Rome, Italy, 22-23 October 2010

Transportation is both fundamental for a growing economy as well as capable of generating unwanted negative by-effects. Public transportation is a key instrument to reduce the undesirable external negative effects of private transportation especially in cities where the great majority of agents is now concentrated. Transportation demand can no longer be simply satisfied by increasing infrastructure and, consequently, congestion is rising in both developed and developing world cities, producing substantial negative impacts on the environment and on the quality of life. Read More...

Mons, Belgium, 10-11 December 2010

Much of transport economic analysis is developed within a static framework. For instance, in evaluation of an infrastructure investment, once an overall time scenario of economic evolution is set up, the analysis often proceeds on the basis of a calibrated static model on how travellers or shippers choose a transport solution (mode, means, route) at a set of successive points of time given the decision parameters (price, income, congestion, etc.) and matrixes of origin and destination as forecast within the time scenario (business as usual, high or low growth, etc.). Read More...

I would like to inform you about a NECTAR Session on Accessibility which we are organizing in the framework of the coming NARSC Conference (Denver, USA, 10-13 November 2010). See the attached Call for Paper.

If any NECTAR Member wishes to organize further Special NECTAR Sessions at NARSC-Denver or at any other interesting Conference, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With my best wishes,
Aura Reggiani

We are pleased to invite you to contribute papers for a Special ERSA-NECTAR session, which we will organize at the 50th ERSA Congress in August (19-23). The ERSA Conference will take place in Jonkoping (Sweden) and will be a major international event. For more information please click here.

The inauguration of High-Speed Rail (HSR) in Japan, over 40 years ago, created a new transport network, which since became the main mode of transport for most long-distance journeys in that country. In Europe, the HSR services which were launched about 20 years later were capable of running also on the conventional rail network, but nevertheless also created a new transport network. The new transport network is unique in many respects and has important and specific spatial effects, on the territories where it traverses, as well as those it bypass or haven't yet reached. For more information please click here.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute with papers on a Special ERSA-NECTAR session which is to be arranged on the 50th ERSA Congress in August (19-23). The ERSA Conference takes place in Jonkoping (Sweden) and will be a major international event. This special session will have an interdisciplinary character and provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss their ongoing research evolving around commuting, migration, housing and labour markets. Download the complete call for papers here.