ETC 2025 - GTiT Call for Papers

Global transport system and transport policies are influenced by key drivers such as demography, economy, society, technology, environment and politics. Different trends in these areas such as individualization, urbanization, sustainability or climate change may change the functioning of the transport system profoundly.

For the 2025 conference we have identified five areas of interest that we are especially interested in attracting, highlighting and discussing:

• Transport system sustainability and resilience - in view of climate change, energy, network impacts of current geopolitical crises, influence of large global event organisation (e.g. Olympics, major sport, cultural or political events), national and local temporary incidents and long-lasting challenges.
• Rediscovering transport policy - focusing on approach, methodology, planning, project outcomes and assessment, involving artificial intelligence (AI) and state-of-the-art technology as well as lessons learnt in the process.
• Gender, race, age and disability related equity - empowering women, promoting underrepresented races, nationalities, minorities and young population in transport, facilitating ageing and disabled population accessibility and inclusion, as well as other social-, racial- and gender-related mobility, migrations, diversity and workforce issues.
• Pan-European and national sustainable transport plans - policy and practice in restricting climate change and transport related air pollution and GHG emissions, promoting decarbonisation, alternative and long-term feasible transport energy sources, aiming for improved environment, population health and global well-being.
• Transport safety and security issues - with a focus on actual and potential physical and cyber security risks, incidents and challenges.

The GTiT committee seeks discussion with policy makers, ideas from academics, researchers and practitioners to understand the trends and propose effective solutions to imminent impacts and envisage their consequences for the global transport system.

Important notice:
Each year we receive more abstracts than can be accommodated in the programme. If your abstract is selected, please be aware that others have been rejected, that the ETC organisation has invested time in devising an attractive and coherent programme and that delegates use this programme to decide to come to the conference. 

Before submitting your abstract, please make sure at least one of the authors can attend the conference to present the paper or poster, that finances are available for conference fee, travel and accommodation costs and that you have/will obtain the approval needed (from management or client) to present the work in public at the time of the conference. If your paper is accepted, you will be required to book and pay for the conference by the end of June.

We do understand that sometimes circumstances can force authors to withdraw. If so, you would help us by informing us as soon as possible. Last minute withdrawals or no-shows negatively affect the conference experience of your fellow transport professionals.