EUROPEAN TRANSPORT CONFERENCE

27 – 29 SEPTEMBER 1999

ROBINSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS


The 1999 European Transport Conference will be organised by PTRC on
behalf of the Association for European Transport.  The Association aims
for the promotion of co-operation and discussion at an international
level within the transport sector.  This is principally achieved through
the provision of an annual conference, now in its 27th year. The
Conference is widely regarded as the event to be held in Europe on
transport.

While most conferences focus on just one topic, the European Transport
Conference offers an opportunity to keep up-to-date with policy issues,
research findings and best practice across a broad spectrum of
transport.  The Conference is planned and put together on a “bottom-up”
basis by 100 volunteer professionals from 18 countries, drawn from the
public and private sectors.  Hence, the motto that the Conference is
“organised by European transport professionals for transport
professionals”.

Benefits of Attendance

? Networking within and across professional groups on an international
basis
? High technical quality of the presentations
? Stimulating discussion and feedback
? Mix of technical, policy and practice presentations
? Creating awareness of new developments

Venue

The Association is delighted to announce that the 1999 Conference is to
be held in a Cambridge College.  Robinson College provides a unique
environment for national and international conferences.  The College was
planned with the needs of conferences in mind and offers high quality
accommodation and an intimate atmosphere.  It is set in an area of
attractive wooded gardens and is only a short walk from the city centre,
through the famous “backs”, the lush area around the River Cam, which
backs on to some of the older, historic colleges.

The city of Cambridge is one of the most important and beautiful in
England, with a history of academic excellence and, now, technological
advances.  It is about 90 kilometres north east of London.  In terms of
accessibility, it is close to the M11 motorway, has rail and bus
connections to all parts of the UK including London Stansted Airport
which is about 45 kilometres away.   Stansted Airport is fast-expanding
and has flights to most major European cities plus direct flights and
connections to worldwide destinations.

A meeting place for research groups

The intimate atmosphere and facilities available at Robinson College are
ideal for gatherings of working groups to discuss on-going projects.  We
can offer a number of meeting rooms for research groups to meet on the
Sunday prior to the start of the Conference.  Please contact Sally
Scarlett at PTRC for details.

Format of the 1999 European Transport Conference

To reflect the pressure on everyone’s time, the event will be
streamlined to be held over three days and will include three days of
seminar programmes and two one-day conferences, which will attract a new
audience to the event.

The two one-day conferences will address:

? The Business of Transport
? Railway Restructuring

The themes of the seminar programmes are set out below.  Papers will be
presented over 20 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion and questions.

Themes of the seminar programme

As usual there will parallel streams of presentations to encourage
detailed topics to be presented and discussed.  There will be six
streams that will allow all recent developments to be tackled.  The
streams are:

1. EU Policy, Legislation and Research;
2. Inter-urban Transport Systems;
3. Transport Planning, Policy and Practice;
4. Public Transport, Planning and Management;
5. Traffic Management, Safety and Intelligent Transport Systems;
6. Transportation Planning Methods.

The streams are organised by Programme Committees of volunteer
professionals, who meet up to four times a year to put forward themes
for the seminar programme and then to select the papers from the
abstracts submitted.  They are also responsible for chairing sessions
and for encouraging a high standard of presentation and written paper.

As well as wanting to receive abstracts based on new research, ideas and
methodology, committees like to receive examples of project
implementation, particularly as delegates are keen to discuss case
studies relevant to their own work.  Listed below are the topics that
are particularly required:


EU POLICY, LEGISLATION AND RESEARCH

Chair: Dinos Stasinopoulos, DG VII, European Commission
Tel: +32 2 296 84 19
Fax: +32 2 296 96 32
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

? Harmonisation and policy convergence – harmonisation of legislation
? Globalisation – impact on European transporters
? Pan European networks – revision TEN’S guidelines
? Railways policy reform and restructuring
? Intermodality – promotion of multimodal systems, logistics

INTER-URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Chair: Paul-Marie Ringwald, BCEOM, France
Tel: +33 1 30 12 48 39
Fax: +33 1 30 12 10 95
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

? Cross-border routes and strategies
? Motorways and by-passes
? Express Package Services
? Freight
? Financing large infrastructure projects

TRANSPORT PLANNING, POLICY AND PRACTICE

Chair: George Hazel, City of Edinburgh Council, UK
Tel: + 44 131 529 3524
Fax: +44 131 529 3498
e-mail@ [log in to unmask]

? Issues involved in developing local transport plans
? Case studies of applications of sustainable land use and transport
within urban and rural areas
? Mobility management
? The city of the future – quo vadis?
? Understanding the psychology of changing behaviour, with reference to
the car user

PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Chair: Chris Brown, MCL Transport, UK
Tel: +44 1273 486346
Fax: +44 1273 487446
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

? Managing transport operations problems, issues and achievements
? Achieving and sustaining modal transfer
? Service planning impacts
? The role of new technology
? Infrastructure implications
? Financial impacts and funding requirements
? A look into the future – what might the local passenger transport
system of the next millennium look like – vehicle design, application of
new technology, information systems, payment systems

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, SAFETY AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Chair: John Vincent, Oscar Faber, UK
Tel: +44 1904 690680
Fax: +44 1904 690651
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

? Inter-urban and urban corridor studies (including provision for
different modes, control mechanisms and whole-life costing)
? Reallocating highway space (including closures, one way systems,
priority for space, pedestrians and cyclists)
? Public transport priority systems (including bus and light rapid
transit)
? Intelligent highways (including incident/accident detection, driver
information)
? Parking (including special parking areas, zones, enforcement,
financing)
? Road safety
? Road charging (mechanisms, techniques)

TRANSPORTATION PLANNING METHODS

Chair: Kay Axhausen, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Austria
Tel: +43 512 507 6902
Fax: +43 512 507 2906
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Papers on new and innovative developments in the theory, application and
validation of transport planning methods for passengers and freight, in
particular on:

? New survey designs (survey technologies; methods to assess and improve
survey quality, stated response methods and joint modelling of SP/RP
data
? New results in the areas of travel behaviour, supply response, general
equilibrium and dynamic modelling
? New approaches to forecasting, especially based on new modelling
approaches and innovative uses of existing tools
? New methods and results in monitoring and evaluating policy, in
particular multi-modal approaches

If you need further information about the streams or topics, you can
contact the Committee chairs mentioned above, or Sally Scarlett at PTRC.

Presenting a paper at the European Transport Conference

If your abstract is accepted, you will be notified by the end of March
1999 and, at that time, you will be asked to confirm that you can:
? Submit the full written paper by 15 June 1999, having obtained the
necessary clearances
? Submit copies of the slides you will use for checking by PTRC by 31
July 1999
? Send a booking form to PTRC by 31 July 1999
? Attend the Conference and present the paper

Prizes
? The Neil Mansfield Memorial Prize is awarded each year for the best
written paper from a speaker under the age of 35
? The Admiral de Ruijter Prize is awarded by supporters from the
Netherlands to the author of the paper contributing most towards the
promotion of co-operation in European transport planning practice
? The Martlet Prize is awarded to the Young Professional offering the
greatest contribution to new ideas and practice in public transport
planning

Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts will be reviewed by committees and the programme assembled
with papers grouped into topic areas.  We always receive far more
abstracts than we can accommodate in the programme, so it assists
committees if abstracts contain detailed information about the
methodology and the likely conclusions to be reached when the paper is
written (June 1999) and presented (September 1999).  Committee chairs
and PTRC staff are happy to be consulted about the content of an
abstract and how it should be written, if you are in any doubt.

Abstracts should be typed on the Abstracts form (contact PTRC to obtain
a copy) and submitted to PTRC by 29 January 1999 by post OR by fax OR by
e-mail.  Please use only one of these methods, otherwise duplication
occurs.

The language of the Conference is English.  Speakers will need to be
able to present the paper, answer questions and take part in discussion
in English.  If necessary, PTRC can arrange to have a committee member
present to help with language, if we are notified well in advance.








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