Call for papers Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics 2011

We are pleased to announce that the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics: Annual conference of the ITEA will be held in Stockholm Sweden June 27- July 1, 2011.

The three-day Summer School is held on June 27-29, just before the Conference. It provides a condensed programme giving an introduction to academic research in transport economics including recent advances. The Summer School program consists of 10 lectures delivered by a faculty comprising a range of the most prominent researchers in transport economics.

The aim of the Conference, June 30 – July 1, is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific exchange. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport investment and funding, congestion pricing, time and risk, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, aviation, competition, privatization etc. Selected papers will be encouraged for consideration as part of a special issue of one or more transportation economics journals to be announced. In addition, there will be two awards at the conference: one for the best paper by a senior researcher and another one for the best paper by a junior researcher.

The Conference and the Summer School are hosted by the Centre for Transport Studies (CTS), The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Call for papers coming out soon, please watch your mailboxes! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: kuhmonectar2011@vti.se

More details are uploaded on the conference website: http://www.kth.se/abe/centra/cts/kn2011?l=en_UK

With kind regards, the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics:

Maria Börjesson, chair of the Local Organizing
Committee Erik Verhoef, chair of the Summer School Steering Committee
Kenneth Small, President of International Transportation Economics Association