PIARC-Arusha2018: Transport in the Fourth Revolution: The Dynamical Low-Income World International Conference Centre Arusha, Tanzania, November 14-30, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.piarc.org/ressources/documents/INTERNATIONALS-SEMINARS-PROCEEDINGS/International-Seminar-Arusha-November-2018/27533,International-Seminar-First-Announcement-TC-A2-Road-Transport-System-Economics-and-Social-Development-Arusha-November-2018-World-Road-Association-PIARC.pdf |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=piarcarusha2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 31, 2018 |
Submission deadline | September 16, 2018 |
Overview
The fourth revolution seeks total connectivity. It views a physical and biological world interwoven in digital technology. The first revolution hinged on the steam engine and triggered a wave of industrialisation and urbanisation. That occurred in the 18-19 century. The second revolution preceded World War 1. It was marked by industrial growth triggered by electric power. The third has been digital and started in the eighties. The emerging Fourth Revolution seeks to use the digital technology to connect the world in totality. The creating of this thought can be credited to scholarship under the World Economic Forum.
In the emerging new world, transport is more than a spatial network. It is a sociological space enabling the interconnectedness of the fourth revolution.
The seminar will focus on the lower income countries. These countries struggle with challenges associated with all the four revolutions. These lower income countries face strongly dynamical policy spaces. In these complex spaces, the transport sector intertwines with agriculture, health, education and others. The seminar will examine this complexity - the issues, actors and platforms.
We invite papers that address transport infrastructure through a lens of the complexity above. The papers will fall under any of the themes below.
Please send your abstract (max 300 words) by 20 April 2018.
List of Topics
Theme 1: Moulding of Policy
Who are the actors? What are the issues? How has the platform evolved since the emergence of development partners, which traces back to the period between the second and third revolutions?
Theme 2: Delivering Infrastructure
How do we appraise transport investment in the dynamical world? How do we manage the asset?
Theme 3: Evaluating Investment
What frames are we using for evaluating the investment?
Committees
PIARC Committee on Transport System Economics and Ministry of Transport (Tanzania)
Invited Speakers
To be announced
Publication
PIARC-Arusha2018 proceedings will be published in 2019 by PIARC
Venue
Arusha (Tanzania), International Conference Centre
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Arusha2018@lyciar.com