Transport Research Days 2019

2019 edition of the biannual conference organized on behalf of BIVEC-GIBET

May 23-24, 2019, Ghent, Belgium

Call for Abstracts

The 7th BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days will take place on Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24 2019 in Ghent, Belgium, organized by the Social and Economic Geography (SEG) Research Group of the Geography Department of Ghent University. The Transport Research Days offers young and established scholars from the three Benelux Countries an opportunity to present their research findings to an informed audience of transport researchers. The conference will take place at Campus De Sterre.

On this occasion, dr. Jos Delbeke, currently holder of the BIVEC Transport Chair, will give a public lecture on "Climate change in respect to transport issues" (TBC). 

Colleagues from the Benelux-universities and research institutions, who are doing research on any topic related to transport, mobility and logistics, are invited to submit «extended abstracts» for selection as conference contributions.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed by a scientific committee. Your abstract must not exceed 1,500 words (spaces included). It must be typed in Times New Roman size 12 single-spaced. Abstracts must be submitted to frank.witlox@ugent.be by January 31, 2019 at the latest.

Timeline

February 23, 2019 - Extended abstracts due

February 15, 2019 - Author notification

April 30, 2019 - Full paper due

May 23-24, 2019 - Conference dates

Awards

To stimulate academic research in transport and logistics, BIVEC-GIBET is offering two awards to the best papers presented at the conference.

Papers submitted by authors younger than 30 will be considered for the Best Junior Paper Award consisting of a one-year free membership of BIVEC-GIBET and 500 EUR.

All papers submitted to the conference are able to enter the overall Best Paper Award competition offering a two-year free membership of BIVEC-GIBET and 750 EUR.

Papers presented at the TRD's are published in proceedings. More information can be found here.

Local Organisers

Prof. Frank Witlox
Prof. Ben Derudder
Prof. Veronique Van Acker
Dr. Long Cheng
Dr. Jonas De Vos
Dr. Tom Storme
Freke Caset, MSc
Leen De Paepe, MSc
Sofie De Winter
Helga Vermeulen

Scientific Committee

Prof. Jos Arts - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Prof. Luca Bertolini - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Prof. An Caris - Universiteit Hasselt
Prof. Mario Cools - Université de Liège
Prof. Eric Cornelis - Université de Namur
Prof. Griet De Ceuster - Transport Mobility Leuven
Prof. Martin Dijst - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
Prof. Wout Dullaert - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. Karst Geurs - Universiteit Twente
Prof. Bart Jourquin - UC Louvain
Dr. Steven Lannoo - Institute for Coach and Bus
Prof. Sabine Limbourg - Université de Liège
Prof. Cathy Macharis - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prof. Markus Hesse - Université de Luxembourg
Prof. Soora Rasouli - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Prof. Chris Tampère - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof. Harry Timmmermans - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Ir. Ton van den Hanenberg - Hogeschool Rotterdam
Prof. Rob van der Heijden - Radboud Universiteit
Prof. Thomas Vanoutrive - Universiteit Antwerpen
Prof. Bert van Wee - Technische Universiteit Delft
Prof. Tom Van Woensel Technische - Universiteit Eindhoven
Prof. Erik Verhoef - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam