The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) will be held in Jaipur, India in December 2009. The City of Jaipur is located in the State of Rajasthan in the Northwest part of India. It is located about 250 km from New Delhi and Agra (the home of the Taj Mahal).The IATBR Conference series is recognized worldwide as the premier occasion for networking with fellow travel behaviour researchers, sharing cutting-edge research and development through high-impact presentations, learning about the latest techniques in the field, and defining the research agenda for the profession. Following on the successful series of past IATBR Conferences, the 12th conference will serve as a venue to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world who aim to understand, model, and measure travel behaviour, and who apply travel behaviour research methods to the development and evaluation of transport policies in a wide variety of economic, demographic, socio-cultural, and geographic contexts.
IATBR is pleased to organize the 12th conference in Jaipur, a city rich in culture and heritage, in the Northwestern part of India. This conference is being brought to India at a time of rapid change and development in the country and the global subregion as a whole. Over the past decade, India has invested heavily in its transport infrastructure with new multilane roadways, international airports, and metro rail systems in cities across the country. The Indian Railways is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world and is the world's largest commercial employer. The rapid rise of air travel, vehicle ownership, income, and technology penetration in the population has transformed lifestyles and contributed to major shifts in the urban landscape. The country is getting ready for the release of the people's car, the Tata Nano, and the conference is scheduled to take place about one year after the introduction of this car in the Indian market, offering a key opportunity to discuss the impact that this product has had on human activity patterns, location choices, transportation network performance, and travel behaviour.
Following the IATBR tradition, the conference will primarily consist of workshops, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions. Keynote papers will be presented in plenary sessions, invited resource papers will be presented in interactive-discussion format workshops, and contributed papers will be presented in parallel sessions. In addition, one or more poster sessions may be introduced in the program to accommodate the growing number of papers received by this conference series and to provide a forum for post-graduate students (Masters and Doctoral) to present their work. Interactive discussions at the workshops will focus on a "theme" or "topic" and lead to the development of a research agenda for the particular theme or topic. Workshop themes are currently being finalized by the program committee and will be available soon at the conference website (http://www.iatbr2009.org).
IATBR is pleased to organize the 12th conference in Jaipur, a city rich in culture and heritage, in the Northwestern part of India. This conference is being brought to India at a time of rapid change and development in the country and the global subregion as a whole. Over the past decade, India has invested heavily in its transport infrastructure with new multilane roadways, international airports, and metro rail systems in cities across the country. The Indian Railways is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world and is the world's largest commercial employer. The rapid rise of air travel, vehicle ownership, income, and technology penetration in the population has transformed lifestyles and contributed to major shifts in the urban landscape. The country is getting ready for the release of the people's car, the Tata Nano, and the conference is scheduled to take place about one year after the introduction of this car in the Indian market, offering a key opportunity to discuss the impact that this product has had on human activity patterns, location choices, transportation network performance, and travel behaviour.
Following the IATBR tradition, the conference will primarily consist of workshops, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions. Keynote papers will be presented in plenary sessions, invited resource papers will be presented in interactive-discussion format workshops, and contributed papers will be presented in parallel sessions. In addition, one or more poster sessions may be introduced in the program to accommodate the growing number of papers received by this conference series and to provide a forum for post-graduate students (Masters and Doctoral) to present their work. Interactive discussions at the workshops will focus on a "theme" or "topic" and lead to the development of a research agenda for the particular theme or topic. Workshop themes are currently being finalized by the program committee and will be available soon at the conference website (http://www.iatbr2009.org).