35th International Geographical Congress (Dublin, 24-30 August)

The deadline (12 January 2024) for submitting abstracts and travel grant applications to the IGU Transport & Geography Commission (C.41) is approaching.

A wide range of topics and 16 sessions can be consulted here:  https://igc2024dublin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Session-booklet-05.10.23.pdf (page 217-290). 

For the Call for Paper website and instruction Click here to access:  https://igc2024dublin.org/call-for-abstracts/#top

Call for Travel Grant applications:  The T&G commission provides travel grant awards to our members to apply for. Please find the detail via this link to our website:  https://igu-transport.org/events-2/ where the application form is included. To join as a member of T&G Commission, click here:  https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/3902/sites/50752717438583956/HHwn8p

IGU2022 Paris – Call for Abstracts:  “Legacy and impact of municipality investments and policies during COVID-19 in transport and their role in the recovery”

As the world returns to “the new normal,” following the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of municipalities made decisions in terms of prioritizing funding when tax revenues were reduced. Some municipalities favoured transit, cycling or walkable development. Others developed better parking strategies. Still others utilized a mix of transit and dense, brownfield or smart infill development to drive growth in intensive street use, even as extensive street use declined due to stay-at-home orders or similar restrictions. Localities are now considering whether to extend “temporary” measures such as limiting motor vehicle access on streets in favour of more pedestrian and cycling use or revert back to pre-COVID use patterns.
The session, which is part of the International Geographical Union, Paris, 18-22 July 2022, seeks locally-derived and led solutions or policies that impact a municipal area, including, but not limited to: changes in modal choices supported by policy or budget, COVID-19 mitigation strategies as reflected in transportation geography, the mitigation of impacts of lessened ridership or declining funds to transit, or changes in investment strategies for transportation and their geographic impacts.

Sponsored by the IGU Transport and Geography Commission.
Session Organisers: Richard D. Quodomine, City of Philadelphia, Maria Attard, University of Malta, Andy Goetz, University of Denver

Send a 200 word abstract and up to 5 keywords a to the session organizers by 9 July 2021.

Further information: If you have any questions or wish to see the full Call for Paper topics, please contact Richard.Quodomine@phila.gov; maria.attard@um.edu.mt or agoetz@du.edu

Cluster 5 & 6 Special Session: “Regional Science and Tourism”

As part of the 26th Pacific Conference of the RSAI (PRSCO), to be held jointly with the 59th Annual Meeting of the WRSA in Waikiki, Hawaii from March 18 to 21, 2020, Nectar clusters 5 and 6 are organizing a Special Session on “Regional Science and Tourism”. The website for submission is now open (www.wrsaonline.org). Short abstracts, as well as full papers (also in draft format), will be accepted for the Special Session. Full papers benefit from the traditional WRSA 45-minute per paper time slot. The submission deadline is November 15, 2019, for full-length original papers (not previously published). The call can be found here.