The NECTAR Cluster 7 (Transport and security) and the WCTR interest group G5 organize jointly a special session at the 14th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR). The conference will take place in Shanghai (China) 10-16 July 2016. Abstracts for the special session can be submitted until 15 March 2015. More information can be found here: CFP – SIGG5
Special Session at ERSA 2015: Call for abstracts
NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) will organize a special session at ERSA 2015 (Lisbon, 25-28 August) on New Data and Methods In Accessibility Analysis. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 2 March. More information can be found here: ERSA-NECTAR Cluster 6
Call for papers for the 2015 IGU Moscow Conference
The IGU Transport and Geography Commission are organising three thematic sessions of research papers for the 2015 IGU Moscow Conference
- Andrew Goetz (University of Denver, USA) and Becky Loo (University of Hong Kong) are co-convening a session on the theme of Geographical Impacts of Transport and Regional Development, including the study of economic, social, and environmental effects of transport infrastructure investment.
- Yves Boquet (University of Bourgogne, France), Anastasia Lomakina (Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), and Vladimir Shuvalov are co-convening a session on the theme of Transport Development in Regions of High Latitudes or High Altitude.
- Yves Boquet (University of Bourgogne, France), Anastasia Lomakina (Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), and Vladimir Shuvalov are co-convening a session on the theme of Russian Transport Issues: Cities, Regions and Neighboring Countries.
For more information please see here.
Call for sessions and papers for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
The call for sessions and papers for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference is now open and we would like to invite suggestions for sessions sponsored by the Transport Geography Research Group. The conference will take place at the University of Exeter from the 2nd-4th September and will be chaired by Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford). The conference theme is Geographies of the Anthropocene
If you would like to have your session sponsored by TGRG, please submit your session proposal to angela.curl@glasgow.ac.uk by Monday 5th January. We will confirm sponsorship the same week and you will then have until Friday 20th February to send out your Call for Papers, choose your presenters and submit your full session proposal to RGS. Continue reading “Call for sessions and papers for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference”