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NECTAR Joint Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 International Workshop
It is our pleasure to announce the NECTAR Joint Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 International Workshop on “The role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility”, to be held at the Transport Research Centre, Brno, the Czech Republic, from 17 to 18 May 2016. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the network of cities CIVINET Czech and Slovak Republics. Find more info here.
Call for abstracts: Cluster 4 Meeting
We are pleased to announce the 2016 NECTAR Cluster 4 meeting on “Travel, migration, housing and labour market in a context of crisis. Lessons for the future”, to be held in Toledo (Spain) 6-7 October, 2016. Abstracts can be submitted until 15 February, 2016. More detailed information can be found here.
Cluster 3 Workshop
We are pleased to invite you to a NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Cluster 3 workshop. The meeting will take place in Algarve, Portugal (16 – 17 April 2015 ) and will be dealing with the topic of “Sustainable freight transport – are cities willing and ready for the recent advances in transport technologies?” This meeting will bring together leading researchers from a number of disciplines and countries in a friendly environment to debate the recent developments on the study of logistics and freight transport. Find the call here.
Enhancing the network efficiency: air transport and sustainability
NECTAR Cluster 1 workshop 7-8 May 2015, Cranfield, United Kingdom
There are many reasons to strive to improve the efficiency of transport networks. While economic reasons used to dominate the debate, environmental reasons are gaining importance but not, for now, social reasons although increasingly equity is seen as another dimension of efficiency. Air transport networks are a special and important case to examine network efficiency. Demand for air transport is steadily growing over time, on average over 4-5% per annum and this has been taking place for several decades and is predicted to continue in the near future. Continue reading “Enhancing the network efficiency: air transport and sustainability”