On behalf of colleagues here at ITS Leeds, details of an opportunity targeted toward PHD students taking place later this year...

hEART 2014
3rd Summer School for PhD Students
September 9th 2014 Leeds

Prior to the first two hEART conferences, hosted by EPFL in Lausanne in 2012 and KTH in Stockholm in 2013, highly successful summer schools were held for PhD students researching in the broad area of transport.
hEART 2014 is also offering a one-day summer school prior to the main conference. This will be held at the University of  Leeds, again with presentations from the following leading international researchers.


Maria Börjesson
Recent Advances in Value of Time Estimation: Experiences from the Recent Swedish National Study

Caspar Chorus
Recent Developments in Non-RUM Discrete Choice Models

Mohammed Quddus
Analysing Spatial Data using GIS

Simon Shepherd
System Dynamics Models in Transportation

There is no fee to attend this Summer School.  To reserve your place, please contact Zoe Clough ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) providing your name, affiliation and phone and email contact details.

The format will be four 90 minute talks, with breaks midway through and ample time for discussion. The event will provide an excellent networking opportunity for PhD researchers.

Discounted rates for PhD students will be available for the main conference on the following three days.

We are also able to offer reasonably priced and good quality University accommodation for the summer school and also over the period of the main conference.  Further details about the conference are available on www.heart2014.eu<http://www.heart2014.eu>.

Summer School Speakers

Maria Börjesson is Docent Transport Systems Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, and Deputy Director of its Centre for Transport Studies. Maria has extensive experience of analysis and decision support in traffic planning, such as forecasting, appraisal, and cost-benefit analysis of road and rail investments and road pricing. She has extensive experience of transport model development and related econometrics, including refined econometric methods, values of time and reliability for all transport modes.  Maria was responsible for the design and econometric analysis of the Swedish National Value of Time study in 2007-2010, the national Value of Reliability study 2010-2012, and the benefit calculations of HSR for the Swedish Government in 2010.


Caspar Chorus is head of the Transport and Logistics group at TU Delft. His main research aim is to increase the behavioral realism of travel choice models, and by implication to provide a stronger and richer foundation for transport policy development. Caspar is interested in developing and testing conventional (travel) choice models as well as new, more unorthodox model forms; he has introduced the random regret minimization-approach for discrete choice analysis. On these and related topics, Caspar has published extensively in leading journals in the field of transportation and beyond. He is editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, which is the only ISI-listed open access e-journal in transportation.


Mohammed Quddus is Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems at the School of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. He holds a BSc degree in Civil Engineering from BUET, Bangladesh, an MEng degree in Transport Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a PhD in Intelligent Transport Systems from Imperial College London. Professor Quddus has published widely in the areas of road safety modelling, transport modelling, ITS and GIS. He serves as an Associate Editor of two leading transport journals: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems. His current research focuses on the enhancement of underpinning algorithms behind autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles with respect to improvement of network safety.


Simon Shepherd is Professor of Transport Modelling and Policy Design at ITS, University of Leeds.  Simon's work on optimisation covers all levels through work on an EPSRC funded project devising second-best optimal road pricing cordons/locations, developing methods and models further through the DISTILLATE project and through a Fellowship which looked at the linkages between models and policy recommendations.  He works with colleagues in the Technical University of Vienna in developing the dynamic model MARS which provides a systems dynamics approach to strategic modelling.  This model has been applied in the STEPS project which looked at policies under scarcity of oil supply and the EU funded project GHG-TransPORD where scenarios were simulated to reduce CO2 emissions. Recent projects for the UK DfT have included work to enhance the strategic LUTI model MARS to link with SATURN and provide indicators in line with DASTS requirements.



Bryan Matthews
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Transport Studies and Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 113 3435341
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