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MIT Portugal Transportation Systems Workshop held at MIT
Friday, 05 September 2008

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Prof. Chris Zegras
Faculty, researchers and students from the Transportation Systems Focus Area of the MIT Portugal Program met on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus September 4-5, 2008 to discuss education and research initiatives for the coming year.

The workshop involved a number of MIT Portugal Program colleagues from Portugal as well as MIT, who discussed such topics as student recruitment, education delivery and research progress.

The event also served to announce the Transportation Systems Focus Area Teaching Award winners for 2007-08: António P. Antunes of FCT-University of Coimbra and Jorge Pinho de Sousa of FEUP, University of Porto.

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Award winners António P. Antunes and Jorge Pinho de Sousa

On Thursday, September 4, the workshop focused on education, with an introductory session in the morning and bilateral meetings between relevant partners involved in the different courses.

On Friday, September 5 the event focused on research updates and progress, with bilateral meetings among project partners and plenary session to increase understanding across projects in the relevant domains within Transportation Systems.

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Daniele Veneziano speaks about High Speed Rail research.
The event was directed by Transportation Systems Focus Area co-leads Prof. Christopher Zegras of MIT and Prof. Jose Viegas of Instituto Superior Tecnico.

Presentations given at the workshop are available Transportation Systems Workshop September 2008.