The Special Interest Group (SIG)-F4 of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), together with Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, is happy to announce the 1st World Symposium on Sustainable Transport & Livability (WSSTL-2025). The symposium will be held from 25th – 27th June 2025 in Bengaluru, India, at J. N. Tata Auditorium in IISc Campus.
For full details, please visit the official symposium website: WSSTL-2025 Website
The symposium aims to bring together leading experts, policymakers, urban planners, researchers, industry & community leaders to address the most pressing challenges and innovative solutions in sustainable transport and livability. The symposium is open for paper submission from 1st October 2024 till 30th Nov. 2024.
Authors are invited to submit one or more full papers to the following themes:
- Transport and Well-being: This theme will focus on promoting well-being through sustainable transport. The topics include exploring how sustainable transport interventions contribute to the overall well-being of individuals and communities, focusing on physical, mental, economic, and social well-being. It may include cognitive analyses of transport services, such as community transport and smart transport.
- Transport, and Health and Happiness: This theme will focus on enhancing health and happiness through sustainable transport. The topics include unravelling how sustainable transport interventions can make society and individuals healthier and happier. It may include behavioural analyses of active travel and the aged society.
- Transport and Livability/Quality of Life (QoL): This theme will focus on creating livable cities with improved quality of life through sustainable transport solutions. The topics include discussing strategies for building more livable urban environments and enhancing quality of life by prioritizing sustainable transportation solutions. Investigating how sustainable transport interventions affect livability and quality of life (QoL). It may include spatial analyses of urban accessibility and street design, such as the x-minute city and walkable streets.
- Transport, and Equity and Accessibility: This theme will focus on fostering equity and accessibility (including social accessibility) in transportation. The topics include addressing how sustainable transport impacts the safety, affordability, equity and accessibility. Highlighting the need to ensure social inclusiveness, particularly marginalized communities, to promote social justice and bridge existing disparities.
- Transport and Environmental Quality and Disaster Resiliency: This theme will focus on safeguarding environmental quality and building disaster resilience frameworks. The topics include investigating how sustainable transport can contribute towards improving environmental quality and disaster resiliency of urban transport systems.
- Other aspects of Transport related to Livability and Quality of Life: This theme will focus on exploring additional dimensions of livability and quality of life impacted by sustainable transport, such as investigating the role of technology in enhancing livability and quality of life through sustainable transport solutions, etc.
Author Guidelines for Submission and Publication
We invite original research submissions including empirical studies, theoretical research, case studies, review articles, and conceptual papers relevant to any symposium theme. The symposium will give equal importance to papers from developed and developing economies. We particularly encourage papers that address a mix of quantitative and qualitative research approaches and the translation of research into practice.
The partner journal for the symposium is Sustainable Transport and Livability (TSTL), Taylor & Francis (T&F). The review system and process of symposium has been fully integrated with the review system of TSTL, T&F. This will also ensure less hassle for authors and seamless publication experience. Hence, submissions should adhere to the manuscript submission guidelines established for the partner journal Sustainable Transport and Livability (TSTL), Taylor & Francis (T&F).
Detailed instructions for manuscript preparation can be here.
All submissions will be processed and reviewed as per review policies and standards of TSTL, T&F. For TSTL, T&F submission portal: Click here.
Please ensure to select “WSSTL-2025” from the drop-down menu for article type while submitting the paper in the TSTL, T&F submission portal. Failing to select the correct article type will lead to the paper not being considered for WSSTL-2025. Also, all submitted papers will be reviewed and included for both the symposium as well as the TSTL special issue of “WSSTL-2025” if accepted. Further, in the cover letter, authors should clearly state that the paper submission is under the Special Issue WSSTL-2025. In the Acknowledgement, authors should also add the following: “Authors acknowledge the opportunity to present their paper in 1st World Symposium on Sustainable Transport and Livability (WSSTL-2025) as well as publish it in this journal.” By submitting your paper, the author(s) consent to considering their paper for both the symposium and TSTL special issue (SI). All papers published in the SI will be published open access with a 100% article processing charge (APC) waiver as per the partner journal agreement.
Please note that at least one author of all accepted papers must register for the symposium by 31st March 2025 to ensure inclusion of their paper in the symposium program as well as publication in the TSTL SI.
WSSTL Best Paper Awards
The WSSTL Best Paper Awards will be presented to the three best papers, as recommended by the WSSTL-2025 Award Review Committee (ARC). If the ARC finds no paper suitable for the award(s), they can recommend no suitable paper found. More details will follow in due course.
Important Dates
Call for papers | 1st October, 2024 |
Portal opens for submissions | 1st October, 2024 |
Deadline for submission of full papers | 30th November, 2024 |
Decision on submissions | 15th March, 2025 |
Early Bird Registration | 1st December 2024 to 31st March 2025 |
Last date for at least one author registration | 31st March 2025 |
Symposium Days | 25th – 27th June 2025 |
Further details: Visit the WSSTL 2025 website at https://wsstl2025.iisc.ac.in/
All correspondence related to the symposium can be addressed to the undersigned symposium secretariat.
IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab)
Room No.206, Old Masonry Building
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bengaluru-560012, Karnataka, India
Email ID: [email protected]
Phone: +91-80-2293-2939