I am writing to let you know about the Second International Symposium on
Sustainable Mobility on Sustainable Mobility in China and its Implications
for Emerging Economies, 28-29 May 2014
Conference Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. The
symposium is currently accepting papers for presentation and all accepted
papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Sustainable
Mobility (JSM). The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 March 2014. The
symposium is the home of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility
(www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jsm) published by Greenleaf in association
with Nottingham Trent University, UK, Cranfield University, UK, and the
Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), China. The inaugural issue of JSM will be
launched at the symposium in Beijing.
Please find the call for papers detailed below and do contact either myself
or the consulting committee should you require any further information.
Please feel free to circulate this information to any colleagues who may be
interested.
Best regards,
Rebecca Macklin, Publisher

Second International Symposium on Sustainable Mobility: Sustainable Mobility
in China and its Implications for Emerging Economies
28-29 May 2014; Conference Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China
After three decades of rapid economic growth China became the world’s second
largest economy in 2011 after the United States of America. Along with the
prospect of lifting millions out of poverty and improving living standards,
China is facing yet new challenges of rapid urbanization. Recent research
findings show that in 2012 urbanization rate was 52.6% in China (Lacy et
al., 2013). It is predicted that by 2020 the number of megacities in China
with an urban population of more than 10 million will increase to thirteen.
Along with the increase in urban population and living standards there has
been rapid increase of car ownership in China. It is estimated that there
are more than five million cars in Beijing (Cheng, 2013; Economist, 2013).
Large cities and prefecture-level cities already contributed 89.6% of
China’s total industrial CO2 emissions. One day in January 2013 air in
Beijing was heavily polluted to a level of toxicity (smog) forty times the
standard safe level set by the World Health Organization (Economist, 2013).
At the international level, transport contributed 61.5% to world petroleum
consumption and 22.3% to global CO2 emissions in 2010 (IEA, 2012). While the
overall level of CO2 emissions in developed economies is stabilizing and in
some cases declining, the levels in the developing and emerging economies
are increasing. Large emerging economies with megacities will imminently
become the major concerns of transport-related CO2 emissions. Without
strategic innovations in the automotive industry and transport management
system the current state of China’s transport sector is not sustainable. The
long-term sustainable solutions are likely to emerge from the interplay of
economic, environmental, social and technological factors.
Following a successful conclusion of the Inaugural International Symposium
on Sustainable Mobility held in Nottingham, UK we are organizing the Second
International Symposium on Sustainable Mobility in Beijing, China. The
symposium will focus on the issues of developing policies and corporate
strategies to help the automotive industry, transport management systems,
and urban planning to embark on a sustainable path to future growth and
development (WBCSD, 2007; World Bank, 2008). It is envisaged that critical
debate and research findings of the symposium will shed light on future
research and practice on sustainable mobility in emerging economies in
general and that in megacities in particular.
The symposium will critically debate themes and topics, but not limited to
the following:
• Regional development and urbanisation in emerging markets
• Socio-economic analysis of sustainable mobility
• Low-carbon vehicle technologies including battery-powered electric
vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), biofuel vehicles (BFVs) and
hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)
• Low-carbon intelligent transport systems
• Energy market and policy analysis
• Design and management of intelligent transport systems
• Corporate sustainability and sustainable mobility
• Global supply and value chains for sustainable mobility
• Venture capital and the development of low-carbon vehicles
Symposium programme (to be updated and distributed): Day 1: Paper
presentation Day 2: Company visit in the morning and Great Wall tour in the
afternoon
Symposium fee: £100 or 1,000 RMB yuan
Included in the delegate fees, apart from services of coffee/lunch/dinner,
are pre-arranged transport from airport to hotel, company visit and Great
Wall tour, delegate pack with symposium proceedings, plus the inaugural
issue of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility.
Venue: Direction and maps will be circulated to delegates
Hotel accommodation: Around £30 for a standard room and £60 for a standard
suite, booking through the Organising Committee
Visa issues: The Organizing Committee will provide delegates with invitation
letter for visa application upon request
Abstract: An abstract of 300-400 words (English only) needs to be submitted
to one of the three members of the Organizing Committee:
Dr Michael Zhang at [log in to unmask] 
Dr Stefano Longo at [log in to unmask] 
Dr Lingling Zhang at [log in to unmask] 
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline:                   28 March 2014[1]
Abstract acceptance notification:              10 April 2014
Registration and fees:                                    Before 28 April,
£100 or 1,000 RMB yuan/  After 28 April, £150 or 1,500 RMB yuan
       
Once accepted four types of full-paper submissions are invited: research
papers, policy debates, case studies, and research notes. We encourage
submissions from academics with a research-orientation from both social and
engineering sciences and business practitioners and policymakers from the
private and public sectors.

Consulting Committee
Professor Siwei Cheng, Dean, Management School, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Professor Baback Yazdani, Dean, Nottingham Business School, UK
Professor Francis Assadian, Head, Department of Automotive Engineering,
Cranfield University, UK
Prof Steve Leeb, MIT, USA
Organizing Committee
Dr Michael Zhang, Reader in International Strategy, Nottingham Business
School, UK
Professor Minjun Shi, Deputy Director, Research Center on Fictitious Economy
and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Hong Zhao, Deputy Dean, School of Management, University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Stefano Longo, Department of Automotive Engineering, Cranfield
University, UK
Professor Lingling Zhang, School of Management, and Vice Director of
Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Further information about the Journal of Sustainable Mobility can be found
at: www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jsm.