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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Transportation planning and policy

Published: 08 January 2018

Call for Papers on “Current and Emerging Research in Transport”
RGS with IBG Annual International Conference, 28-31 August 2018, Cardiff, UK.
Session sponsored by Transport Geography Research Group.

Session convenors:
Deborah Mifsud (University of Malta) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Freke Caset (Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Samuel Nello-Deakin (University of Amsterdam) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We are inviting abstract submissions from postgraduate students to a TGRG sponsored session at the 2018 RGS IBG Annual International Conference titled “Current and Emerging Research in Transport”. 

This session is aimed at postgraduate students conducting research in any aspect of transport geography. It's an open-themed session, but we particularly welcome papers which address the wider conference theme (Geographical Landscapes/Changing Landscapes of Geography) from a transport perspective. Our event hosts a wide range of presentations and is always well attended. Current and emerging research in transport provides a relaxed, supportive atmosphere for postgraduates at any stage of their research to present their work in progress, to share ideas and to discuss synergies.

Every year the TGRG rewards a postgraduate prize for the best postgraduate contribution in any TGRG session at the RGS-IBG 2018 Conference. If you wish to enter for the prize, you need to submit a full paper prior to the conference. Please get in touch with the TGRG postgraduate representatives (see session convenors above) for more information. 

If you interested in presenting a paper in this session,  please submit to the session convenors the following information by Friday 9 February 2018: 

Title, authors, affiliations and addresses, presenter and abstract (300 words). 

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies

Published: 11 December 2017

The Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning reviews typical steps in the city-level climate action planning process in light of a proposed set of globally applicable principles. These principles, shown below, developed through a robust and open multi-stakeholder process, support local officials, planners and stakeholders in climate action planning. Such plans aim to help cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adopt low emission development trajectories, as well as adapt to the impacts of climate change and build local climate resilience.

These Guiding Principles are intended to be applied flexibly, together with more detailed ‘how to’ manuals, to help cities more effectively play their role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilience.

Toolkit

The intention now (May 2016) is to apply these GP in selected cities, i.e., to assess how closely ongoing climate action planning processes in those cities adhere to the GP, and to offer suggestions as needed to strengthen those processes. At the same time we plan to capture feedback on the Version 1.0 of the GP, with the aim of refining those Principles in the future as need be. As with the GP initiative as a whole, such city-level exercises should serve a broader aim of facilitating knowledge and information sharing amongst engaged partners, so as to promote strengthened, expanded and more consistent climate action planning in cities around the world.

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Transportation planning and policy

Published: 15 October 2017

The mobil.TUM 2018 International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport will be held on June 13th- 14th 2018 in Munich, Germany, on the topic 'URBAN MOBILITY – SHAPING THE FUTURE TOGETHER' organized by the Focus Area Mobility & Transportation Systems Technical University of Munich (TUM).

CALL FOR PAPERS:
200 years ago the bicycle was invented – a technological innovation replacing horses… 
150 years ago the railway opened up new horizons – including rapid urban growth... 
100 years ago the car started its success story – with benefits and challenges along the way... 
50 years ago the limits to growth were discovered – initiating the aspiration for sustainability... 
10 years ago smartphones appeared – enabling new mobility services and the sharing economy... 

What will happen to urban mobility in the next 10, 50, 100 years, and beyond? Following the quote “The future is not predetermined and waiting to happen – it is ours to shape” (Lyons & Urry, 2006), we understand that our situation in the future largely depends on decisions we make today. We invite you to share your ideas on how to develop urban mobility for the future, to give your contribution, today. The mobil.TUM International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport is a platform for practitioners and researchers to meet and exchange their knowledge and experiences. In TUM's anniversary year 2018 – also the 10th anniversary of mobil.TUM – the conference will join forces from across different thematic fields, organized by four professorships of the Focus Area Mobility & Transportation Systems at TUM. International keynote speakers will provoke the debate, and posters, presentations, as well as discussions and interactive networking formats will enable inspiration from the latest innovations and explore new directions for shaping the future of urban mobility.

Key topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• Transport Innovation and its Effects on Urban Systems ICT-enabled mobility services, Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), integrated mobility services, Mobility as a Service (MaaS), personalized ITS-technology, automation and self-organization in traffic flow and control, cloud-computing and internet of things applied in ITS, … 
• Modelling and Simulation of Urban Mobility Travel behavior research, integrated land-use and transport modelling, travel demand modelling, microsimulation of traffic, environmental impact modelling, urban freight modelling, modelling in a multimodal environment, systems thinking and system modelling, … 
• Transportation Data Analysis Big data in transportation, new opportunities and risks in data acquisition, fair data management, urban transportation data analytics, progress and effects of digitalization in transport systems, measuring, analyzing and mitigating environmental impacts, … 
• Strategies for Sustainable Mobility Systems Accessibility planning, integrated development of transport nodes and urban places, behavioral changes and retro-fitting of infrastructure and services, promotion of livable urban spaces, non-motorized transportation, transport and land-use policies, … 
• Governance of Urban Mobility Governance and networks, policy analysis, assessment and evaluation in urban mobility, funding schemes, participation and citizen involvement, co-creation of innovative solutions, …

Submission of proposals

Please submit your extended abstracts (1,000 – 1,500 words) including title, authors, affiliation, contact information of corresponding author, and keywords using the conference website www.mobil-tum.de Extended abstracts should include:

• Problem statement 
• Research objectives 
• Methodological approach 
• (Expected) results 

Please use the template for extended abstracts provided on the conference website under submissions.
Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to optionally submit a full paper by March 31th, 2018 (4,000 – 6,000 words). Full papers handed in on time will benefit from a peer-review by the end of May. Contributions will be included in the conference either as a presentation in the plenary sessions (max. 20 minutes per presentation), as a poster (DIN A0) to be presented and discussed in a dedicated poster session, or as part of a lightning talk session. Please indicate your preference with the abstract submission.

After the conference, authors will be invited to update their papers or abstracts based on the reviews and conference discussions and send a final version by July 15th, 2018, for publication in Transportation Research Procedia (Elsevier). Selected papers that have been reviewed particularly favourably are intended to be published in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: November 30th, 2017 Acceptance notification: January 30th, 2018 Full paper submission (optional): March 31st, 2018 Final paper submission for publication: July 15th, 2018

Contributions from diverse backgrounds, regions, and cultures are very welcome. We will accept proposals for lectern presentations, poster presentations, and a lightning talk session, where research ideas and works in progress can be discussed. Criteria for acceptance are:

• Relevance for the conference’s general topic and focus on selected topic areas 
• Scientific quality in terms of methodologies applied and data handling 
• Usefulness for practice supported by successful implementations and/or relevance for scientific progress 

Additional workshops and conference-related activities will take place on Friday (June 15th) – details will be posted on the conference website soon. The conference will be accompanied by a small exhibition. 


Venue
June 13 th -14th, 2018 GALILEO, Munich (Garching), Germany www.galileo-tum.de

Fees
Attendees: 390 € Students*: 190 € *certificate of enrolment required
The registration fee covers the costs for admission to the conference, lunch and coffee breaks during the 2 days of the conference, and the conference dinner. Please visit our conference website for further information and news: www.mobil-tum.de 

Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Antoniou
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fritz Busch
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Moeckel
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gebhard Wulfhorst

Benjamin Büttner, Emmanouil Chaniotakis, Karin Gairing, Silja Hoffmann, Matthew Okrah, Ursula Uhse

Conference contact: Maximilian Pfertner This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.mobil-tum.de

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Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Published: 03 October 2017

THE URBANIZATION of (IN)JUSTICE

Public spaces in uncertain geographies

The University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture invites you to the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia in the period between 16th and 18th May 2018.This meeting is organized in parallel to the Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology conference, “Urban Morphology in South-Eastern Mediterranean Cities: challenges and opportunities”. The purpose of this meeting is to unfold, discuss, rethink and challenge prevailing discourses about“just” or “unjust” processes of urban transformation from the perspective of public space.We look forward to a critical and constructive debate on the research, policy and public agendas about this issue to contribute to the academic and public discussions on the role of public space to achieve “just” cities.

Theme. Over the past few decades, cities around the world have become radically and rapidly changed in the sense of scale, scope and complexity. This is mainly due to the increasing mobility of people, goods and information as a result of technological developments, liberalization of economic systems, economic fluctuations, wars, and climate change. These changes challenge the processes of production of built environment and create conflicts and contestations between different urban groups, who have contradicted claims on the decisions and processes influencing urban transformation.

Such situation brought the discussions on just/unjust urban transformation processes in urban research, policy and public debates.It raised questions on privileging the interests of affluent urban groups, while disadvantaging vulnerable communities. We see public space as central in these debates, as possible facilitator of a more just process of urban transformation.Public space is able to embrace different political, economic and cultural manifestations of urban groups, which allow them to voice their rights on the city. Public space can also submit encounters and interactions between different urban actors and perform as a place of negotiation between them. Public space is potentially able to promote fair allocations of wealth, resources, benefits and opportunities.

Different views on public space can provide us ways of thinking to develop planning and design strategies, policy measures, civil initiatives, and social movements to oppose processes of unjust urban transformation. Yet, in the context of a rapid-shifting economic, political and social reality, it is more and more urgent for critical re-thinking of public space as facilitator of urban justice.

The aim of this conference is to share international and interdisciplinary perspectives of public space as a facilitator of (in)just urban transformation processes from various angles based on practical and/or theoretical work. We particularly welcome topics such as:

• Public space in relation to urban just and unjust conditions, today and through time
• Public space and equity, public space and diversity, public space, identity, spatiality and power
• Re-thinking public space through the connections between notions of justice, social relations, and spatial form
• Responses to unjust urban patterns in form of emerging practices of self-organization and negotiations of difference in cities’ public spaces
• Role of actors in the production of public space.
• Everyday practices of establishing spatial justice and injustice
• Creation of subjectivities in or with public space
• Politics of public space

The meeting will be dedicated to the presentations, discussions and roundtables of high quality work of scholars and practitioners. We are interested in contributions from urban studies, urban planning, urban design, architecture, social geography, anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cultural studies, political science, history and others. Paper presentations will be followed by roundtable discussions to consolidate the ideas, concerns and recommendations presented during the meeting, and set the basis for further practical and theoretical explorations.

Format

The meeting will combine various formats of exchange including the keynote speeches of CyNUM and PSUC, presentations from the contributions to the call for papers, field visits on the second day and a workshop on the third day.The workshop participants will have the opportunity to visit locations within Nicosia in collaboration with local stakeholders and practitioners, to reflect on the case studies visited and to discuss, exchange views and propose ideas with the purpose of sharing resources and producing knowledge on contemporary public space concerns.

Abstract submission

Abstracts of paper proposals (300 words) should address at least one of the topics outlined in the call for papers (Please check the guidelines for the abstract at the conference website. Speakers should also submit a short biography (100 words).Submissions will ONLY be accepted online through www.easyacademia.org, where participants may register and instantly submit their abstracts using the provided template.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by the Conference Committee. Final acceptance will be based upon review of the full-length short paper.Full papers will be published in an electronic version in a form of a conference book of papers. The authors of the selected papers will be encouraged to prepare their contributions in the form of scientific articles for the publication in the thematic issue of a scientific journal.

Registration

To register for the conference please visit the conference’s website. Participation in the AESOP TG meeting with all its related activities is free of charge. AESOP TG delegates can also attend the CyNUM conference welcome reception and the keynote speeches free of charge. Moreover, coffee breaks are offered.

AESOP TG delegates, who would like to participate in the whole CyNUM conference and receive the full package and documentation, will have to register for the conference. AESOP TG delegates can also register for the conference farewell dinner and/or the conference field visits separately at an additional cost.

Important Dates

Call for papers: October 1st, 2017

Abstract submission: December 5th, 2017

Acceptance notification: January15th, 2017

Author registration and payment: February 15th, 2018

Full paper submission: April 30th, 2018

Conference: 16th -18th May 2018

Publication of proceedings: July 2018

The Venue

The location of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean offers a unique venue at the confluence of three continents and a multitude of cultures that face unique urban challenges. Throughout its history, Cyprus has been undergoing various dynamics related to refugees, migration and social fragmentation, which have led to changes in urban spaces and everyday social life, thus turning it to fertile ground for collaborative ideas among public space scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds. Nicosia, the last divided capital of Europe, offers an ideal location to discuss the issues addressed in this conference. As a city with a prolonged history of conflict, internal refugees’ displacements, migration and tourists’ flows, economic fluctuations and rapid, often abrupt urban transformations, it serves as a laboratory to observe and explore the production, development and the role of public spaces in unstable and contested contexts. More information about the venue is available at the conference website.

Contacts

For further information on AESOP TG PSUC Nicosia meeting please contact:

Nadia Charalambous (local host Cyprus), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Organising Committee

Nadia Charalambous, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus.

Andreas Savvides, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus.

Ceren Sezer, Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Nikolai Roskamm, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning,FH Erfurt, Germany.

Scientific Committee

Ali Madanipour, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Department, Newcastle University.

Wendy Pullan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Tarek Osseiran, United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat).

Nilly Harag, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel.

Christine Mady, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Beirut.

Elena Konstantinidou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Vítor Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal.

Related Links
The general TG blog at the AESOP page

The TG wiki page: http://publicspaces-urbancultures.wikispaces.com/

The TG FB page: https://www.facebook.com/AESOPPSUC/

The TG contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CyNUM2018 conference: http://cyprusconferences.org/cynum2018/