REVISED PROVISIONAL PROGRAM (MS-Word Version)

THURSDAY  18th JUNE

From 7.30 AM

REGISTRATION

8.30-10.00 AM

WELCOME

PLENARY SESSION:  TRANSPORTATION POLICY FOR THE 2^nd GREAT DEPRESSION

Chair: Kenneth Button

Jack Wells: Chief Economist, US Department of Transportation
Andreas Kopp: Lead Economist in the Department of Energy, Transport, and Water, World Bank
John Heimlich: Chief Economist, Air Transport Association of America
 

COFFEE BREAK

SCHEDULE

SESSION

TITLE

AUTHOR

10.30-12.00
AM

Inland Waterways
Rob Konings

Policy making for Water-bound Industrial Estates: Key Issues and Critical Success Factors. An Empirical Study for Flanders.

Ann Verhetsel, Tom Pauwels, Eddy Van de Voorde, Thierry Vanelslander

Barge Versus Road: How the Inland Port of Brussels Aims to Reduce the Negative Impact on the Urban Environment.

Tom van Lier, Cathy Macharis

Automobile Use
Ben Immers

Value Driven Discourse: An Analysis of the Consumer-Oriented, Manufacturer-Produced Vehicle Information

John S. Ridout, Anne E. Dunning

The Influence of the Built Environment on Vehicle and Fuel Type Choice. Evidence from the Netherlands

Kees Maat

Second-best Congestion Tolling in The Bottleneck Model with Continuous Heterogeneity in Value of Time

Vincent van den Berg, Erik T. Verhoef

Transport and Global Warming
Deb Niemeier

A Fiscal System in Favor of More Environmental Friendly Cars: Towards First Best Solutions.

Laurence Turcksin, Maaike Snelder, Bart Egeter, Jeroen Schrijver

Dealing with Climate Change – The Need for Organizational Integration

Karen Anderton

The Impact of Climate Change on Transport Networks

Piet Rietveld, Mark Koetse

Moving Around Cities
Selima Sultana

Pedestrian Trip Analysis in Transport Interfaces

Lopes Farias, Álvaro Costa, Gonçalo Gonçalves, Sandra Melo, Ana Faria

Accessibility in Commuting U.S. Network

Simone Caschili, Andrea De Montis, Germana Manca, Giancarlo Deplano

Transportation Enhancements: Federal Funding for Walkability

Andréa Livi Smith

LUNCH (SPONSORED BY VU-AMSTERDAM AND UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS)

1.30-3.00
PM

Transport and Retailing
Andreas Rau
 

Measuring Accessibility for Local Services: a Case Study to Pharmacies

Ana Leal Serpa de Vasconcelos, Tiago Alexandre Abranches Lopes Farias

Online and In-store Shopping in Advanced ICT-based Societies: Substitutes or Complements?

Giovanni Circella, Patricia L. Mokhtarian

Parcel Distribution Networks for Online Shopping Business

Hyunwoo Lim, Narushige Shiode

Accessibility and Economic Change
Peter Nijkamp
 

Accessibility Appraisal of Land-use/Transport Policy Strategies: More than just Adding up avel-Time Savings

Karst Geurs, Barry Zondag, Gerard de Jong, Michiel de Bok

Place Rank: A Flow-based Accessibility Measure

David Levinson, Ahmed El-Geneidy:

Externality Issues
Michel Beuthe

Functional Integration of Environmental Aspects in The Car Purchase Probability

Olivier Mairesse, Cathy Macharis

The Internalization of External Cost: Opportunity or Threat for Intermodal Transport?

Cathy Macharis, Ethem Pekin, Tom Van Lier

The Dynamics of the Market for Alternative Fuel Vehicles: The Swedish Case

Farideh Ramjerdi, Karin Brundell-Freij

Road Charging
Erik Verhoef

Work Start Time, Productivity and Worker Compensation: Implications for Transport Policy

Eva Gutiérrez Puigarnau, Jos van Ommeren

Issues Surrounding VMT Pricing in The United States

Maureen Sevigny

Advances in Modeling Dynamic Network User Equilibrium and Dynamic Congestion Pricing

Terry L. Friesz, Taeil Kim

COFFEE BREAK (SPONSORED BY THE WASHINGTON AIRPORT TASK FORCE)

3.30-5.00
PM

Maritime Transport
Tom Van Liere

The Portuguese Seaport Sector Development in The First Half of The 20^th Century

Ana Filipa da Conceição Prata

Improving handling of container barges in the port of Rotterdam: can we learn from past initiatives and other ports?

Rob Konings, Johan Visser, Bart Wiegmans, Ben-Jaap Pielage

Infrastructure Provisions
Kingsley Haynes

Optimal Risk Sharing in Public-private Infrastructure Provision – The Role of The Financing Sector

Knut Sandberg Eriksen

The Global Economic Crisis, Investment in Transport Infrastructure, and Economic Development

Andrew R Goetz

Why Current Travel Demand Practice is Biased Towards Highway Project and How We Should Overcome this Problem?

Yoram Shiftan

Railways
Pierre Zembri

Governance in Railway Networks

Florian Kpognon Peschelt

The Impact of Accessibility on Trans-national 
Railroad and Highway Transportation

Diego Chocarro, Susana Val, 
María Pérez

Access to Rail in Urban Areas – Can There Be Too Many Stations?

Moshe Givoni, Piet Rietveld

Planning Issues
Aura Reggiani

Standards for Accessibility – Discussion of Necessity and The Example of The German "Guidelines for the Development of Integrated Networks" (RIN)

Regine Gerike, Jürgen Gerlach, Andreas Rau

The Use of Accessibility Measures to Evaluate The Impacts of Transportation Plans: An application in Montréal, Quebec

Assumpta Cerda, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Raphael Fischler, Nik Luka, Kevin Manaugh, Paul Tetreault

Technology Dynamics and Transition Management in The Transport Sector; An Opportunity to Introduce Sustainability Oriented Concepts for Transport Policy Making

Harry Geerlings, Bart Wiegmans

FRIDAY 19th JUNE

8.30-10.00
AM

Improving Logistics
Luca Zamparini

Technical and Process Innovations in Relation with Green Logistics: Opportunities, Barriers and Best Practices

Roel Gevaers, Thierry Vanelslander, Eddy Van de Voorde

Defining Logistics Corridors in NAFTA

Clyde Mitchell-Weaver

Infrastructure Use
Alvaro Costa

Hicksian Measures of Welfare Changes for Singly-constrained Gravity Models: An Application of The Gorman Polar Form

Paolo Delle Site

Environmental Impacts of Existing Infrastructure

Julie Cidell

Give or Take: Road Charges versus Subsidies in the Management of Dynamic Congestion

Jan Rouwendal, Erik Verhoef, Jasper  Knockaert

The Cycle Mode
Jos van Ommeren

Workers Mode Choice in the Netherlands: 
The Decision to Cycle to Work and the Effect of 
Work-related aspects

Eva Heinen, Kees Maat, Bert van Wee

Cycling to Work: Modeling Meso-scale Spatial Variations within Belgium

Grégory Vandenbulcke-Plasschaert, Claire Dujardin, Isabelle Thomas

Information Systems
Harry Geerlings

Changes in The Use of Mobility Information Services and Consequences for Travel Behavior

Stefan Trommer, Wencke Krause

The Impacts of A Monitoring Assistant on Driving Behavior: Impacts on The Environment

Catarina Maria da Cunha de Eça Calhau Rolim, Tiago Alexandre Abranches Lopes Farias

Encouraging Changes Towards Sustainable Mobility Behavior: The Role of Information

Anaïs Rocci

COFFEE BREAK (SPONSORED BY EDWARD ELGAR BUBLISHING, ELSEVIER PUBLISHING, SPRINGER, AND ROUTLEDGE/TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP)

10.30-12.00
AM

Challenges of Security
Laurie Schintler

Quantifying Trade-offs Across Privacy, Liberty & Security: A Large Scale Stated Preferences Study on UK's National Rail Network

Dimitris Potoglou, Neil Robinson, Chong W. Kim, Peter Burge, Richard Warnes

Designing Airports vis-á-vis Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices

Billie H. Vincent

Transportation Security and Terrorism:  The U.S. Case

Joe Szyliowicz

Transport and Local Land Use
Kenneth Button

An Analysis of Rezoning New York City: Do They Meet the City’s Transportation Goals?

Simon Thomas McDonnell, Vicki Been, Josiah Madar

Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism

Jos van Ommeren, Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau

Developments in Technology Modeling
T. John Kim

Impact of The Introduction of New Vehicle Technologies in The Portuguese Road Transportation Sector

Patricia C. Baptist, Carla M. Silva, Tiago L. Farias

Using Metering Signals at Roundabouts with Unbalanced Flows to Improve The Traffic Condition, A Case Study of Kannik Area in  Stavanger, Norway

Marjan Mosslemi

Modeling Multi-Period Network Restoration

Timothy C. Matisziw, Tony H. Grubesic, Alan T. Murray

Environmental Improvement
Yoram Shiftan

The Role of Environmental Knowledge in Sustainable Mobility

Bradley John Flamm

Cultural Heterogeneity and The Fallacy of ‘Best Practice’: Implications for The Transition to Sustainable Mobility

James J. Macmillen

The Who's and How's of Promoting Sustainable Transport Policies in Israel

Galit Cohen-Blankshtain

LUNCH

1.30-3.00
PM

Urban Logistics
Cathy Macharis

Modeling City Logistic Systems as Dynamic Congestion Games

Terry L. Friesz, Jose Holguin-Veras, T. I. Kim, Shaun Lichter

Assessment of Urban Goods Distribution Initiatives towards Mobility and Sustainability

Sandra Maria de Brito Monteiro de Melo, Álvaro Fernando de Oliveira Costa

ICT Use in The Last Mile of Express Logistic Services - Evaluating The Effects on Urban Traffic

Julius Menge, Paul Hebes, Stephen Mueller

Transport and Tele-communications
Tony Grubesic

Internet Infrastructure and Economic Development in The European City-regions

Emmanouil Tranos

Wireless Telecommunications Tower Site Selection: The Case of  Grand Island, NY

Michael F. Ziolkowski

Wireless Location Technology – State of The Art and Exploration of Telecom Data

Peter Nijkamp, John Steenbruggen, Maria Teresa Borzacchiello, Henk Scholten

Mode Choice Analysis
Tom Pauwels

Determinants of Mode Choice for Short Trips in the USA and Germany

Ralph Buehler, Uwe Kunert

Impact of Weather on Individual Trip Demand and Mode Choice Decisions

Muhammad Sabir, Jos van Ommeren, Mark J. Koetse,Piet Rietveld

Improvement of The Behavioral Responses in The Portuguese National Transport Model

Michiel de Bok, Pedro Abrantes, Álvaro Fernando de Oliveira Costa

Air transport
Andy Goetz

The Dilemma Between Capacity Expansions and Multi-airport Systems: Empirical Evidence from the Industry’s Cost Function.

Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Juan Carlos Martín

Spatial Variations in Broadband and Air Passenger Service Provision in the United States.

Tony H. Grubesic,

The Role of Small Airports on Economic Development

Kenneth Button, Soogwan Doh, Junyang Yuan

BREAK

3.30-5.00
PM

Freight Transport
Sandra Melo

A Review of Network Representation of Intermodal and Truck-only Freight Transport System for Freight Mode/route Choice Problem

Nam Seok Kim, Van Wee Bert

Role of National Policies on the Relationship between Freight Transport and Trade

Nihan Akyelken

The Automobile
Dimitris Potoglou

At The Intersection of Private and Professional Mobility: Exploring the Impact of Company Cars on Mobility Behavior in Belgium

Astrid De Witte, Cathy Macharis

The Value of Uncertainty for Car Travelers

Paul Koster

The Effect of Employer Provided Car and Its Taxation Policy on Travel Behavior and Sustainability

Tamar Keinan, Yoram Shiftan

Transport and Urban Change
Anne Verhetsel

Specification of Demand-supply Model for the Office Market

Ghebreegziabiher Debrezion, Thomas de Graaff, Piet Rietveld

The Relationship between Mega-regions and Megapolitans:  Transportation Planning for the Two Scales

Jason S. Myers, Anne Dunning

Optimization of a GIS-Based Senior Shuttle Service: A Case Study of Calgary, Alberta, Using Volunteer Geographic Information Services

Monica Gentili, Muhammad Tubbsum, Steve McClure, Nigel Waters

Policy Challenges
Moshe Givoni

Rail Liberalization vs. Territories? The Case of Rail Freight Services in Some European Countries

Pierre Zembri

Ambivalence and Ambiguity in the Transition Toward Sustainable Mobility

Maurie Cohen

CONFERENCE DINNER (SPONSORED BY BOEING)

SATURDAY 20th JUNE

8.30-10.00
AM

Safer Transport
Joe Szyliowicz

Evaluating Road Safety Measures Using the Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis

Tessa Geudens, Fredriek Van Malderen, Cathy Macharis

Accident Registration: In Search for Best Practices

Fredriek Van Malderen, Tessa Geudens, Elena Novikova, Cathy Macharis

The Influence of Risk Perception and Attitudes on Travel Behavior

Wafa Elias

Advances in Transport Modeling
Nigel Waters

Investigating Spatial Autocorrelation of Commuting Flows

Xiaobai (Angela) Yao

Identifying Critical Interdependencies in Transport Networks:  A Graph-Theoretic and Raster-Based Approach

Laurie A. Schintler, Giacomo Galiazzo

Modeling Competitive Supply Chains Using Differential Variational Inequalities

Terry L. Friesz, Ilsoo Lee, Changhyun Kwon

Traffic Congestion
Piet Rietveld

The Role of Preference Variations in The Accessibility and Equity Effects of Congestion Pricing

Joel P. Franklin, Jonas Eliasson

Users' Benefit in Situations of Congestion

Michel Beuthe

Transport and Urban Structures
Ahmed El-Geneidy

City Network Approach in Germany: Spatial Structure and Job Accessibility

Aura Reggiani, Pietro Bucci, Peter Nijkamp, Anette Haas

Effect of Gas Prices on Journey-to-work: An Exploratory Analysis of Northern Virginia Commuter Traffic Based on Kolmogorov Entropy, Fisher Information and Max-entropy

Rajendra Kulkarni, Kingsley Haynes, Roger Stough, Laurie Schintler

Urban Growth Cycles and Commuting Transition: Past, Present and the Future

Selima Sultana, Joe Weber

BREAK

10.30-12.00
AM

Challenges in Logistics
Terry Friesz

A Heuristic Approach to the Multi-objective General Vehicle Routing Problem

David Escuin Finol, Juan Antonio Sicilia Montalvo, Emilio Larrode Pellicer

Multimodal Location-Based Concierge Service Problems: Model Formulation and Solution Algorithms

Tschangho John Kim, Seungmo Kang

Transport and Land Use Development
Anne Dunning

Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modeling and the Implementation of Policies for Sustainable Mobility: MARS-Bari

Giovanni CircellaI, Paul Pfaffenbichler

Local Intentions, Global Challenges

Deb Niemeier

The Multi-actor, Multi-criteria Analysis (MAMCA) for Long Term Decision Making in the Field of Transport and Mobility: the Case of Flanders

Cathy Macharis, Astrid De Witte, Laurence Turcksin

Urban Public Transport
Knut Eriksen

High Quality Bus Systems and Public Transport Network Design Planning Advice for Small and Medium Sized Urban Regions

Gustav Nielsen

Image and Public Transport

Jaco Berveling

The Accuracy of Transit System Ridership Forecasts and Capital Cost Estimates

Matthew Hardy, Kenneth Button, Soogwan Doh, Junyang Yuan, Xin Zhou

Network Analysis
Clyde Mitchell-Weaver

Architecture for Robust Network Design

Lambertus H. Immers, Maaike Snelder, Bart Egeter, Jeroen Schrijver

The Value of Reliability and its Relevance in Transport Networks

Luca Zamparini, Aura Reggiani

Turning Points in Network Development?

Marina van Geenhuizen

LUNCH

1.00-2.00
PM

NECTAR GENERAL ASSEMBLY