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World Conference on Transport Research Society

The October 2024 World Conference on Transport Research Society Newsletter is now available.

This edition contains:

  1. Call for EOI to bid for hosting 2029 World Conference
  2. 2023 WCTR Keynote Address – Prof. Eric Miller
  3. WSSTL-2025: Announcement and Call for Papers
  4. WCTRS-TEA Joint Session 2024
  5. Report on Workshop “The Role of Micro-Mobility in Contemporary Transport Systems”
  6. Save the Date: International SIG B3 Seminar
  7. Electric Vehicle Conference 2025 – Stuttgart, Germany
  8. Call for Papers and Abstracts: ICAHETS 2024 & TRF 2024
  9. Membership of the WCTRS
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 

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:

  1. 2023 WCTR Keynote Address- Prof. Anming Zhang
  2. SIGA2 Conference 2025: The Port and Maritime Sector
  3. Save the Date: International SIG B3 Seminar
  4. WCTR – TEA Joing Session 2024
  5. Report on the Fourth Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
  6. Call for Papers and Abstracts: ICAHETS 2024 & TRF 2024
  7. International Perspectives on Public Transport Response to COVID-19
  8. Electric Vehicle Conference 2025- Stuttgart, Germany
  9. 2024 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student
  10. 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:

  1. 2023 WCTR Keynote Address- Prof. Chandra Bhat
  2. Report on International Traffic Signal Control Conference 2024
  3. Fourth Webinar of International Webinar Series on “Sustainable Transport and Livability”
  4. 2024 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student Competition
  5. Declaration on Building a Community for Public Transport Development at 2021 China (Beijing) International Public Transport Conference
  6. Electric Vehicle Conference 2025- Stuttgart, Germany
  7. SIGA2 Conference 2025: The Port and Maritime Sector
  8. Membership of the WCTRS

WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 4, August 2024

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

WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2024

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

WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2024

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

WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 12, April 2024

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

WCTRS Research Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 11, March 2024