Urban Transport 2019 - Call for Papers

25th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment

25 – 27 June 2019

Aveiro, Portugal

Introduction

The International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has successfully been reconvened for 25 years, always attracting a wide international spread of delegates. It is well-established as the premier event of its type.
The continuing requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environment has added to the increasing success of this annual meeting which attracts international delegates from many different countries. Innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice, which highlights the importance of the meeting. Moreover, there is a growing need for integration with telecommunications systems and IT applications in order to improve safety, security and efficiency. The Meeting also addresses the need to solve important pollution problems associated with urban transport in order to achieve a healthier environment.
The variety of topics covered by the conference reflects the complex interaction of the urban transport systems with their environment and the need to establish integrated strategies. The aim is to arrive at optimal socio-economic solutions while reducing the negative environmental impacts of current transportation systems.
The conference started in Southampton in 1995; continuing in Barcelona (1996); Acquasparta, Italy (1997); Lisbon (1998); Rhodes (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Lemnos, Greece (2001); Seville (2002); Crete (2003); Dresden (2004); Algarve (2005); WIT Campus in the New Forest (2006); Coimbra (2007); Malta (2008); Bologna (2009); Limassol (2010); Pisa (2011), A Coruña (2012), Kos (2013), Algarve (2014), Valencia (2015), Crete (2016) and Rome (2017). All papers are included in the WIT Transactions and archived in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary at www.witpress.com/elibrary, where they are permanently and easily available to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Urban Transport 2019. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Urban transport planning and management
• Urban strategies
• Mobility and public space
• Smart city transport
• Urban impacts of public transport
• City logistics
• Public transport systems including public policies and governance
• Environmental impact
• Economic and social impact
• Safety and security
• Dangerous goods transport
• Travel behaviour studies
• Traffic control
• Traffic accidents
• Transportation modelling and simulation
• Infrastructure development
• Intelligent and advanced transport systems
• Mass transport strategies
• Freight transport
• Railway systems
• Port and city
• Innovative electric transportation
• Eco-mobility transport systems
• Integrated network systems including inter-modal transport systems
• Traditional and alternative fuels and energy

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ECOSUD 2019 - Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development

19 – 21 June 2019

Valencia, Spain

Introduction

ECOSUD 2019 is the 12th International Conference in the well-established series on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. The meetings provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on different aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, including physical sciences and modelling.
The aim of the Conference is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between scientists, engineers, socio-economic specialists and other professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world. The conference seeks to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics. A current area of particular interest is the study of distributed systems in order to avoid transport recovery and waste reduction.
This successful series first started in Peñíscola, Spain (1997) and continued in Lemnos, Greece (1999); Alicante, Spain (2001); Siena, Italy (2003); Cadiz, Spain (2005); Coimbra, Portugal (2007); Chianciano Terme, Italy (2009), Alicante, Spain (2011), Bucharest, Romania (2013), Valencia, Spain (2015) and Cadiz, Spain (2017).
The papers presented at this conference as well as all preceding meetings in the series have been permanently stored in the Wessex Institute eLibrary as WIT Transactions (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily accessible to the scientific community. They contribute a whole record of the state of the art in ecosystems and related fields. The conference books are produced in paper and digital format and widely distributed throughout the world.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at ECOSUD 2019. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Energy systems and the environment
• Sustainable development and planning
• Ecosystem modelling
• Environmental innovative approaches
• Natural resources management
• Protection and mitigation
• Economic and social issues
• Climate change and adaptation
• Knowledge dissemination
• Social responsibility
• Environmental monitoring and assessment
• Sustainability indicators, monitoring and assessment
• Urban agriculture
• Environmental risk management
• Ecosystems recovery
• Complex systems in ecology
• Ecosystems networks
• Learning from nature
• Biomass issues
• Integrated assessment tools

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ERES 2019 - Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures

5 - 7 June 2019

Seville, Spain

Introduction

ERES 2019 is the twelfth international conference in the series on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures organised by the Wessex Institute. The Meeting provides a unique forum for the discussion of basic and applied research in the various fields of earthquake engineering relevant to the design of structures.
Major earthquakes and associated effects such as tsunamis continue to stress the need to carry out more research on those topics. The problems will intensify as population pressure results in buildings in regions of high seismic vulnerability. A better understanding of these phenomena is required to design earthquake resistant structures and to carry out risk assessment and vulnerability studies.
The problem of protecting the built environment in earthquake-prone regions involves not only the optimal design and construction of new facilities, but also the upgrading and rehabilitation of existing structures including heritage buildings. The type of highly specialized retrofitting employed to protect the built heritage is an important area of research.
This conference will address these problems continuing to expand on the development of previous meetings in the series. Papers presented at ERES are an invaluable record of the state of the art in this field. Most of them are now freely available on the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are a permanent record demonstrating the quality of the research presented at the ERES conference series.
The conference began in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1997, followed by Catania, Italy (1999); Malaga, Spain (2001); Ancona, Italy (2003); Skiathos, Greece (2005); Bologna, Italy (2007), Cyprus (2009), Tuscany, Italy (2011), A Coruña, Spain (2013), Opatija, Croatia (2015) and Alicante, Spain (2017).

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at ERES 2019. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Seismic hazard and tsunamis
• Building performance during earthquakes
• Vulnerability
• Earthquake prediction
• Seismic isolation and energy dissipation
• Performance based design
• Experimental studies
• Dynamic analysis
• Passive protection systems
• Case studies
• Numerical analysis
• Monitoring and early warning systems
• Lifelines and resilience
• Forensic engineering
• Safety engineering
• Heritage structures
• Earthquakes and landslides
• Liquefaction
• Innovative technologies
• Paraseismic devices

Find out more on the conference webpage.