THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR TRANSPORTATION STUDIES (HKSTS 2015)
URBAN TRANSPORT ANALYTICS
Hong Kong
12-14 December, 2015
< www.hksts.org/conf.htm>
Dear colleagues and friends,
The conference organizing committee has the great pleasure of inviting you to attend the 20th international conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) in Hong Kong, 12-14 December, 2015. Established in February 1996, HKSTS < http://www.hksts.org> aims to foster excellence in transportation research and practice, stimulate professional interchange in transportation, and provide a forum for exchanging ideas on transportation developments. The objective of the HKSTS conference is to gather international and local professionals in the area of transportation to present their work and contributions, disseminate research results, and discuss future developments. Practitioners and academics are cordially invited to share their knowledge, experience and insights on the design, analytics, investigations, analysis, planning, operation, engineering, co-ordination and management of transport systems and their impacts. The technical program may include plenary sessions, paper presentations and interactive sessions.
For details, please visit the conference website at: www.hksts.org/conf.htm
Call for papers and presentations
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 300 to 500 words to the EasyChair paper management system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hksts2015> by the deadline of April 15, 2015. Abstract submission instructions are available at http://www.hksts.org/conf15b.pdf. Authors will be notified of acceptance of abstracts and full papers will be invited by May 31, 2015.
The topics of the conference includes, but not limited to:
1. Transportation Infrastructure and Built Environment
· Transportation infrastructure
· Integrated land use and development
· Infrastructure design, evaluation and management
· Highway engineering
2. Sustainability Issues in Transportation
· Energy and carbon emissions
· Climate change and adaptation strategies
· Equity and sustainability issues in transportation
· Transportation safety and Health
3. Travel Behavior Modeling
· Observational and attitudinal surveys
· Spatiotemporal analysis
· Activity-based modeling
· Applications
4. Technology and Information
· Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
· Data integration and interoperability issues
· GPS, telecommunications and transport
· Transport and Big Data
5. Transport Geography
· Transportation geographic information systems (TGIS)
· Travel and mobility
· Urban transport systems and road safety
· Transport policy
6. Transport Dynamics
· Dynamic traffic assignment
· Traffic flow theories
· Day-to-day dynamics
· Applications of dynamic models
7. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
· Supply chain management
· Logistics and operations management
· Humanitarian logistics
· Decision analytics
8. Transport Networks
· Facility location and network design
· Freight transportation
· Public transit
· Network reliability and vulnerability
Accepted full papers presented at the Conference will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which will be made available to registered participants. Selected papers may also be published in special issues in international journals.
Important Dates
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| 15 April, 2015 | | : Deadline for submission of abstracts | |
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| 31 May, 2015 | | : Notification of acceptance of abstracts | |
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| 15 August, 2015 | | : Deadline for submission of full papers | |
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| 16 September, 2015 | | : Notification of acceptance of full papers | |
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| 15 October, 2015 | | : Deadline for submission of final papers | |
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| 12-14 December, 2015 | | : The 20th HKSTS International Conference | |
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We are looking forward to welcoming you this December in Hong Kong.
Sincerely,
Conference Organizing Committee
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Yong-Hong Kuo
Research Assistant Professor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
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