2024 WSTLUR: 2024 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research Bogota, Colombia, June 17-20, 2024

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) will be held in Bogotá, Colombia from June 17-20, 2024 at Universidad de los Andes. We seek original papers on the interaction of transport and land use from the broad set of disciplines engaged in transport and land use research.

The WSTLUR 2024 International Conference aims to bring together scholars and policymakers in transportation and land use research to share insights and ideas on how innovation and technology, are transforming urban landscapes and transportation systems in our post-pandemic world. What strategies can be employed to navigate these changes? With traditional and emerging transport services operating worldwide, the 2024 Conference will also highlight the transport and land use systems in the Global South, ranging from BRT systems operating in Latin America to various forms of formal and informal mobility services co-existing in Asia and Africa.

We are specifically interested in seeking papers from the themes described below; however, papers outside of these themes can be submitted to the general call. Theme leaders will be in charge of the paper review and selection process. Questions about the specific themes should be directed to the theme leaders identified below. Detailed descriptions of these themes are below.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We will welcome full papers. The length of each paper, including the abstract, text, references, and tables, must not exceed 7,500 words. Include a title page with the title, authors, affiliations, and track theme. The abstract should describe the work and findings and be no more than 250 words. You can read more detailed author guidelines here: https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

Selected papers will be published in the Journal of Transport and Land Use (CiteScore 4.2) and in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (CiteScore 3.3).

Conference organization

Conference themes and committees

1. Accessibility analysis in practice: Bridging the gap
2. Equity and Inclusion, spatial justice, vulnerable populations
3. Public transport (networks), BRT, integration of public transport with cycling and land use, public transport ridership/satisfaction
4. Active travel and micromobility
5. Electric and Automatic Vehicles and alternative fuels, AVs, New technologies, shared electric mobility, Smart Cities
6. Interaction of Land Use and Transport: Spatial analyses and models
7. Travel behavior and psychology, travel experiences and perceived accessibility
8. Emerging transportation and land use issues in Latin America and the Global South
9. Post-Covid, ICT, land use, telework
10. Freight, city logistics and e-commerce
11. Housing, Land Use and Travel
12. Other issues in transport and land use 

Committee chairs

1. Ahmed El-Geneidy, Hisham Negm, and Meredith Alousi-Jones, McGill University
2. Raktim Mitra, Toronto Metropolitan University and Kevin Manaugh, McGill University
3. Eleni Bardaka, North Carolina State University; Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson, Technical University of Denmark; Oded Cats, Delft University of Technology
4. Eva Heinen, Technical University Dortmund; Patrick Singleton, Utah State University; Dillon Fitch-Polse, University of California – Davis; Susan Handy, University of California – Davis
5. Dick Ettema, Utrecht University
6. Rolf Moeckel, Technical University of Munich and Mahmudur Fatmi, University of British Columbia
7. Veronique Van Acker, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; Donggen Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University; Jonas De Vos, University College London
8. Erik Vergel-Tovar, Universidad de los Andes, Mengqiu (Matthew) Cao, University of Westminster and Sylvia He, Chinese University of Hong Kong
9. João de Abreu e Silva, IST, Universidade de Lisboa
10. Leise Oliveira, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais and Rui Colaço, IST, Universidade de Lisboa
11. Kristina Currans, University of Arizona and Kelly Clifton, University of British Columbia
12. Dea Van Lierop, Utrecht University and Sylvia He, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Invited Keynote speakers

• Professor Lake Sagaris (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Professor Julio Dávila (Development Planning Unit, University College London)
• Professor David M. Levinson (University of Sydney)

Publication

2024 WSTLUR proceedings will be published on the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research webpage (http://wstlur.org/). 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to je.sanchezg1@uniandes.edu.co and js.guzmanm@uniandes.edu.co.