ETC 2025 - TEFA Call for Papers

Our use of transport continues to evolve as governments encourage changes in travel behaviours to meet net zero goals, leading to some pushback against measures affecting personal mobility. At the same time, the need for improved resilience, aging infrastructure and financial constraints also have major implications for how we raise the requisite finance and evaluate investments and policies to ensure equity and maintain mobility for everyone.

The European Transport Conference will once again be at the forefront of discussing how to address these challenges and opportunities. To achieve that we need your unique insights and expertise, at whatever stage of your career you are at, and we especially welcome abstracts that:

• Compare and contrast appraisal techniques and financing options across Europe
• Provide ex-post evaluation of transport policies or investments
• Assess cross-border investments and their geopolitical impacts
• Show how AI is being used in appraisals and to inform decision making
• Discuss the role of economics in informing decision-makers and the public about mobility and sustainability trade-offs
• Consider the private sector's role in funding transport and lessons from past investments
• Explore whether transport appraisals should be weighted to ensure equitable outcomes
• Present evidence on the value people place on different aspects of their journey
• Examine national or regional values of time and the case for each approach
• Discuss how transport costs should be shared among taxpayers, users, and beneficiaries
• Evaluate how resilience should be considered in appraisals
• Investigate the impact of increased remote work on agglomeration 
• Report progress in internalising external transport costs
• Explore how to monetise environmental benefits 

Your contributions are vital to shaping the future of transport. We look forward to your abstracts and the diverse perspectives they will bring!

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.