[sustran] Call for papers for TRB 2007 Annual Meeting ...

Madhav Badami, Prof. madhav.g.badami at mcgill.ca
Thu Apr 20 08:09:51 JST 2006


Hello all,

I would like to bring to your attention the following two calls for papers. Please consider submitting; also, please publicize these calls to people you think might be interested.

Many thanks,

Madhav Badami


1) Request for Papers for a Session on 
Two and Three-wheeled Motor Vehicles in the Developing Countries
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2007

Sponsor: ABE90 Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries
Committee Chair: Dr. Ralph Gakenheimer, rgaken at mit.edu

Co-Sponsor: ANF30 Committee on Motorcycles and Mopeds
Committee Chair: Stephen B. Garets, Steve.Garets at oregonstate.edu

Motor vehicle ownership and activity are growing rapidly in Asia, owing to rapid urbanization and growing urban incomes. This phenomenon, coupled with financial, technological and infrastructural constraints, is causing massive adverse social and environmental impacts, such as congestion and air pollution, traffic related injuries and deaths, compromised access and mobility, and displacement of the urban poor. While the local impacts are serious, there are significant implications for global issues such as energy security and climate change as well.

An important characteristic of the rapid motorization in Asia is the predominance of two-wheeled motor vehicles, which have made Asian cities as motorized as those in other regions with several times the GDP per capita, such as Mexico City. While providing affordable mobility to millions, these vehicles, along with three-wheeled motor vehicles, which are an important for-hire public transport mode, contribute significantly to transport impacts, particularly on a passenger-kilometre basis. The challenge in relation to two and three-wheeled motor vehicles is to mitigate their transport impacts, while minimizing policy impacts for the users. We invite papers that address the following issues related to two and three-wheeled vehicles in Asia:

•	Vehicle ownership and purchase choices and motivations
•	Trip behaviour, trip reduction, and feasibility of shifting two and three-wheeled motor vehicle trips to public transit
•	Energy consumption and emissions – technological, institutional and behavioural dimensions; modeling; control measures, including I&M 
•	Road safety, including vehicle design for road safety
•	Policy-making and implementation, monitoring and enforcement

Papers for the 2007 Annual Meeting must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2006. When submitting your paper, please indicate ABE90 on the Submission Review Form. Papers willcan not be accepted after August 1 because of the time required for peer review and program development. Paper submission information is posted on the TRB website http://www.trb.org/meeting/. Authors who submit papers in response to this call are requested to send the paper number and title by August 3 to madhav.badami at mcgill.ca. For additional information, please contact:

Prof. Madhav G. Badami
School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Tel: (514) 398-3183; Fax: (514) 398-8376; E-mail: madhav.badami at mcgill.ca

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2) Request for Papers for a Session on Urban Transportation and Land Development in Developing Countries
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2007

Sponsor: ABE90 Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries
Committee Chair: Dr. Ralph Gakenheimer, rgaken at mit.edu
Co Sponsor: ADB10 Committee on Travel Behavior and Values
Committee Chair: Dr. Ram M. Pendyala, pendyala at eng.usf.edu
Co Sponsor: ADD30 Committee on Transportation and Land Development
Committee Co-Chairs: Jonathan L. Gifford, jgifford at gmu.edu and Dr. Ruth L. Steiner, rsteiner at ufl.edu 

In many cities in developing countries in Asia, Africa and South America local authorities face major challenges in trying to accommodate the demands generated by growing and rapidly motorizing populations. Transportation planners in these cities lack the data and analytical methods to understand the effects of the growing demand for travel and rapid changes in land use as the cities try to accommodate new, as well wealthier, residents. In such a context, integration of land use and transportation planning is key. Analyzing the nexus between transportation infrastructure and land use patterns while sustaining economic growth and maintaining livable communities is far more complicated when growth is rapid. Some recent research projects in Latin America and Asia suggest that it is possible to incorporate the effects of land use within travel behavior models. These models can help authorities make more effective transportation and land development interventions, and can shape current urban growth policies and investments. 

For this session, we invite papers that address the nexus between land use, travel behavior and environmental impacts in a developing context. Papers that address technical issues in transportation modeling as well as institutional and policy responses to the coordination of transportation and land development in rapidly urbanizing cities are also welcome. 

When submitting a paper for the next TRB Annual Meeting please indicate ABE90 on the Submission Review Form. Papers for the 2007 Annual Meeting must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2006. Papers cannot be accepted after August 1 because of the time required for peer review and program development. Paper submission information is posted on the TRB website http://www.trb.org/meeting/. In addition, authors who have submitted papers in response to this call are requested to send the paper number and title by August 3 to sumeeta at deas.harvard.edu. 

Additional information about this call for papers may be obtained from:
Dr. Sumeeta Srinivasan
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138
Tel: (617) 496-4413; Fax: (617) 496-1457
Email: sumeeta at deas.harvard.edu 



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"As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
Madhav G. Badami, PhD
School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
McGill University
Macdonald-Harrington Building
815 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
 
Phone: 514-398-3183 (Work); 514-486-2370 (Home)
Fax: 514-398-8376; 514-398-1643
URLs: www.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning
www.mcgill.ca/mse
e-mail: madhav.badami at mcgill.ca




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