Programme Committees and Mission Statements

The following Programme Committees are in place for the 2010 conference. The focus of their interests is described.

European Transport Policy and Research

The European Transport Policy and Research committee seeks papers that are concerned with pan-European policy and its application at both European and national levels. We are interested in papers that address research and its application on issues that have a trans-national context. Areas of special interest are: policy impacts of the EC Action Plan on Urban Mobility; transport policy which is being developed at supranational and national level to promote jobs; the effects of globalisation; and air transport related issues.

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Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport

Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport The focus of this stream is on sustainable solutions to problems of land use and transport and how to measure and evaluate their effectiveness and impacts. The committee encourages the debate on the integration of transport and land use planning through interesting research results and examples of good practice. Further details of the committee's interests are available from Peter Endemann, Committee Chair. Telephone +49 69 2577-1588 or email peter.endemann@planungsverband.de

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Leisure and Tourism Transport

The Programme Committee focuses on the impact of leisure and tourism travel at a time of debate about the need to curtail travel for environmental reasons. It seeks papers on policy analyses and evaluation to promote integrated travel and tourism, including all contributing EU policies (environmental, cohesion, regional development, economic, employment, cultural); leisure and tourism planning and policy in relation to transport and travel.

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Local Public Transport

The Local Public Transport Committee seeks to encourage papers showing excellence in urban and rural public transport and enhancing the understanding of the key issues that affect the provision of good public transport services.

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Rail

The Rail Committee seeks to encourage papers and debate on the planning and economics of heavy rail passenger transport. It has a particular interest in topics such as: reform in East Europe; sustainability, the environment and transport; quality aspects of transport and their effect on demand; effectiveness of implementation of EC policy; passenger information and ticketing; devolution in decision making - the relationship between central, regional and local government.

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Traffic Management, Engineering and Safety

The aim of this committee is to attract a strong representation of papers from both researchers and practitioners with subjects encompassing: highway design and traffic management; safety research, policy and implementation; incident management; risk and liability; signals, signing and telematics; public transport priority systems; traffic engineering, network management; urban design in the street scene. The Programme Committee wants to be able to offer sessions on good, practical experience of scheme planning, design and management.

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Roads Policy, Delivery and Operation

The Programme Committee wants this seminar to focus on European, regional, national and local policies for the construction operation and maintenance of roads. Aspects of delivery include funding and forms of delivery, design and build, PPP, public sector input. This focus also applies to operation and maintenance.

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Freight and Logistics

The Programme Committee is interested in receiving papers concerning actual issues such as freight and the environment, impact of strategic logistics on freight systems, freight policy development, city logistics, trans-national networks, ports and maritime policy.

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Innovative Methods in Transport Analysis, Planning and Appraisal

The Innovative Methods programme seeks to present and discuss work that expands the methodological frontiers of transport analysis over a wide range of disciplines. We are looking for imaginative and thoughtful papers on a range of subjects. Our criteria in selecting papers for presentation are therefore:

is the work innovative?
is the work of high quality?
does it fall within the general area of interest of the conference?
do we expect that the authors will be able to present and discuss their work so that conference participants can judge its merit?

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Applied Methods in Transport Planning

The focus of this committee is on transport modelling and simulations; appraisal methods.

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