Webinar 3: Speakers and Panelists
Mode: Virtual (over Zoom and Facebook live)
Date/Time: 16 August 2023, Wednesday (1:00 - 3:00pm, Philippine standard time)
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r7Mt4rtiQ4SEvbqYPoD6IQ
Webinar coordinators/ moderators: Dr. Varsolo Sunio, S&T Fellow (for transport/logistics studies), DOST-PCIEERD / Dr. Sandy Gaspay, Assoc Prof, ICE, UP-Diliman and Research Fellow, UP-NCTS / Dr. Clark Kendrick Go, Department of Mathematics, Ateneo de Manila University / Engr. Sheila Javier (UP-NCTS)
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Theme: Property Value Capture as a Mechanism for Public Transport Financing in the Philippines
The Philippines is experiencing rapid growth and urbanization, which are often accompanied by congestion and motorization. In recent years, the Philippines has been pursuing ambitious mass transit projects. All of these projects, however, require massive financing. This webinar explores the possibility of implementing property value capture (PVC) as an innovative mechanism for financing public transport projects in the Philippines.
Keynote: Overview of innovation in public transport finance using property value capture: Experiences in US and India
Prof. Shishir Mathur
Professor, San Jose State University, California, United States; Author of Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture (Routledge, 2016)
Dr. Mathur is a professor of urban and regional planning at San Jose State University (SJSU). During 2016-2019, he served as Associate Dean of Research, College of Social Sciences, SJSU, and during 2016-2020, as Director, Certificate in Real Estate Development. He is the recipient of two university-level awards: Provost's Award for Excellence in Service Learning and Provost's Award for Excellence in Assessment of Learning Activities.
Dr. Mathur has over two decades of experience in academia, the corporate sector, and consulting. His body of work includes two books and more than 100 journal articles, book-length manuscripts, book chapters, working papers, conference papers/presentations, and consulting projects in and cutting across the fields of public finance, urban & real estate economics, housing, international planning, growth management, land use planning, transportation planning, emergency management, and systems analysis. The US Department of Transportation, the State of California, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Brookings Institution have funded his research.
He has advised several international, national, regional, and local organizations, such as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), the Federal Transit Administration, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the City of San Jose.
Presentation: Transit Oriented Development and Property Value Capture in Japan
Prof. Hironori Kato
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Dr. Kato is a Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Transport Studies. His research interests include: Transportation planning and policy, Infrastructure projects in developing regions, International/interregional transportation planning, and Transportation economics and finance. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Transportation; International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology; Urban Rail Transit; PLOS ONE; and many more.
Plenary: Potential application of Property Value Capture as a financing mechanism in the Philippines
Juan Alfonso
President and CEO,
Light Rail Manila Corporation
Francis Adrian Viernes
Assistant Vice President - Chief Data Scientist Head of Data Analytics / Data Science Megaworld Corporation
Leonel Cray De Velez
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Project Development - Department of Transportation