Programme Committees - Mission Statements and Calls for Papers
The following Programme Committees are in place for the 2012 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Traffic Management, Traffic Engineering and Road 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, practical experience of scheme planning, design and management.
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.
Methodological Innovations
The Modelling Innovations 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 this Conference?
- Do we expect that the authors will be able to present and discuss their work so that conference participants can judge its merit?
Transport Economics and Appraisal
This new Programme Committee has been formed to reflect the increasing importance of appraisal methods in transport planning.
Applied Methods in Transport Planning
The focus of this committee is on transport modelling and simulations; application of methods to decision-making.of this committee is on transport modelling and simulations; appraisal methods.
Innovative Transport Infrastructure Funding
The focus of this committee is on finding innovative solutions to funding transport infrastructure projects, such as PPP and other methods.
