(2005) “The Future of Freight Transportation: Technological and Commercial Forces”, keynote speaker, Transportation, Commerce and Security: Challenges Facing Global Policymakers, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State, Arlington (USA).
(2005) “Transportation and Global Production Networks: The Challenges of Geographical and Functional Integration”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Denver (USA).
(2005) “The Suburbanization of Transport Terminals and Freight Distribution Centers”, New Visions of Suburban Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead (USA).
(2005) “The Challenges of Freight Distribution in the New York Metropolitan Area”, Beyond Post-9/11: A Colloquium on the Future of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton (USA).
(2004) “Challenging the Derived Transport Demand: Geographical Issues in Freight Distribution”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia (USA).
(2003) “Freight and the City: Distribution in the New York Metropolitan Area”, Conference of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers, Albany, NY (USA).
(2003) "The Transport Geography of Logistics and Freight Distribution: North American and Western European Perspectives", with Markus Hesse, Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America (STELLA) meeting, Focus Group 1: Globalisation, E-Economy and Trade, Brussels (Belgium).
(2003) "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: Global Changes, Regional Gains and Local Pains", Invited Speaker, Research Seminar on Maritime Transport, Globalization, Regional Integration and Territorial Development, University of Le Havre, Le Havre (France).
(2003) "Freight, Gateways and Mega-Urban Regions: The Case of BostWash", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans (USA).
(2002) “The Synchronization of Freight Transport Terminals”, International Congress on Freight Transport Automation and Multimodality, Delft (Netherlands).
(2002) “Globalization and the Geography of Logistics: Conceptual Issues”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles (USA).
(2002) “Transport Geography on the Web”, Teaching Transport Geography Panel, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles (USA).
(2001) “The Paradoxes of Green Logistics”, 9th World Conference on Transport Research, Seoul (Korea).
(2001) “The Transportation Geography of Logistics”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York (USA).
(2000) “Transportation, Logistics and Space: A Conceptual Overview”, Conference of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (USA).
(2000) “Uncreative Destruction? Environmental Issues of Two Decades of Transportation / Land Use Changes in Chinese Cities”, 36th International Congress on Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), Montreal (Canada).
(2000) “Transportation and Urban Sustainability in China: Issues and Prospects”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh (USA).
(2000) “Are Environmental Externalities Relevant? Lessons from Urban Transportation in China”, Lectures on Transport Planning and Environmental Management, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, (China).
(1999) “Transportation, Spatial Interactions and Urban Sustainability: The Case of China”, Conference of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers, West Chester, PA (USA).
(1999) “Transport and the Urban Environment: Impacts of Chinese Urban Morphology”, with Julien-Claude Racette, 15th Triennial Conference, International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Beijing (China).
(1999) “Transport and Environment Issues”, Invited lecturer, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) and Shanghai Institute for Science and Technology, Shanghai (China).
(1999) “Improving Transportation / Land Use Sustainability with Geographic Information Systems”, Invited lecturer, Gansu University of Technology, Lanzhou (China).
(1999) “Transport Gateways and International Trade on the Pacific Rim”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu (USA).
(1998) “Globalization and the Synchronization of Transport Terminals”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston (USA).
(1998) “Transport and the Environment: Urban Issues”, Invited lecturer, Gansu University of Technology, Lanzhou (China).
(1997) “Maritime Transportation, International Trade and Economic Integration: The Pacific-Asian Environment”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth (USA).
(1996) “Pacific Asian Economic Integration: Overview and Prospects”, Canadian Asian Studies Association Conference, Brock University, St-Catharines (Canada).
(1996) “Cyberspace and Asian Studies”, Canadian Asian Studies Association Conference, Brock University, St-Catharines (Canada).
(1996) “Maritime Fields: A New Geography of Maritime Transportation?”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte (USA).
(1995) “Vers une typologie portuaire: l’hypothèse des champs maritimes”, Conférence de l’Association Canadienne des Géographes, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal (Canada).
(1995) “Transportation and Spatial Cycles: Evidence from Maritime Transportation”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago (USA).
(1994) “GIS and Transportation / Land Use Planning: Utility Value Assessment in Chinese Cities”, CPGIS’94, University of Calgary, Calgary (Canada).
(1994) “China: The Next Battleground for Industrial Capitalism?”, Biennial Conference of the East Asia Council, University of Calgary, Calgary (Canada).
(1994) “Economic, Transportation and Urbanization Cycles in Urban Regions of East Asia”, Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo (Canada).
(1993) “Transportation Corridors in East Asian Urban Regions”, Biennial Conference of the East Asia Council, Université de Montréal, Montréal (Canada).
(1993) “Transportation and Territorial Development in Singapore Extended Metropolitan Region”, 34th International Congress on Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
(1992) “Intermodality in the Emergence of Mega-Urban Regions: Principles and Equations”, 6th World Conference on Transport Research, Lyon (France).
(1992) “Transportation and Land Use Optimization: Land Use Utility Value Assessment using Geographic Information Systems”, International Conference on Urban Land Use and Transport System (ICULTS '92), Shanghai (China).
(1992) “Knowledge-Based Computing for Transportation / Land Use Systems: Application to Shanghai”, International Conference on Urban Land Use and Transport System (ICULTS’92), Shanghai (China).
(1992) “The Role of Transportation in the Emergence of Mega-Urban Regions: The Cases of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore”, Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada).
(1991) “Le rôle des transports dans l’émergence de méga-régions urbaines en Asie de l’Est: le cas de Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou”, Conference of the Canadian Association of Asian Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines (Canada).
(1991) “Le système expert en géographie des transports”, Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada).

Conferences Chair and Organization

(2008) "The Atlantic Rim: Comparative Issues in North American and European Logistics", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Sponsored by the Transport and Economic Geography Specialty Groups and Transport Geography Research Group (Royal Geographical Society), Boston (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2007) "Globalization and Freight Transportation in a Containerized World", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Two sessions sponsored by the Economic Geography, Transport Geography and Historical Geography Specialty Groups, San Francisco (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2007) "Transport, Geography and Governance", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Session sponsored by the Transport Geography Specialty Group and by the Transport Geography Research Group (Royal Geographical Society), San Francisco (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2006) "Freight Transport and Intermodality", NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activity Research) Cluster Meeting, Gothenburg (Sweden), Chair.
(2006) "Applied Transportation Research", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago (USA), Chair.
(2006) “Gateway Cities: Materials, People and the Flows of Globalization”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Two sessions sponsored by the Economic Geography, Transport Geography and Urban Geography Specialty Groups, Chicago (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2005) “Global Production Networks, Logistics and Transport”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Two sessions sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group and by the Transport Geography Study Group, Denver (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2004) “Re-Exploring the Interface between Economic Geography and Transport Geography”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Sessions sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group and by the Transport Geography Study Group, Philadelphia (USA), Co-organizer and Co-chair.
(2003) “The Geography of Freight Transportation: Global, Regional and Urban Dimensions”, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, 3 Sessions sponsored by the Transport Geography Study Group, New Orleans (USA), Co-organizer and Chair.
(2002) "The Geography of Logistics", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Two sessions sponsored by the Transport Geography Study Group, Los Angeles (USA), Organizer and Chair.
(2002) "Teaching Transport Geography", Panel sessions, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Two sessions sponsored by the Transport Geography Study Group, Los Angeles (USA), Co-organizer and Chair.
(2001) "Transportation Logistics" Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New York (USA), Chair.
(2001) "Battery Park: Walking tour of Battery Park City and the World Financial Center", Field Trip, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New York (USA), Co-organizer.
(2000) "Geography and Transportation", Conference of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (USA), Chair.
(2000) "Impacts of Transportation Systems", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh (USA), Chair.
(1999) "Transport and the Pacific: Selected Issues", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Session sponsored by the Transport Geography Study Group, Organizer, Honolulu (USA).
(1998) "Transport Terminals: New Perspectives", Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston (USA). Session sponsored by the Transport Geography Study Group, Organizer and chair.
(1996) "East Asian Models for Economic Development", 2 sessions, Canadian Asian Studies Association 1996 Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines (Canada), Chair.
(1995) "Géographie du transport maritime", 2 sessions on maritime transportation, Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal (Canada). Organizer and chair.
(1994) "Industrial Geography", Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo (Canada), Chair.
(1992) "Fringe festivals: Mega-urban regions in South East Asia", Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), Chair.