An overview of the conference “ Sharing Experiences on organizing CFD” in Hoi An

 

People who attended the conference were the leaders of  departments, branches directly under the People’s Committee of  Hoi An city, The People’s Committee of wards and the  Representatives of  Phan Chau Trinh University, the Central College of Electric Power and Water Resources College.

Ms. Ciara Leonard – a coordinator of the European Mobility Week Organization (EMW)is sharing experiences on organizing CFD.

 

At the conference, experts f-rom Europe, Japan introduced the initiatives to mobilize communities to join and discuss the lessons that can be applied to Hoi An in order to organize CFD that will take place on September 09,2012 in Hoi An.

 

Ms. Ciara Leonard, coordinator of EMW said: "EMW is being launched during a week, f-rom September16 to September22  annually in Europe. This activity is an attempt to improve urban traffic, towards building a friendly environment city in which the transportation will not much depend on motor vehicles. Currently, the movement has spread worldwide with the participation of 2268 cities. I find that Hoi An has been being in the right direction that more than 10 years were held the pedestrian quarter. Hoi An entirely has objective and subjective conditions to be the 2269th  city of EMW network and will receive our help as well. "

 

Ms. Huynh Thi Huong, Head of Organization – Administration – External Affairs, Phan Chau Trinh University said that : “Nearly 10 years,  Hoi An city has done very well the movement of  the city without engine noise. And now, to expand the scope of  activities in order to change people’s awareness and also the habit of using  motorcycles, the project should encourage more participants, pay more attention to students and especially travel enterprise. "