TDM2023: 11th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management Accra, Ghana, September 18-20, 2023

Travel demand management (TDM) tools and techniques have evolved over the last few decades to include new policies, technologies, vehicles and fuel types. Other soft measures have also been introduced, such as raising awareness and education policies to improve the transportation system's efficiency and promote further use of more efficient and smarter modes of transportation.  TDM aims to improve the transportation system's efficiency and promote further use of more efficient and smarter modes of transportation to achieve a sustainable transport system.

The transport policy’s vision is that everyone should have the same access to transport services to be able to go where they want or need to go and to be able to do so easily, safely, confidently and without extra cost. A successful strategy needs transparency, ambition, and practical actions across all industry sectors and users. With this in mind, great efforts have been made to provide transportation professionals with the data, tools and approaches to help them to understand and achieve gender equity in transport and to help them to better incorporate gender issues in their planning and design.

The objective of the 11th International Travel Demand Management Symposium (TDM 2023) will be to share new ideas on the opportunities and challenges the current global challenges present to travel demand management in the wake of Covid-19 and global environmental challenges.

TDM 2023 will be organised under the theme “Global Challenges and TDM: Opportunities for future development” and will focus on all areas of Travel Demand Management topics”. The TDM 2023 symposium will provide three days of intellectual exchange of research findings with leading researchers and professionals in the field. It will be a platform for best practice sharing and networking. The event will be an opportunity to develop and drive forward synergy between academics, researchers, policymakers and industry. Additionally, the conference seeks to provide an exchange of ideas and networking between researchers from Europe, the USA and their counterparts in sub–Saharan Africa.

Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract for a paper, a poster or a proposed workshop on a relevant topic, including but not limited to the following.

• New challenges in public transportation systems
• Covid-19 impact on travel demand.
• New concepts, strategies and benchmarking for public transport and ITS policies
• Travel demand analysis and forecasting
• Transport User's attitudes and mode choices towards transport.
• Inclusivity in automated mobility.
• Climate change
• Digital technology
• Big data
• Automation, amongst other themes
• Accessibility, equity, and gender perspectives
• Transport safety and Security
• Informal and Shared mobility (paratransit modes, motorised 2 and 3-wheelers)

Submission Guidelines

We want to receive contributions on case studies, approaches, challenges and opportunities arising from our current mobility context considering the mobility challenges in the face of Covid-19, as well as papers on shared mobilities, concepts, Electric vehicles, Autonomous driving, understanding of users’ perception, customer satisfaction, and reflections of interaction and integration of existing and emerging transportation systems and how they affect travel demand management in “smart” cities, analytical approaches and policy.

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 acceptance.

The requirement for the final submission is as follows:

• Authors are requested to provide a structured abstract of 200-300 words to include context, methodology, findings and conclusions
• Each extended abstract should comprise four pages, this will exclude tables, figures, references and acknowledgements. Longer papers will be considered if justification is provided by the corresponding authors.
• The text should be typed using Times New Roman 12-point font and double-spaced.
• Pages should be numbered.
• Authors' names should appear in order of authorship with the corresponding author indicated. Addresses and contact details of authors, as well as affiliations, should be included.
• The total number of pages of the manuscript should be provided.
• .Authors are instructed to include up to five keywords.
• Tables and figures should be explicitly mentioned in the 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.
• All references used in preparing your manuscript must be properly acknowledged. References should be numbered consecutively in alphabetical order and identified in the text using the author's last name and year of publication.
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  Committees

  Program Committee

  • Prof Wafaa Saleh (Chair), Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Prof Michael Bell, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Prof Gerd Sammer, University 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, University 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, University of Texas, USA
  • Prof Peter White, University of Westminster, UK
  • Prof Masao Kuwahara, Tohoku University, Japan
  • Prof Jan-Dirk Schmoecker, Kyoto University, Japan

  Organizing Committee

  • Prof Charles Anum Adams, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Prof. Helen Essandoh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Dr Augustus Ababio-Donkor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Prof. Yaw Adubofour Tuffour, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Prof. Clifford Amoako, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Dr Gift Dumedah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Dr Kenneth Adomako Tutu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Dr Ato Andam Arkoful, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • Prof Wafaa Saleh (Chair), Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Prof Achille Fonzone, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Dr Grigorious Fountas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Prof. Abena Obiri -Yeboah, Kumasi Technical University, Ghana
  • Ing. Naa Lamkai Quaye Ballard, CSIR - Building and Road Research Institute, Ghana
  • Dr Williams Ackaah, CSIR - Building and Road Research Institute, Ghana
  • Dr Thomas Kalowale Ojo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
  • Dr Patrick Amoah Bekoe, Department of Feeder Roads, Ghana
  • Ing. David Kwatia Nyante, Ghana Institution of Engineering
  • Ing. Mavis Allotey, Ghana Institution of Engineering

  Invited Speakers

  • Prof. Roger Behrens, Centre for Transport Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Prof. Jerome Chenal, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Hon. Kwasi Amoako Nuamah, Minister of Roads and Highways, Ghana

  Contact

  All questions about submissions should be emailed to aadonkor@knust.edu.gh

  Sponsors

  • Ministry of Roads and Highways, Ghana
  • Ghana Institution of Engineering
  • Delin Consult Ltd
  • ACON Limited