Travel demand management (TDM) tools and techniques have progressed over the last few decades to include new policies, technologies, vehicle and fuel types. Other soft measures have also been introduced such as raising awareness and education policies.  The aim of TDM is to improve the efficiency of the transportation system and promote further use of more efficient and smarter modes of transportation in the sense to achieve a sustainable transport system. The Public transportation system and ITS are at the heart of that aim. The 9th International  (TDM) symposium will be organised by Edinburgh Napier University, and will take place from 19^th -21^st June 2019, at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh.  The TDM symposium provides three days of intellectual exchange of your research findings with leading researchers and professionals in the field. It will be a platform for best practice sharing and networking with these researchers.

The symposium invites contributions on all areas of Travel Demand Management topics including but not exclusive to:

• New challenges in public transportation systems
• New concepts, strategies and benchmarking for public transport and ITS policies
• Travel demand analysis and forecasting
• Transit planning and operation
• Public awareness and impacts
• Assessing impacts of TDM policies and strategies
• assessment of TDM tools and policies
• Travel demand, land use, and urban development
• Public transportation and information provision
• TDM and parking management
• Shared use and ownership
• ITS mobility
• Behavioral aspects in TDM
• Activity-based travel demand modeling
• Economic and environmental implications of TDM
• TDM and automated vehicle systems
• Contribution of TDM measures to climate goals

The symposium promises to bring together the national and international TDM researchers to brainstorm ideas and research findings on TDM theoretical and practical investigations.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.   Extended abstracts for initial consideration are invited; successful authors will be requested to finalise their extended abstract following accpetance.

The requirement for the final submission are as follows:

1. Each extended abstract should comprise four pages. This will exclude tables, figures, references and acknowledgments. Longer papers will be considered if justification is provided from the corresponding authors.
2. The text should be typed using Times New Roman 12-point font and double spaced.
3. Pages should be numbered.
4. Names of authors should appear in order of authorship with the corresponding author indicated. Address and contact details of authors as well as affiliations should be included.
5. The total number of pages of the manuscript should be provided.
6. Authors are requested to provide a structured abstract of 200-300 words to include context, methodology, findings and conclusions.
7. Authors are instructed to include up to five key words. 
8. Tables and figures should be explicitly mentioned in text and be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they are cited in the text (e.g., Table 1, Table 2,…). Tables and figures should also include a title. 
9. All references used in preparing your manuscript must be properly acknowledged. References should be numbered consecutively in alphabetical order and should be identified in text using author last name and year of publication.

Committees

International Committee

• Prof Wafaa Saleh (Chair), Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Prof Michael Bell, University of Sydney, Australia 
• Prof Gerd Sammer, Univesity of Natural Resources and Applied Life, Austria 
• Prof John Nelson, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Dr Kathryn Stewart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 
• Mr Richard Llewellyn, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Prof Jason Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
• Prof Peter Jones, University College London, UK 
• Prof Yi-Chang Chio, The University of Arizona, USA 
• Prof Juan do Dios Ortúzar Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
• Prof Manfred Neun, Honorary ECF President
• Prof Stephen Ison, Loughborough University, UK
• Prof Elisabetta Cherchi, Univesity of Newcastle, UK
• Prof John Preston, University of Southampton, UK
• Prof Agachai Sumalee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Prof Glenn Lyons, University of the West of England, UK
• Prof Chandra Bhat, Unviersity of Texas, USA
• Prof Peter White, University of Westminster, UK
• Prof Masao Kuwahara, Tohoku University, Japan
• Prof Jan-Dirk Schmoecker, Kyoto Univeristy, Japan

Organizing committee

• Prof Wafaa Saleh (Chair), Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Kathryn Stewart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Mr Richard Llewellyn, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Grigorious Fountas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Prof Tom Rye, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Achille Fonzone, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Steve Cassidy, The ESP Group, UK

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to TDM2019@napier.ac.uk