The October 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
- Call for EOI to bid for hosting 2029 World Conference
- 2023 WCTR Keynote Address – Prof. Eric Miller
- WSSTL-2025: Announcement and Call for Papers
- WCTRS-TEA Joint Session 2024
- Report on Workshop “The Role of Micro-Mobility in Contemporary Transport Systems”
- Save the Date: International SIG B3 Seminar
- Electric Vehicle Conference 2025 – Stuttgart, Germany
- Call for Papers and Abstracts: ICAHETS 2024 & TRF 2024
- Membership of the WCTRS
- 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.
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 |
Update – 17 October 2024: Due to petitions received by the SSSC, for an extension to ensure the authorization of the applicants’ Universities, it is decided to extend the date of submission of the EOI to bid to host WCTR of 2029 to 10 November 2024. The news posts has been updated to reflect this change.
The WCTRS Site Selection Sub Committee (SSSC) is pleased to release the Formal Notification of Expression of Interest (EOI) to Bid to Host WCTR-19, 2029.
Academic Entities interested to respond to the Invitation for Bids to Host WCTR-19, in 2029 are kindly requested to complete and sign the EOI Form given below, save in [ pdf ] file, and send by e-mail, no later than Sunday 10 November 2024, to the Chair of the Site Selection Sub-Committee (SSSC) of WCTRS, Professor Ali Huzayyin ([email protected]), with cc to SSSC members Professor Sergio Jara-Diaz ([email protected]) and Professor Antonio Musso ([email protected]).
The EOI form can be accessed here.
The September 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
- 2023 WCTR Keynote Address- Prof. Anming Zhang
- SIGA2 Conference 2025: The Port and Maritime Sector
- Save the Date: International SIG B3 Seminar
- WCTR – TEA Joing Session 2024
- Report on the Fourth Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
- Call for Papers and Abstracts: ICAHETS 2024 & TRF 2024
- International Perspectives on Public Transport Response to COVID-19
- Electric Vehicle Conference 2025- Stuttgart, Germany
- 2024 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student
- Membership of the WCTRS
WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 5, September 2024
The August 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
- 2023 WCTR Keynote Address- Prof. Chandra Bhat
- Report on International Traffic Signal Control Conference 2024
- Fourth Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
- 2024 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student Competition
- Declaration on Building a Community for Public Transport Development at 2021 China (Beijing) International Public Transport Conference
- Electric Vehicle Conference 2025- Stuttgart, Germany
- SIGA2 Conference 2025: The Port and Maritime Sector
- Membership of the WCTRS
The July 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
1. EIT Urban Mobility Bari Summer School 2024
2. Report on Third Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
3. Call for papers: 7th Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) 2025
4. 2024 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student Competition
5. SIGA2 Conference 2025: The Port and Maritime Sector
6. Call for Book Series Proposals from WCTR Members
7. Membership of the WCTRS
WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2024
The June 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
1. EIT Urban Mobility Bari Summer School 2024
2. Report on the Second Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
3. Call for papers: The economics of platform-based mobility and logistics service
4. Call for Book Series Proposals from WCTR Members
5. Summer School on Future-ready Transport, Shipping, and Logistics: Rethinking competence and skills
6. Call for papers: Theorizing, Designing, and Implementing Digital Twins in Operations and Supply Chains
7. German Aviation Research Society June Events
8. Membership of the WCTRS
The May 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
1. ADBI HSR Webinar Series
2. International Symposium on “Integrated land use/transport models for carbon neutral strategies”
3. International Summer School on Inclusive Mobility
4. Sustainable Aviation Seminar Series
5. Call for Papers: 7th Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) 2025
6. 2nd International Conference on Infrastructure Development and Sustainability
7. Membership of the WCTRS
The April 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
1. ADBI Closed-Door Roundtable Series
2. International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
3. International Summer School on Inclusive Mobility
4. Sustainable Aviation Seminar Series
5. Call for Papers: 7th Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) 2025
6. Membership of the WCTRS
The March 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.
This edition contains:
1. Hideo Nakamura sessions at the 30th conference of the Turkish Economic Association (ICE-TEA)
2. International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
3. Rescoping SIG F4 as Livability and Sustainable Transport
4. Urban Transitions 2024
5. Membership of the WCTRS