Future Conferences
Emergency Medical Services Systems, Safety Strategies and Solutions Summit
Date:
2012-Feb-29
Location:
Washington, DC
Contact:
Rick Pain
RPain@nas.edu
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is sponsoring the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems, Safety Strategies, and Solutions Summit February 29, 2012, in Washington, D.C. This will be a one-day workshop reviewing the state of the art in transportation safety in EMS operations. Ongoing research and research needs statements in this area will be reviewed and discussed. This summit is not designed to address issues such as patient care.
E-mail: RPain@nas.edu
Web site: http://www.trb.org/Calendar/Blurbs/Emergency_Medical_Services_Systems_Safety_Strategi_165766.aspx
Driven to Distraction Conference
Date:
2012-Mar-01
Location:
Toronto, Ontario
Contact:
Sara Oglestone
Manager, Marketing & Communications
Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF)
Suite 200, 171 Nepean Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0B4
Tel: (613) 238-5235
Fax: (613) 238-5292
The International Conference on Distracted Driving is being organized by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) and the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF). It will be held in Toronto, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on March 1st, 2012.
E-mail: sarao@tirf.ca
Web site: http://www.distracteddriving.ca/english/index.cfm
Intertraffic Amsterdam 2012
Date:
2012-Mar-27
Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contact:
Erik W. Dijkshoorn
Tel: +31 20 549 1212
Intertraffic Amsterdam 2012 will be held 27-30 March 2012 in Amsterdam.
E-mail: info@intertraffic.com
Web site: http://www.intertraffic.com
Intelligent Transport Systems Conference - Beyond 2012
Date:
2012-Apr-18
Location:
Melbourne, Australia
Contact:
VicRoads
1st Floor 60 Denmark Street
Kew, Victoria 3101
Fax: +613 9854 2090
The Intelligent Transport Systems Conference ’Beyond 2012’ will be held in Melbourne on 18 & 19 April 2012. The conference is aimed at introducing the concepts of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to non-ITS practioners and identifying the key challenges in applying safety and transport technology worldwide.
The ‘Beyond 2012’ Forum brings together experts from the ISO TC204 Committee for the first time in Australia to provide local road safety practitioners with a great opportunity to learn about ITS and how it can help to improve road safety.
E-mail: isotc204@roads.vic.gov.au
Web site: http://vaultcms.net/clients/acrs/srcfiles/2011-09-21-ITSOBeyond2012.pdf
2012 SAE World Congress
Date:
2012-Apr-24
Location:
Detroit, Michigan
Contact:
The 2010 World Congress will be held April 24-26, 2012 at the Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan
For full details contact:
SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
Tel: 724-776-4841
E-mail: CustomerService@sae.org
Web site: http://www.sae.org/congress/
CCMTA 2012 Annual Meeting
Date:
2012-May-06
Location:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contact:
Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators
2323 St. Laurent Blvd.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1G 4J8
Tel: 613.736.1003
Fax: 613.736.1395
CCMTA's 2012 Annual Meeting will be held on May 6-10 at the Delta Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.
E-mail: ccmta-secretariat@ccmta.ca
Web site: http://www.ccmta.ca/english/events/annualmeeting/annualmeeting.cfm
OSAID/ CYAID National Youth Leadership Conference
Date:
2012-May-09
Location:
TBA
Contact:
OSAID Inc
1930 Yonge Street, Suite 1053
Toronto, ON M4S 1Z4
Tel: 1-877-706-7243 (Toll free)
Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving (OSAID) will host the National Youth Leadership Conference May 9 - 13, 2012. The conference will bring Canadian student delegates and their adult advisors together and will offer Canadian youth the opportunity to network and share ideas and approaches regarding the fight against impaired driving. A packed weekend is planned with professional key note presentations and workshops.
E-mail: info@osaid.org
Web site: http://www.osaid.org/index.php/conferences.html
4th International Congress on Speed Reduction and Control
Date:
2012-May-17
Location:
London, England
Contact:
Brake
PO Box 548
Huddersfield
HD1 2XZ UK
Tel: +44 (0)1484 559909
Fax: +44 (0)1484 559983
Speed, the acclaimed 4th international congress on speed reduction and control will be held on Thursday, May 17 2012, from 9am to 4pm at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE) London.
This is an essential event for road safety professionals by Brake’s not for profit Road Safety Forum. The event will bring together leading academics and practitioners from around the globe to discuss developments in reducing traffic speeds to save lives and enable walking and cycling on urban and rural road networks.
E-mail: admin@brake.org.uk
Web site: http://www.speedcongress.com
4th Biennial Road Safety Forum International Congress on Speed
Date:
2012-May-17
Location:
London, UK
Contact:
Brake
Tel: 01484 559909
4th Biennial Road Safety Forum International Congress on Speed
Reducing traffic speed to save lives and increase walking and cycling
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Venue: Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE), London, UK
Time: 9am – 4pm
This is an essential event for road safety professionals, and will cover a variety of topics on the theme speed. The 2012 congress will bring together leading academics and practitioners from around the globe to discuss developments in reducing traffic speeds to save lives and enable walking and cycling on urban and rural road networks.
E-mail: admin@brake.org.uk
Web site: http://www.roadsafetyforum.org/events/annualconference.aspx
2012 CITE Conference and Annual General Meeting
Date:
2012-May-27
Location:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contact:
Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers
PO Box 81009, 47B Harbour Square
Toronto ON
M5J 2V3
Tel: (202) 289-0222
Fax: (202) 289-7722
The Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) invites all interested transportation & planning professionals to participate in CITE’s Annual Conference on May 27 through 30, 2012 at The Fort Garry Hotel, a designated National Historic Site in downtown Winnipeg.
The theme for the 2012 CITE Annual Conference is Transportation: At the Heart of It All, and our Local Arrangements Committee is working hard to deliver a leading-edge technical program combined with an exciting mix of activities and social events.
E-mail: jchilds@ite.org
Web site: http://www.cite7.org/Winnipeg2012/index.php
ITS Canada 15th Annual Conference and General Meeting
Date:
2012-Jun-10
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Contact:
ITS Canada
Tel: (905) 593-0947
ITS Canada will hold its 15th Annual Conference and General Meeting in the beautiful and historic city of Quebec, at the Chateau Frontenac Fairmont, from June 10th to June 13th, 2012. Our conference is recognized as one of the best conferences in North America to discuss developments and deployments in the field of intelligent transportation technology.
E-mail: askus@itscanada.ca
Web site: http://www.itscanada.ca/Quebec2012/confEN.htm
22nd. Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference / 22e Conférence canadienne multidisciplinaire sur la sécurité routière
Date:
2012-Jun-10
Location:
Banff, Alberta
Contact:
The 22nd. Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference will be held June 10-13, 2012 in Banff, Alberta.
La 22e Conférence canadienne multidisciplinaire sur la sécurité routière aura lieu du 10 au 13 juin 2012 à Banff, Alberta.
E-mail: info@carsp.ca
Web site: http://www.cmrsc.ca
European Conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems
Date:
2012-Jun-14
Location:
Valencia, Spain
Contact:
Lucile Murier-Mendoza
HUMANIST VCE
Head of Office
c/o INRETS - Case 24
25 avenue François Mitterrand
69675 Bron cedex - France
T: +33 4 72 14 23 15
The HUMANIST Virtual Centre of Excellence, created at the end of the HUMANIST Network of Excellence project in order to continue its activites, organises the "Third European Conference on Human Centered Design for Intelligent Transport Systems".
This conference will be held on 14 and 15 June 2012 in Valencia, Spain, and will address the following topics:
- Effects of ITS on driver behaviour and interaction with the systems
- Tools and methodologies for safety and usability assessement
- Modelling of drivers' behaviour for ITS design
- Diversity and specificity of road user groups
- Drivers' needs and acceptance of assistance functions
- Green ITS to meet new driver needs
- Field Operational Tests and Naturalistic Driving Studies
- ITS and traffic management
- Human-Centered System Integration and Product Maturity
- Generic User Interfaces for Assistance Systems
Call for Papers
Extended abstracts (2 pages) are due for 24 October 2011 and the notification of papers acceptance will be on 28 November 2011. Final complete papers are due for 30 January 2012.
E-mail: lucile.mendoza@humanist-vce.eu
Web site: http://conference2012.humanist-vce.eu/
2012 ITE Midwestern District Conference and TRB 4th Urban Street Symposium
Date:
2012-Jun-24
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Contact:
Chad Hammerl – ITE
Jacobs
Tel: 312-424-5425
The 2012 ITE Midwestern District Annual Conference will be held on June 24-27, 2012 in conjunction with the 4th Urban Street Symposium in Chicago, Illinois.
E-mail: chad.hammerl@jacobs.com
Web site: http://www.mwite-uss4-2012.org/
ACRS 2012 National Conference
Date:
2012-Aug-09
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Contact:
Australasian College of Road Safety
PO Box 198
MAWSON A.C.T. 2607 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 6290 2509
Fax: +61 (0)2 6290 0914
The 2012 Australasian College of Road Safety national conference will be held in Sydney at The Menzies Sydney Hotel on Thursday & Friday, 9 and 10 August 2012. The Conference will take road safety to the next level of knowledge and implementation and will assist in the translations of research into action in keeping with the Safe System and Decade of Action for Road Safety. The conference allows for direct interaction with presenters and is an important opportunity to network with senior practitioners and those with policy responsibilities in Australasia. This year’s theme is “A Safe System: Expanding the Reach”. While substantial reductions in road trauma have been achieved in recent decades, not all road users have benefited equally. The organisers are looking for papers including theme presentations.
E-mail: eo@acrs.org.au
Web site: http://www.acrs.org.au/activitiesandevents/
MAIREPAV7 Conference
Date:
2012-Aug-28
Location:
Auckland, New Zealand
Contact:
Petteena McOnie
Conference Management
Centre for Continuing Education
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 923 9695
Fax: +64 9 373 7419
The University of Auckland and the Local Organising Committee is very pleased to announce that the MAIREPAV7 Conference will be held August 28-30, 2012 under the auspices of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transportation Infrastructure (iSMARTi). The 2012 MAIREPAV 7 Conference will be hosted by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and held at The University of Auckland’s Business School. The MAIREPAV International conference series; an acronym for the Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, has a history of six successfully completed international conferences in the counties of Brazil, USA, Northern Ireland, China, Portugal and Italy over the last approximately 15 years.
E-mail: mairepav@auckland.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.mairepav7.co.nz/
5th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP)
Date:
2012-Aug-29
Location:
Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact:
Karel Brookhuis, Dick de Waard, and Linda Steg
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
The 5th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP) will be held on August 29-31, 2012 and will be hosted by the University of Groningen at the UMCG, University Hospital.
E-mail: info@trafficpsychologygroningen.info
Web site: http://www.icttp2012.com/
5th ESAR Conference
Date:
2012-Sep-07
Location:
Hannover, Germany
Contact:
Professor Dietmar Otte
Conference Chairman
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Accident Research Unit
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
30625 Hannover
Tel: +49 511 5326411
Fax: +49 511 5326419
E-mail: Otte.Dietmar@mh-hannover.de
ESAR is a scientific colloquium and can be seen as a platform for exchanges of information on accident research issues. Representatives from authorities as well as from medical and technical institutions will come together on 7-8 September, 2012 to discuss new research issues and exchange experiences on accident prevention and methodologies of accident reconstruction.
Main Topics of the conference:
Regulation and Consumer Aspects
Methodologies of In-Depth-Investigation
Accident Prevention and Causation
Injury Prevention and Mechanisms
Emergency Rescue Aspects
Driver Assistant Aspects
Special Topics (Vulnerable Road Users, Roadside safety, injury impairment and long term consequences)
Experts in the fields mentioned who wish to contribute to the success of the Conference, are requested to submit an abstract. The program committee will decide whether to accept a paper or a poster on the basis of the abstract. The paper will be published in a report. Authors of posters are able to present their work as short paper.
Dates:
Abstract 28-Feb-2012
Notification of authors 31-March-2012
Manuscript for Proceeding 31-May-2012
E-mail: ESAR@mh-hannover.de
Web site: http://www.esar-hannover.de/
2nd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics
Date:
2012-Sep-10
Location:
Hokkaido, Japan
Contact:
Dr. Tatsuya Ishikawa
Graduate School of Engineering
Hokkaido University
Kita 13, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628
Japan
Tel: +81(0)117066202
Fax: +81(0)117066202
TRB is cosponsoring the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics on September 10-12, 2012, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The conference will focus on geotechnical issues related to the efficient design, construction, and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure. The conference is designed to offer international experts in the field the opportunity to exchange experiences and views, and identify the needs for future research and development.
E-mail: tc3conference@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
Web site: http://congress.coop.hokudai.ac.jp/tc3conference/
2012 IRCOBI Conference
Date:
2012-Sep-12
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Contact:
IRCOBI secretariat c/o AGU Zürich
Winkelriedstrasse 27
CH-8006 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 44 251 54 65
Fax: +41 44 254 54 31
Since 1973, the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI) has organised an international conference annually. The 2012 conference will take place on September 12-14, 2012 in the city of Dublin, Ireland. Conference venue is Trinity College Dublin.
Authors are cordially invited to submit abstracts for the conference by December 19, 2011. The IRCOBI Council requires that papers offered for consideration have not been published elsewhere prior to presentation at the IRCOBI conference. Full conference papers will be indexed (SCOPUS). Abstracts, papers and presentations must be in English.
E-mail: secretariat@ircobi.org
Web site: http://www.ircobi.org/conference.php
2012 International Transportation Research Information Access Workshop
Date:
2012-Sep-12
Location:
Washington, DC
Contact:
For additional information contact:
Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
E-mail: Jennifer Rosales or Thomas Palmerlee.
TRB is sponsoring the 2012 International Transportation Research Information Access Workshop on September 12-13, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
The workshop will explore the transportation information resources and practices in key international transportation organizations in order to expand the coverage and depth of TRIS and TRID, and to uncover new and innovative best practices with respect to information sharing that can benefit and be implemented within the United States transportation community.
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.
E-mail: JRosales@nas.edu
Web site: http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/166276.aspx
Occupational Safety in Transport
Date:
2012-Sep-20
Location:
Gold Coast, Queensland
Contact:
QUT Events
Event Manager – Rachel Mortimer
Tel: +61 7 3138 9357
The Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety -Queensland (CARRS-Q) are pleased to invite you to the first international conference on Occupational Safety in Transport, to be held at the Crown Plaza Gold Coast, 20-21 September 2012.
The Conference will be a multi-disciplinary event featuring representatives from road and transport safety, aviation and watercraft, fleets, safety culture and management, construction safety and associated fields.
E-mail: osit2012@qut.edu.au
Web site: http://ositconference.com/
19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems & Services
Date:
2012-Oct-22
Location:
Vienna, Austria
Contact:
Valérie Mindlin
Ertico — ITS Europe
Tel: +32 2 400 0782
On 22-26 October 2012 ERTICO - ITS EUROPE is organising, in close cooperation with its counterpart regional organisations and the Host organisation, the 19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems & Services (ITS) in Vienna, Austria.
E-mail: v.mindlin@mail.ertico.com
Web site: http://2012.itsworldcongress.com/content/
23nd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles
Date:
2013-May-27
Location:
Seoul, South Korea
Contact:
NHTSA Headquarters
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
West Building
Washington, DC 20590
Tel: 1-888-327-4236 (Toll-Free)
The 23nd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles will be held in Seoul, South Korea, May 27-30, 2013.
E-mail:
Web site: http://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/23rd.htm