WSTLUR 2021-: World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021-old Portland State University Portland, OR, United States, August 9-13, 2021 |
Conference website | http://wstlur.org/symposium/2021/ |
Abstract registration deadline | February 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | February 15, 2021 |
We are pleased to announce that the 2021 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, August 9-13, 2021. It is the fourth triennial convening of WSTLUR—the premier conference of international researchers in transportation and land use.
Submission Guidelines
We seek original, full-length submissions on all the themes described below. 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. Papers must be submitted by February 15, 2021. WSTLUR membership is not required to submit a paper.
Each conference registrant may be a co-author on multiple papers, but there is a limit of one presentation per registrant. Sessions will be developed from high-quality papers received and authors of a select number of papers will be invited, based upon their conference paper reviews, to resubmit their papers for a second round of reviews for publication in the Journal of Transport and Land Use.
WSTLUR is seeking submission from diverse disciplines and will be welcoming case studies especially from developing countries.
Cross-cutting Themes
Social Justice and Racial Equity
Equity and justice are central to all areas of transportation and land use research. WSTLUR is committed to elevating these issues and we encourage papers that address this theme in all of our tracks below.
COVID-19
The global pandemic has had a profound impact on our lives. WSTLUR 2021 would like to highlight papers that explore the transportation and land use connections to the spread of COVID-19, its impacts, and potential preventative measures across any of our tracks below.
Paper Tracks
Housing and transport
This track explores the various links between housing development, location choice, and travel outcomes, including both affordable and market rate housing. Topics include but are not limited to the broad areas of housing development process, parking provision & automobile ownership, housing constraints and neighborhood choice, gentrification and travel, self-selection bias, and housing value and transportation amenities.
For more information or questions please contact: Kristina Currans, University of Arizona, curransk@email.arizona.edu or Andrew Guthrie, University of Memphis, guthrie1@memphis.edu.
Networks and land use
Land use and transport networks co-evolve. How does the growth (or decline) in transport networks influence land use patterns, and vice versa? How do network structure and land use patterns affect accessibility? How can future design consider transport networks and land use patterns together as technology changes?
For more information or questions please contact: David Levinson, University of Sydney, david.levinson@sydney.edu.au or Jie Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, huangjie@igsnrr.ac.cn.
Integrated Land Use-Transport Models
This theme calls for papers that integrate land use models with transport models. All levels of integration from loosely coupled to tightly integrated are welcome, as long as information from one model is used in the other model. We are looking in particular for novel model designs, new ideas for model integration and models that use innovative data sources.
For more information or questions please contact: Rolf Moeckel, Technical University of Munich, rolf.moeckel@tum.de or Masanobu Kii, Kagawa University, kii@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp.
New Mobilities
How do newly emerging disruptive technologies shape or change transportation and land use systems? How can we integrate technological and land use strategies to achieve long term planning goals? What is the role of land use in smart cities? Specific topics include the connection between land use and transportation systems with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and new ICT-enabled products and services such as automated vehicles, new energy technologies, big data applications, ridesharing systems, real-time traveler information, and smart cities in general.
For more information or questions please contact: John MacArthur, Portland State University, macarthur@pdx.edu or Haotian Zhong, Renmin University, haotianzhong@gmail.com.
Freight Issues
Freight demand is becoming more diverse with e-commerce derived flows adding to the more traditional freight movements. These flows, destined for both residential and office locations, and including a new range of commodities (e.g. groceries and fast food), are creating both challenges and opportunities for shippers, carriers and retailers. New logistical processes are being introduced to address changes in freight demand, for example, parcel lockers, mobile distribution centers, and new modes of freight transportation such as autonomous freight delivery.
For more information or questions please contact: Miguel Jaller, University of California Davis, mjaller@ucdavis.edu or Cara Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, wangx18@rpi.edu.
Latin America
As the Global South region with the highest rates of urbanization and veryhigh levels of income inequalities, Latin America can provide leading examples and cautionary tales regarding land development and urban transportation. Diverse papers on Latin America are welcome, although we are interested in contributions that examine: Land development impacts of transport sector policy reform, transportation and travel behavior impacts of land and land use policies, health effects of transportation and built environment investments, specific cases of transport and land use integration around mass transit, and evaluation of national and regional incentives (financial or otherwise)aimed at encouraging increased transport and land development integration
For more information or questions please contact: Erick Guerra, University of Pennsylvania, erickg@design.upenn.edu or Daniel Rodriguez, University of California Berkeley, danrod@berkeley.edu.
Accessibility and Quality of Life (NECTAR Special Session)
Accessibility, the ease of reaching destinations, is a comprehensive performance measure to monitor the land use and transport systems performance in any region around the world. Transport planners across the globe often advocate transport investments to increase accessibility and promote (local or regional) economic development. A more comprehensive approach would be to promote quality of life. The goal of this session will be to explore the relationship between accessibility and quality of life and how planning for accessibility can improve the quality of life for individuals in a region.
For more information or questions please contact: Karst Geurs, University of Twente, k.t.geurs@utwente.nl or Ahmed M. El-Geneidy, McGill University, ahmed.elgeneidy@mcgill.ca.
Public Transportation
The focus of this call is to share innovative and novel ideas about the next generation public transport systems. The increasing demand and range of urban mobility make public transport systems a critical solution in accelerating the transition to sustainable urban development. With the development of new tools, technology, ubiquitous data, and new transit modes (e.g., paratransit, shared mobility, and micro-mobility), the planning and operation of next generation public transport systems becomes an emerging question for researchers, planners, operators, and decision makers.
For more information or questions please contact: Ehab Diab, University of Saskatchewan, ehd361@mail.usask.ca or Emily Grise, University of Alberta, egrise@ualberta.ca.
Emerging Data & Technologies
The rapid advance of technology has enabled passive data collection through state-of-the-art resources such as Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), Electric Vehicles (EVs), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, smartphone applications, LiDAR, traffic cameras, road sensors, social media, and volunteered geographic information. These emerging data and technologies have enabled a series of innovations to deal with transport operations, planning, and management, but they have also shaped the behavior of system users. What opportunities and challenges do these emerging data and technologies create for transport researchers and practitioners today? This call for papers seeks studies exploring emerging data and technologies with regard to transport systems such as automobiles, public transit, walking, biking, and freight.
For more information or questions please contact: Alireza Ermagun, Mississippi State University, AErmagun@cee.msstate.edu or Geoff Boeing, University of Southern California, boeing@usc.edu.
Health
The links between transportation, the built environment, and health are many - air quality, crashes, physical activity, stress, noise, e.g. In this call, WSTLUR welcomes papers from a variety of disciplines that establish correlations and causal links, model outcomes, test policies, and build theories across the broad range of ways health intersects our transport and land use.
For more information or questions please contact: Jennifer Kent, University of Sydney, jennifer.kent@sydney.edu.au or Ipek Sener, Texas A&M University, i-sener@tti.tamu.edu.
Conference Co-ChairsKelly Clifton, Portland State University, kclifton@pdx.edu; Jennifer Dill, jdill@pdx.edu; and Yingling Fan, University of Minnesota, yingling@umn.edu. Local HostsJennifer Dill and Kelly Clifton, Portland State University, United States. PublicationSessions will be developed from high-quality papers received and authors of a select number of papers will be invited, based upon their conference paper reviews, to resubmit their papers for a second round of reviews for publication in the Journal of Transport and Land Use. VenueThe conference will be held in at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, United States. ContactAll questions about submissions should be emailed the theme leaders listed above, or to one of the Conference Co-Chairs: Kelly Clifton, Portland State University, kclifton@pdx.edu; Jennifer Dill, jdill@pdx.edu; or Yingling Fan, University of Minnesota, yingling@umn.edu. More informationSee the WSTLUR 2021 website for more information. |