Dear NECTAR Members and Colleagues,

A new and exciting year is starting, which will feature the biannual (and first Transatlantic) Euro-NECTAR Conference, to be held on 18–20 June 2009 in Arlington, VA (USA). The conference will be hosted by the School of Public Policy, at George Mason University (abstract deadline: 15 March 2009). Please find on the NECTAR website the conditions for paying no conference fee and receiving free accommodation. Read More...

Dear NECTAR colleagues:

First, my best wishes for a Happy New Year 2009 to all of you!

Before telling you about the innovations in the coming year, I would like to reflect on the past NECTAR year.

2008 was a rich year for NECTAR activities. All cluster coordinators organized their cluster meeting very efficiently: Dave Banister and Moshe Givoni (Cluster 1) in Oxford (September 2008); Harry Garlings, Yoram Shiftan, Diminique Stead and Erik Verhoef (Cluster 2) in Rotterdam (May 2008); Rob Konings, Eveline Vogels and Bart Wiegmans (Cluster 3) in Delft (March 2008). I would then like to thank all these NECTAR cluster coordinators and members for their admirable work. Read More...

A call for papers has been launched on the following theme :Building Bridges: Accessibility Research in Europe and North America, The North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, to be held in Brooklyn, New York (November 19-22, 2008), were recently announced. It is our pleasure to submit this call for papers to your consideration.

This year, with the proposal to establish a new NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transportation Research) cluster on the theme of accessibility, we are planning a session or set of sessions to showcase accessibility research in Europe and North America. The objective of the session(s) is to present leading edge research on the topic and to encourage the exchange of ideas between researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. Read More...