Welcome to the section of IHT's website that notifies members of future conferences where the organisers are calling for the submission of technical papers to be considered for review and presentation.  Listed below are those conferences that have either been identified by IHT as of interest to transportation professionals, or the organisers have contacted IHT directly. If you are aware of  calls for conference papers that are not listed here, but you feel that IHT members or transport practitioners would be interested in responding to them, please contact:

e: technical@iht.org

1st Call for Papers

10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation – AATT 2008.

Athens, Greece

May 27th-31st, 2008

WWW: http://www.civil.ntua.gr/aatt

E-mail: aatt2008@transport.ntua.gr

Hellenic Ministry of Transport and Communications

The National Technical University of Athens, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Transportation Research Board would like to invite you to the 10th Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation, which will take place in Athens, Greece , in May, 27th-31st, 2008.

The main objectives of the 10th AATT are to discuss and showcase advanced technologies, innovative equipment, expert skills and new materials applied to transportation modes and systems. Academics, researchers and professionals interested in the field of transportation are invited to attend the conference to learn about innovative solutions and the application of new methods, theories and technologies in the areas of transportation infrastructure, planning and operations.

We look forward to seeing you in Athens , in 2008.

Matthew Karlaftis, Ph.D.

Program Chair

School of Civil Engineering,

National Technical University of Athens , Greece

Samer Madanat, Ph.D.

Conference Co-Chair

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Antony Stathopoulos, Ph.D.

Conference Co-Chair

School of Civil Engineering,

National Technical University of Athens , Greece

Road Safety Audit 2008

United Progress Towards a Common Target

Draft Programme & Call for Papers – 29th April 2008

Aston University’s 2008 Annual Road Safety Audit conference will be an international event, with the theme of uniting
practitioners from all over the world, to share information on this high profile and effective casualty prevention
discipline. By sharing knowledge about safer roads design and about the ways in which we are evolving the Road
Safety Audit process worldwide, we shall be able to strengthen and enhance the benefits to be gained from Road
Safety Audit. This event will be of particular benefit to those developing Road Safety Audit policy as well as
practitioners. Issues covered will include new standards, auditor qualifications, registration systems and liabilities.

Morning

Chairman – Martin Heath - Visiting Lecturer, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University

Keynote Address by Antonio Avenoso – Deputy Director & Head of Research, European Transport Safety Council

Speaker – Robert Morgan, Road Safety Consultant, Victoria, New South Wales
>> ‘The NEW Australian RSA Guidelines & Review of the Auditor Registration System’

Speaker – Barbara Bezera, Professor in Traffic Engineer, University of Sao Paulo
>> ‘Establishing RSA in Brazil’

Afternoon

The afternoon session is open to speakers from the UK and overseas to present for a maximum of 20 minutes on any
topic of relevance. Papers already received include topics such as new roundabout design standards, passive roadside
safety systems and speed management.

To propose your paper please submit an abstract to :

Dr M Sadegzadeh
Room MB166
Aston University
Birmingham
B4 7ET
Email : m.sadegzadeh@aston.ac.uk

TRB Conference

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2008 ROUNDABOUT CONFERENCE, May 18 - 21, 2008 in Kansas City

The Call for Abstracts and other logistics information for the

ROUNDABOUTS 2008 CONFERENCE, May 18-21, 2008 in Kansas City , is now

available at the below address.

http://trb.org/conferences/2008/Roundabout/Call.pdf

The 2005 Roundabouts Conference produced highly useful design,

construction, operations and safety information (including ADA ) and best

practices, as well as the latest research and discussion of issues. The

2008 conference will build on that base with the additional experience

of many more agencies using roundabouts, more years of experience with

roundabouts, and recently completed research.

For questions contact:

Richard Pain OR Dr. Eugene Russell

TRB staff Chair, Conference Planning Committee

and the TRB Roundabouts Task Force

rpain@nas.edu geno@ksu.edu

There is a call for abstracts for the following conference to be held in 2007.

Transportation Research Board: 3rd Urban Street Symposium
Uptown, Downtown, or Small Town: Designing Urban Streets That Work
Summer 2007 Seattle, Washington
ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The purpose of the Urban Street Symposium is to stimulate improvements in suburban/urban street design practices. It will provide a forum to:

It will focus on the latest research, policies, and practices for street geometric design, including safety and operational effects. The previous Symposia proved that practitioners, policy makers, and researchers face similar issues and learn much by sharing their challenges and successes with concerned colleagues.

A full list of the symposium topics, details of the required information to be included in abstracts and where to send the abstract can be found from the PDF below.

Please click here to download further info, pdf 119kb >>

Call for Papers – 29th October 2008
The Future of Transportation in Ireland

The Institution of Highways & Transportation is pleased to announce the 2008 conference of the Republic of Ireland Branch, to be held in Cork with a target of the 29th October. The topic of this year’s conference will be "The Future of Transportation in Ireland" .

The Conference is a one-day event for all practitioners involved in planning, design, procurement and construction of transport infrastructure. It will examine the latest developments in technologies, design techniques, innovative equipment, expert skills, new materials analysis, and present a number of papers on the future direction of transportation infrastructure and policy.

The event is aimed at providing a forum for dissemination of technical advances as well as exchanges of experiences and ideas among engineers, planners, academics, researchers, developers, regulatory agents and project managers.

As with any such event, support from our members is crucial. If you have a paper that you would like to present of any issue you feel would enhance this event, we would be delighted to hear from you. All topics would be allocated 30 minutes, and should follow the basic theme of the event.

If you feel you can add to this event, please contact Alex Robertson with an outline of the topic that you propose to cover. All such submissions should be received prior to 31st August 2008. Please note that full presentations will not be required until 30th September 2006.

Alex Robertson, Jacobs, Merrion House, Merrion Road, Dublin 4.
Phone: 00353 1 269 5666, E-mail: alex.robertson@jacobs.com