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CALL FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS AND WORKSHOP IDEAS

Deadline:  November 18, 2022

The TRB Innovations in Travel Analysis and Planning Conference will holistically address travel modeling, forecasting, and analysis in the transportation community. Through interactive workshops, sessions, and networking opportunities, the conference will place an emphasis on connecting researchers with practitioners, and on the application of innovative analysis techniques.  The conference will be held on June 4-6, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  All practitioners, researchers, academics, students, and others involved in transportation planning and travel modeling are encouraged to attend this intellectually vibrant event.

Conference Focus Areas

The conference will include tracks in four focus areas: 

  • Equity and accessibility, in particular reconnecting underserved communities
  • Planning/forecasting in an era of rapid change and uncertainty
  • Innovative travel data collection and analysis methods
  • Sustainable, resilient, and integrated multi-modal transportation

Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

  • Demonstration and deployment of sustainable and equitable transportation: lessons learned from real-world applications
  • Mobility solutions for underserved communities
  • More equitable adoption of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs): barriers and incentives
  • Modeling connected and autonomous vehicles, shared mobility services, transportation network companies (TNCs), internet-of-things (IoT), and mobility-on-demand technologies
  • Automated vehicles and urban air travel
  • Infrastructure planning and investment for future transportation (electrification, automation and beyond)
  • Public transportation post pandemic
  • Advances in modeling freight flows and movement of goods and services
  • New approaches in travel demand modeling
  • Integrated models connecting land use, activity-travel demand, network dynamics, energy and environment, and/or health outcomes
  • Using new big/small data streams, such as real-time crowdsourced and social media data, to inform and develop travel models, including applications of machine/deep learning techniques
  • Innovations in data collection, analytics, synthesis, and visualization, especially post-pandemic demand data collection
  • Advanced econometric and statistical methods for representing complex behaviors
  • Assessing model forecast accuracy and accounting for risk and uncertainty in travel models
  • Location/destination choice modeling and sense of place
  • Innovative applications to address policy questions--autonomous vehicle/technology adoption, response to pricing, and equity and social exclusion
  • Reflecting behavioral processes and lifestyle motivations in travel models
  • Changes in attitudes and behaviors
  • Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics applications to travel modeling
  • High performance computing, cloud-based, and agile software platforms for transport modeling
  • Innovations in large-scale applications of advanced traffic assignment methods
  • Advances in capacity-constrained schedule-based transit trip assignment

Abstract Submission 

The length of abstracts should be no longer than 500 words. Submitters will also be asked to indicate their preferred delivery format; final designation of the format will be at the discretion of the conference planning committee. The planning committee welcomes the following formats of contributions:

  • Podium session
  • Posters
  • Lightning Talks
  • Workshop

Workshop Proposal

For workshop proposals, the conference planning committee encourages interactive sessions which respond to the four focus areas. Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Lecture on a well-established, fundamental topic which the industry should be better versed in.
  • Tutorial of an important analysis technique which can take place in real-time with cross-platform, open-source tools.
  • Analysis competition which can be completed with available and open data.
  • Discussion of a specific innovation or case study which you would like to put forward for review.
  • Discussion on a specific point of disagreement which is either beneficial to debate or critical to resolve.
  • Discussion on emerging issues that should drive future research and practice.

All submissions should be submitted by November 18, 2022 and should be no longer than 500 words.  

Questions regarding the call?
Ms. Anusha Jayasinghe