Papers for various sessions will be selected on the basis of extended abstracts (500-1000 words). Interested authors should submit their abstracts electronically at the conference website (http://www.iatbr2009.org) by October 31, 2008. The conference welcomes submissions on all aspects and facets of travel behaviour research and application. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Passenger/freight travel behaviour analysis, modeling, and forecasting (urban and inter-city)
- Travel survey methods including stated choice experiments
- Telecommunications - Time Use - Travel interactions
- Tourism, leisure, and recreation
- Microsimulation of individuals, households, and organizations
- Planning methods, policy formulation, and policy impact analysis
- Urban form, travel behaviour, air quality (emissions), and global climate change
- Transportation network analysis and supply modeling
- Route choice, mental maps, and way-finding behaviour
- Time-space and agent interactions in activity-travel analysis
- Integrated land use - travel demand - transportation supply models
- Location choice, activity patterns, and quality of life
- Travel behaviour of special population groups
- Mobility and travel behaviour in developing countries
- Social implications of accessibility and social networking
- Sustainable transportation - paratransit, two-wheelers, and non-motorized transportation
- Keeping public transit competitive and viable in an era of growing auto ownership
Authors will be notified at the end of February, 2009 if their abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Full papers will be due at the conference website in August 2009. At least one co-author must be pre-registered if the paper is to be included in the final program and the CD-proceedings distributed at the conference.
View the one-page call for abstracts here.