Position your organisation at the centre of a leading international transport conference and engage directly with decision-makers shaping the future of the sector.
Your participation is what makes this conference a leading platform for advancing research, fostering collaboration, and translating ideas into real-world outcomes. We greatly appreciate the time and expertise you bring to this important conversation.
Infrastructure remains fundamental to enabling transport systems to perform under increasing pressure. This topic explores advancements in structural design and materials innovation, alongside the challenges of managing high-load, high-volume networks. Submissions should consider how infrastructure can be planned, designed and managed to improve resilience, extend asset life and support reliable performance in complex and changing operating environments.
Data is central to how modern transport systems operate and evolve. This topic focuses on how data can be effectively collected, integrated and applied to improve operational efficiency, strengthen risk management and enhance safety outcomes. Submissions should demonstrate how data-driven approaches are supporting better decision-making, improving asset performance and enabling more responsive and adaptive transport systems.
As transport systems become more complex, the way they are designed and operated must evolve to deliver greater efficiency. This topic explores how connected and automated vehicles, data-enabled systems and changing travel demand are reshaping network performance and user behaviour. Submissions should highlight how system and task design can improve productivity, support modal shifts and enable more efficient, integrated transport outcomes.
Creating safer transport systems requires a shift in how safety is understood, designed and governed. This topic examines the role of evolving user behaviours, innovations in assets and vehicles, and approaches to managing distraction both inside and outside the vehicle environment. Submissions should explore how governance, technology and culture can work together to deliver safer outcomes and support a more proactive, system-wide approach to transport safety.
Turning strategy into action is critical to helping transport systems thrive in complex times. This topic focuses on real-world examples that demonstrate how challenges are being addressed through practical implementation. Submissions should highlight measurable outcomes across areas such as safety, resilience, efficiency, sustainability, workforce capability and financing models, providing insight into what works and how it can be applied at scale.
We are seeking submissions that demonstrate practical application, innovation and measurable outcomes. Abstracts should align with the conference theme and show how complexity can be translated into opportunity through effective enabling mechanisms.
Submissions should focus on real-world impact and provide insights that can be applied across different contexts.
We welcome contributions describing R&D activities that develop new knowledge and methods to solve transport problems or describing case studies, where new approaches have delivered improved transport outcomes.
Practitioners can contribute to the conference in two ways.
Submit an extended abstract (500–800 words) and deliver a presentation. The extended abstract should clearly convey the key messages and contribution of the work. Reviewers may suggest improvements for clarity or request additional information. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
Submit a checked abstract (350 words), followed (if accepted) by a full technical paper (2,500–5,000 words, maximum 12 pages including figures and tables) and deliver a presentation. The initial abstract must provide enough information for the conference team to assess the potential contribution of the full paper. Full papers will undergo formal peer review, with feedback provided for refinement. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Reviewers may nominate outstanding papers for special recognition at the Conference Dinner.
