(reserved to members)

• Tae Hoon Oum, President of the WCTRS
• Sagar Patni, Chair of the Young conference – University of Florida, USA

Moderator: Aline Fernandes – Loughborough University, UK

• Autonomous Inland Navigation: a literature review and extracontractual liability issue, Camilla Domenighini – University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Social acceptability of shared autonomous vehicles from avoiders to innovators in Hannover (Germany), Leen De Paepe – Ghent University, Belgium
• Consumer Logistics Decision-Making about Hyperconnected Last-Mile Services: A Review, Merve Seher Cebeci – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Reserved to the members of WCTRS Scientific Committee.

Reserved to the members of WCTRS Scientific Committee.

Moderator: Léa Zachariou – Gustave Eiffel University, France

• WTP quality estimates in commute mode choice: issues of performance comparison under sample size and balance impacts, Nikita Gusarov – Grenoble Alpes University, France
• Optimizing intermodal commuting by way of detours and breaks: Evidence of micromobility users in France, Dylan Moinse – Gustave Eiffel University, France
• Are route stabilities the same when go to and get off work? An empirical investigation on route choices using passenger vehicle trajectory data, Jihao Deng, Chris Bachmann, Qiangqiang Shangguan, Quan Yuan – University of Waterloo
• Care-Driven Informality: The Case of Community Transport, Léa Ravensbergen – McMaster University, Canada

Reserved to the members of WCTRS Steering Committee.

Moderator: Camilla Domenighini – University of Antwerp, Belgium

• How does structural reform affect cost and demand in railway, Sidi Sun – University of Leeds, UK
• The slow and difficult implementation of high-speed rail interoperability in Europe: the case of the Atlantic Corridor, Philippe Bairras, Iñigo Aguas Ardaiz – Gustave Eiffel University, France
• Assessing the competitiveness of decarbonized rail alternatives, Antoine Belleguie – Gustave Eiffel University, France
• Role and issues surrounding children ICT use on board French trains, Léa Zachariou – Gustave Eiffel University, France

Reserved to the members of WCTRS Steering Committee.

Moderator: Antoine Robichet – Gustave Eiffel University, France

What is the role of participation in mobility planning in the Global South? Reflections from Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil, Aline Fernandes Barata - Loughborough University, UK

Moderator: Antoine Robichet – Gustave Eiffel University, France

Laetitia Dablanc, leader of the WCTRS-Y, and colleagues will share their thoughts and respond to questions from the audience on career development, including strategies for position search, publication, and all other issues shared by young academics in transport research.

Interactive tools will be used during the session.

• Catherine Morency & Martin Trépanier, Chair of the Conference & Chair of the local organizing committee    
• Tae Oum, WCTRS president - Opening address of the 16th WCTR
• Christian Dea - Chief Economist and Director General of Transportation Economic Analysis Directorate
• Marc Blanchet, Executive Director, Transit Projects, Infrastructures and Systems, Montreal Metropolitan Transport Authority - main sponsor
• Eric Allan Caldwell, City of Montreal Elected Official and Chair of Montreal Transit Authority - Welcome to Montreal
• Marie-Claude Léonard, CEO of the Montreal Transit Authority - Transit initiatives
• Rémi Quirion, Quebec’s chief Scientist - Innovation policy
• Annie Ross, CIRRELT’s president
• Lori Tavasszy, WCTRS Scientific Chair - Conference details

• Introduction (Tae Oum, president of the WCTRS)
• Optimization, Modeling and Assessment of Smart City Transportation Systems (Prof Hesham Rakha)
• Real-time management of traffic lights — improving mobility and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (Prof. Leandro Coelho)
• Network vulnerability,  and Resilience Analysis: A data-driven Approach (Prof. Lina Kattan)
• Towards Safer Urban Networks: The Role of Advanced Technologies and Big Data (Prof. Tarek Sayed)

1. Willingness to Limit Purchases in "Panic Buying" Environments: The Latin-American Case. Holguin-Veras J.  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
2. Changes in Household Inventories of Critical Supplies: The Latin-American Case. Holguin-Veras J.  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
3. Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown measures on local traffic-related air pollution in three Latin-American Metropolises. Nieto-Rascón O., Lozano A. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
4. Use and the intention to use BRT services before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Colombian case. Cantillo V. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
5. Shortage of construction materials and interruption of the supply chain due to Covid-19 from the perspective of the Caribbean islands. Valdés, D. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
6.  Mobility trends in Chile in COVD-19: The role of income and gender inequality. Carrasco, J.A. Universidad de Concepción, Chile.

• Welcome remark from the WCTRS president, Tae Hoon Oum, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Report from the WCTRS COVID-19 Task Force, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, the immediate past president of WCTRS, Chubu University, Japan; Junyi Zhang, School of Transportation, Southeast University, China (previously, Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Impacts of COVID-19 on the transport sector: Cases of major cities in China, Yacan Wang & Huiyu Zhou, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, China 
• Measures on public transport during the COVID pandemic and the changing travel demand, Varameth Vichiensan, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand
• How Covid-19 has changed transport policy? A case of the UK, Greg Marsden, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
• Identifying impacts of the pandemic's lockdowns on urban logistics, the case of Paris and France, Laetitia Dablanc, Logistics City Chair, University Gustave Eiffel, France
• Lessons learned for transforming seaports and freight transport systems, Thierry Vanelslander, Department of Transport and Regional Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• Effects of grocery hoarding during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jonas Flodén, John Magnus Roos, Johan Woxenius, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

13:50 Juan Antonio Carrasco Montagna (Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile).

14:40 Chandra Bhat (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tongji and WCTRs has long term relationship, Tongji held WCTRs Conference in 2016 and achieved great success. Tongji and WCTRs has built very close relationship and officially sign 1 Special sessions are meant to provide additional flavor to the conference besides regular technical sessions. The format of special session is flexible and it could be a panel discussion, invited talks, or selected paper presentations from shortlisted papers. If the proposed special session does not fall under one specific SIG, it may well be proposed under a Topic Area. 2 cooperation contract after the 2016 conference. With the great effort of 2 sides, Tongji University and WCTRs established “Tongji-WCTRs World Transport Research Center” in 2019, which is the first research center of WCTRs. It is necessary to continually enhance the cooperation the network especially in the post-pandemic period. Recently, with the quick development of technology, China has met new challenge and chance in transport sector. The wisdom and exchange between 2 sides become more important and necessary. The objectives of the session are to (1) highlight the concurrent critical viewpoints for maintaining mobility from energy competing with other energy consumers such as data center, climate change, and peoples’ quality of life, (2) continuously promote these issues by the cooperation with WCTRs,(3) introduce the research and development of Tongji university in recent years;(4) looking for more chances for cooperation chance to joint-degree, PhD enrollment, post-doctor project.(5) Visiting scholar program;(6)other cooperation chances.

PhD students’ grants holders for 2023 present their innovative research and discuss it with the audience. The PhD grants competition is one of the three activities of the WCTRS Young Researchers Initiative (WCTRS-Y). The overall objective of WCTRS-Y is to train/prepare young members of the Society for gradual promotion to take more senior positions in the activities. Active young members are seen as the future of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

• Introduction of the special session Tae Hoon Oum, President of the WCTRS
• Understanding the Impact of Pedestrian Intervention on Laziness and Car Dependency Reduction in a European Island Karyn Scerri, University of Malta, Malta / Innovation Grant
• How do managers evaluate country logistics performance for global supply chain decision making Debarshee Bhardwaj, University of Bremen, Germany / Prestige Grant
• Assessing complementary and competing interactions between transit and shared transportation modes Elodie Deschaintres, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada / Prestige Grant
• Effects of Mass Rapid Transit Systems (MRTS) on Changing Urban Landscape: A Remote Sensing-Based Study of Delhi Metro Vaibhav Puri, University of Delhi, India /Prestige Grant
• Final debate with authors Moderated by Laetitia Dablanc, WCTRS-Y leadeR

PANELISTS: Ken Button (George Mason University), Wouter Dewulf (University of Antwerp), Wolfgang Grimme (German Aerospace Center), Brian Pearce (Former Chief Economist, IATA), Barry Humphreys CBE (BKH Aviation)

The objectives of this special session are to i) presents a few challenges and opportunities provided by the digitalization and/for decarbonization of the maritime sector at sea, at the port and in the hinterland and ii) allow an open discussion between researchers and practitioners to highlights future research avenues. Open to all attendees to the WCTR, this session is co-organized by the Réseau Québec maritime (RQM) and the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT).

• Welcome speech (Jean-François Audy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières-CIRRELT-RQM)
• General introduction to digital transformation and decarbonization along the sea-port-hinterland chain (Claude Comtois, Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal-CIRRELT-RQM)
• Challenges and opportunites at sea (Capt. Gurjeet Warya, VP Business Development & Operations, True North Marine)
• Challenges and opportunites at the port (Geneviève Allard, Director Innovation, Logistics and Productivity, Trois-Rivières Port Authority)
• Challenges and opportunites in the hinterland (Emma Frejinger, Full professor, Université de Montréal- CIRRELT-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA))
• Q&A period by the animator (Audy) with the panel (Allard, Comtois, Frejinger, Warya)

This session aims to discuss applied Data Science Projects and Applications in Supply Chain Management, with a maritime focus. It analyses potentials from both, a scientific and an industry point of view to identify an applied path of research from a maritime base with a critical analysis.

• Quantitative Challenges of Resilient Supply Chains.  Leif Meier, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
• Applied Data Science in Transportation. An overview.  Maxime Lachaize, Accenture, Toronta, Canada.
• Digitalisation Trends  in Liner Shipping.  Johan Woxenius, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

After the keynote speech of Prof. Benoit Montreuil a debate will be staged to discuss the scope of the Physical Internet vision. This debate session is broken down into four sections: opening remarks, a rebuttal, a question-and-answer period by audience (for clarification of points) and closing remarks. Before the debate begins, the moderator shares the motion, and each audience member casts their vote. The voting breakdown is not shared publicly until the end of the debate. Intervenants: Benoît Montreuil, José Holguín-Veras, Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Mike Brown.The two teams select their stance (for/against) based on lottery system.

The main objective of the session is to share the outputs of a strategic project that is being conducted by the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) entitled “Global Research Alliance on Traffic and Safety Project“ in nine countries including Japan, China, UK, Germany, Italy, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, and Canada. Through this project, IATSS aims to provide an international study on Road Traffic Safety Culture in different countries with diverse cultural and social backgrounds. This project is part of IATSS efforts to study traffic safety culture globally, including countries with very heterogeneous driver population aiming to help the international community in improving road safety status through the prevention of road crashes. Traffic safety culture is seen as a contextual construct to define high and low risk groups of drivers, based on cultural perceptions that shape both general and personal attitudes and beliefs about traffic safety and specific driving behavior. In this session, presentations will be delivered to showcase the results of the project towards improving the understanding of the correlation between the characteristic of driving population, including cultural backgrounds, and the likelihood of risky driving behaviour.

• Overview of the IATSS Project (Prof. Hideki Nakamura)
• Presentation addressing the results of an international comparative study on driving attitudes and behaviors based on questionnaire surveys (Prof. Dr. Koji Suzuki) 
• Presentation on the association between national culture, economic development and road safety performance (Dr. Wouter Van den Berghe) 
• Presentation on modeling the determinants of traffic safety culture  (Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Shiomi)

The objective is to discuss the role of policy in achieving a sustainable transport (with a focus on electrification and mode change).

• 100% ZEV Sales by 2035? Policies to promote ZEV choice by consumers in California.  (David Bunch (UC Davis, USA))
• Some methodological difficulties to ensure strategic coherence (Alain Bonnafous (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France))
• Health arguments for sustainable transport: why active travel (Ahmadreza Faghih Imani (Imperial College London, UK))
• Smart Policies for Sustainable Transport (Todd Litman (Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada))

Many cities have recently adopted or are trying to implement Mobility as a Service (MaaS), which combines different modes of transportation or related assets into a single service. As several discussions have highlighted, the key to move MaaS forward is “integration”. However, a crucial question has yet to be clear: how can MaaS be integrated into and contribute to urban policies? From urban planner's perspective, it is essential to position MaaS to contribute to urban societal goals. This session explores how the integration aspect of MaaS can promote urban policies and, as a result, societal goals. The term "policy" encompasses various viewpoints, including the transport system, urban planning, carbon-free, and social inclusion.

• Gen Hayauchi, Designated Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, as s academic researcher of urban transportation planning
• TBD (From Sweden) , as a academic researcher of the relationship between policy makers and transport operators
• TBD (From UK), as a academic researcher of KPI and framework for inclusive society
• Caleb Winter or his colleague, Portland METRO, as a policy maker to share its expectation for MaaS

With the increasing complexity of logistics in City, it becomes more and more difficult to coordinate the efforts of all players to have a more sustainable and efficient way to operate. Through the World, we now see the creation of industrial clusters that are aimed to regroup these players, namely: port authorities, airport, railway companies, logistic providers, port terminal operators, ground carriers, shippers, government officials, city officials, university researchers, etc. In this session, the discussion aims to inform the audience about the existence of industrial clusters, how they are created and managed, what is their role and which benefits they bring to the communities.

• Welcome speech – Martin Trépanier, CIRRELT
• Logistics in Wallonia, the Innovation Cluster dedicated to the Transport, Logistics and Mobility sector in Wallonia – Bernard Piette, head of Logistics in Wallonia
• CargoM – The Montreal Metropolitan Logistics and Transportation Cluster – Mathieu Charbonneau, head of CargoM
• Discussion, Q & A 

• Purpose of the Task Force (Promotion of Efficiency in our City’s Transit System) Tae Hoon Oum,  University of British Columbia, Canada
• Methodology, Approaches, Scope:    Kun Wang , Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Chunyan Yu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
• Country and Continental Team leaders:  
  • Europe: Prof. Pierluigi Coppola, Milan Polytechnic Univ, Italy
  • China: Prof. Xiao Luo, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • Japan: Assoc. Prof. Yiping Le, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  • S. Korea: Dr. Kyungtaek Kim, Korea Transport Institute, Seoul, Korea & Mr. Woojin Kim, Korea Transport Institute, Seoul, Korea
  • India:  Prof. Gopal Patil, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Mumbai, India    
  • USA: Prof. Giovanni Circella, University of California-Davis and Gent Univ, Italy
  • Canada (and TF Secretariat): Clark Lim, Adjunct Professor, UBC Civil Engineering
• Excellence Award Presentations:     
  • Europe - Madrid, the most efficient subway in Europe; presented by Prof. Ennio Casetta, Naples University, Italy    
  • China – Shenzhen, the most efficient subway in China; presented by Prof. Meng Li, Tsinghua University, China           
  • Japan – Kobe, the most efficient subway in Japan; presented by Prof. Hironori Kato, Tokyo University, Japan      
  • S. Korea – Gwangju, the most efficient subway in Korea; presented by Prof. Kari Watkins, UC-Davis, USA    
  • India – Hyderabad, the most efficient subway in India; presented by Prof. Dan Sperling, UC-Davis, USA
  • US/Canada – New York & Toronto, the most efficient subway systems in North America, Prof. Tae Oum, University of British Columbia, Canada
•  Most Improved Productivity Award Presentations:     
  • Europe - Lisbon, the most improved subway system in Europe; presented by Prof. Pierluigi Coppola, Milan Polytechnic Univ, Italy    
  • China – Changsha, the most improved subway system in China; presented by Prof. Xiao Luo, Tongji University, China           
  • Japan – Osaka, the most improved subway system in Japan; presented by Assoc. Prof. Yiping Le, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan      
  • S. Korea – Daejeon, the most improved subway system in Korea; presented by Dr. Kyungtaek Kim, Korea Transport Institute, Seoul, Korea    
  • US/Canada – Miami-Dade, the most improved subway system in North America, Prof. Giovanni Circella, University of California-Davis and Gent Univ, Italy
• Panel Discussion - Participants – moderated by Tae Oum           
  • All award winning city/metro representatives just received the excellence award listed above           
  • TF Advisory Committee members: Professors Dan Sperling, Ennio Casetta, Hirono Kato, Meng Li, Kari Watkins

The point of view is taken of the enhancement of the vertical integration along the supply chains and of the horizontal integration among the port stakeholders. Key is the role of emerging ICT inside the Port Community Systems (PCS) for the solution of shared decisions among the port stakeholders. The levels of machine digitalisation and the evolution process from Product Manufacturer to System Integrator are important. The elements of virtual integration of the “vertical” chains for real-time visibility-tracking antd the possibility to relate with “horizontal” chains will be essential. The necessity should be stressed to put at the center of analysis the human behaviour and the importance of having standards, in order to consider the technology as an instrument and not an end.

• Introduction (Thierry Vanelslander)
• Smart Logistics solutions for increasing network resilience: the value of acceptance (Alessio Tei)
• Synchromodality as a Prospective Digitalization Scheme for Freight Logistics (Satya Sahoo,Gang Chen, Dong-Wook Song)
• Digital decision-making support for optimal railway node capacity: The case study of the Port of Trieste (Caterina Caramuta)
• When Smart Becomes Green: The Strategic Role of Digitalisation in Accelerating the Energy Transition in Maritime Transport (Michele Acciaro)
• Technological innovation and ports: opportunities and limitations from AI based services (Alessio Tei, Marta Santagata and Claudio Ferrari)
• Panel discussion on digitalisation, involving government and sector representatives and academics, moderated by Francesco Russo.

A4-S1-Special Session (July 19 (Wed) 10:50-12:30) will be held at Hotel Monville at Room Monville 1-2 on Floor 20", which is located within 4 mins walk from the Palais.

The proposed session covers policy experiences and lessons from implementing High Speed Rail worldwide. The first part will be case study presentations on Network Extension and Urban Development & their Integrated Impacts of HSR. The second part will be a high-level panel discussion on the policy and development experiences.

• Opening Remarks Masafumi Shukuri, Chairman, JTTRI
• Effects and critical issues of KTX Jaehek Oh (President of KOTI: Korean Transport Institute)
• Policies and Capacity Development Programs for constructing and operating HSR in India Rajendra Prasad, NHSRCL (TBC)
• Chuo Shinkansen Project - Japan's 500km/h Superconducting Maglev Line - Its technology, construction and socioeconomic effects Tomoaki Seki (General Manager, Linear Shinkansen Project, Japan Rail Central)
• A new method to evaluate HSR by individual's QOL and economic growth of industry and their mutual enhancement Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Ex-President of WCTRS, Distinguished Prof., Chubu University)
• Panel Discussion and Q&A Tae Hoon Oum (President of WCTRS, Prof., University of British Columbia) Francesca Pagliara (Prof., University of Naples) Haixiao PAN (Prof., Tongji University) Krishna Rao (Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
• Closing remarks KE Seetharam, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo

Findings will deepen the understanding and utilization of the complexity and emergence of travel behaviors in urban agglomerations, enrich and improve the theories and methodologies of travel behavior analysis and demand integration management of urban agglomerations, which have significant scientific value and broad application space in the realization of accurate prediction and smart management of urban agglomeration travel demand.

• Modeling the effects of a new airport on a multi-airport system with air and high-speed rail integration service. Wenjing Liu, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
• Optimal Charging Scheduling of an Electric Bus Fleet. Chi Xie, Professor, Tongji University, China.
• Effects of high-speed rail on intercity travels, utility and social welfare in urban agglomerations: A game-theoretic perspective. Han Wang, Professor, Beihang University, China. (VIDEO AVAILABLE IN ROOM 516, poster session P_AB).
• Travel demand integration management: A case study of Jing-jin-ji urban agglomeration. Meng Xu, Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China.
• Improving disruption management with passengers' air-HSR decision-making in urban agglomeration: A case study of Beijing. Yuankai Zhang, Professor, Beihang University, China.

Our intention is to build on the successful online WCTRS event held in July 2022 with a focus on further developing the urban freight transport research field. Urban freight transport research has grown dramatically in recent years (from a small base). There are many more conferences and journal papers and more researchers are now involved in this field. The session will identify the actions needed to support this growth and to extend it further. Actions could include both scaling up the research activities and identifying ways to involve researchers from countries and regions not currently widely represented in urban freight research. In addition, the transfer of research findings into practice will be explored.

Panellists (currently confirmed – two more panellists or discussants may be added):

• Prof. Laetitia Dablanc (University Gustave Eiffel, leader of the World Conference on Transport Research Society Young Researchers’ Initiative WCTRS-Y)
• Dr. Per-Olof Arnäs (Director, Logistics Strategy Einride - formerly at Chalmers)
• Prof. Alison Conway (The City College of New York - CUNY) Prof. Gopal Patil (IIT Bombay)
• Prof. Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg)

Various Micro-E-Mobilities systems have been developed, such as electric kickboards and ultra-compact mobility systems for sitting and riding. They are expected to become popular as next-generation mobility systems to realize a safe and comfortable transportation society. However, there are many issues and challenges to be considered, such as the acceptability of new mobility, safety issues on sidewalks and roadways that may arise due to coexistence with other existing travel modes, legal arrangements, and traffic space.In this special session, we would like to report about above-mentioned topics from the aspect of user psychology, behavior and policy in some countries and discuss about challenges and future expectations for Micro-E-Mobilities.This special session is jointly organized between IATSS, SIG G2, and SIG C4. This special session is built upon a previous workshop that was organized at TU Wien, Austria.

• Introduction of IATSS research project: Micro-E-mobilities in Japan and East Asia by Dr. Koji SUZUKI (Nagoya Institute of Technology, JPN)
• Perspectives on the role of Micro-E-Mobility in Europe by Prof. Guenter Emberger (TU Wien.,AUT)
• Perspectives on the role of Micro-E-Mobility in North America by (to be defined) 
• Panel Discussion: Dr. Koji SUZUKI (Nagoya Institute of Technology, JPN), Dr. Miho IRYO-ASANO (Nagoya University, JPN), Dr. Takeru SHIBAYAMA (TU Wien, AUT), Dr. Tatsuto SUZUKI  (University College London - PEARL, UK), Prof. Guenter

Many of the fast growing Developing Economies, like BRICS countries continue to experience exponential growth in car ownership, which continues to raise demands from aspiring society for more road infrastructure capacity to accommodate these ever increasing number of cars. However, it is creating un-sustainable urban transportation system in these countries. This panel discussion will focus on what the aspiring economies need to do differently also leaning from the experiences and mistakes of rich economies.

• Panelist. Prof. Louise Reardon, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. Meng Li, Tsinghua University, China Prof. Ali Huzayyin, Cairo University, Egypt Prof. Samer Madanat, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Dr. Binyam Reja, World Bank, USA (TBC) 

• TransitData Research into Practice: Challenges and Perspectives, Brendon Hemily (University of Toronto)
• Machine Learning techniques for more reliable bus schedules, Timothy Spurr (GIRO)
• The Impact of On-demand Transit on Ridership and Growth Rate, Yili Tang (McGill University)
• Abrupt Changes and Intraurban Human Mobiltiy: COVID-19’s Impacts on Metro Riders in Hong Kong, Jiangping Zhou (University of Hong Kong)
• Deployment of Work Trains for Overnight Maintenance Activities, John Moody (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Many careers in transportation research are motivated by a desire to improve the safety, sustainability, and wellbeing of travelers and societies. Many of our journals require authors to detail policy implications so our work remains relevant and influential among practitioners. But to what extent does research contribute to change in policy, politics, and culture? We invite transportation researchers at WCTR to join us in reflecting on how our work impacts the world, and to share strategies and lessons learned on how to make meaningful change through our research and knowledge mobilization practices. This special session will include a panel, followed by open discussion and a reflective activity. Attendees will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of theories of change, along with links to resources on developing a theory for change for a research project.

• Introduction Mobilizing Justice, Making Change Through Partnered Research, Steven Farber, University of Toronto Scarborough
• Panel Facilitated by: Steven Farber, University of Toronto Scarborough
  • Ahmed El-Geneidy, McGill University
  • Meghan Winters, Simon Fraser University
  • Helena Titheridge, University College London
  • Maria Attard, University of Malta
  • Catherine Morency, Polytechnique Montréal

Please find here the programme of the General Assembly.  You are all invited to attend!

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been widely considered an important instrument for financing transport infrastructures. Financing transport infrastructures can be effectively provided through PPP in developed and developing countries. However, PPPs face macroeconomic uncertainties resulting from low growth, high-interest rates, and high inflation. PPPs require risk management to control the uncertainties and to address the likely negative effects of PPP projects, to provide sustainable public transportation services for the people.This special session is motivated to share practical lessons and experiences of PPP in various countries, for risk management resulting from the economic uncertainties. Through presentations and discussion, innovative policies and practical lessons are to be drawn. Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), the national transportation research think tank, has been operating the Center for Private Highway Studies (CEPHiS), which tries to support the management of PPP project evaluations, concessions, and performance monitoring. Korea’s achievements and experiences of PPP projects in the last two decades will be shared in the session.

• Opening Remark: Jaehak Oh (President, KOTI / President, EASTS)
• Welcome Remark: Tae Hoon Oum (President, WCTRS)
• Presentations:
  • Kyungtaek Kim (Associate Research Fellow, KOTI): Build-Transfer Operate with risk-sharing approaches for railway project in Korea
  • Hyejin Lee (Associate Research Fellow, KOTI): Travel demand forecasting risk management method in toll reduction of private highways in Korea
  • Shinya Hanaoka (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology): Risk identification of PPP railway projects in Asia
• Panel Discussion:
  • (Chair) Akimasa Fujiwara (Professor, Hiroshima University)
  • Vincent Robitaille (Assistant Deputy Minister, Transport Canada)
  • Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Professor, Chubu University)
  • Binyam Reja (Global Practice Manager, World Bank)
  • Hanbyul Jang (Chief Director, Korea Transport Institute)

This session will celebrate over 40 years of this work on the conflict, power, and promise of our streets. Streets constitute the majority of our urban public spaces, yet we struggle everyday with how they should be designed and operated for travel, safety, and livability.This panel discussion will revolve around the importance of streets and streetspace, especially in the shadows of our experiences with COVID-19 which, in some instances, has forever changed our relationship with streets. Participants are invited to explore and share key findings from their own work on streets and reflect on the topics of street livability, complete streets and Vision Zero. To help generate group discussion, key findings from the body of research building on the book Livable Streets 2.0 -- the seminal research leading to the general theory that streets are for people, not merely conduits for cars – will be presented.

• The Conflict, Power, and Promise of our Streets (Dr. Bruce -Appleyard, San Diego State University)
• Traffic Calming Safety State of Practice (Dr. Reid Ewing)
• Greenways, Complete Streets, Livability, and Health (Dr. Lawrence Frank)
• A Tribute to Donald Appleyard (Dr. Eduardo Vasconcellos)
• Streets, Safety, and the Shaping of our Towns and Suburbs (Dr. Eran Ben-Joseph)
• Panel Discussion: Bruce Appleyard Moderator w/o Q&A